I'm not sure about the lack of filk... I've only done Readercon once, and we were staying off-site so I missed the evening stuff. Plus I tend to go to the filking to find you and Batya and LMG and so on, so if you're not there I don't look for it. But we can check once Noreascon is over and Readercon gets going again (they're taking a year break because so many of their people are working on the WorldCon).

One of the best panels I ever went to was at that Readercon, and the author Coffee Klatches were great. I did find that I missed the broader array of perspectives that having some of those other elements of fandom brings, but the sheer intellectual freshness was very very shiny. :)