I attended yet another social networking panel this evening. It was the Churchill Club's event called Blogging and Social Networking: Who Cares? The panel was a cast of thousands, including such social software panel mainstays as Ross Mayfield, Marc Canter and Dan Gillmor. At this point I have seen enough of these panels to say with a fair degree of certainty that they are all the same. So in an effort to save you a bunch of time and aggravation, here's a transcription of this evening's event. I believe that it is essentially a transcription of all past and all future social software panels, so read it and free yourself of the need to ever attend such an event yourself:

"Welcome blah blah blah relationship capital blah blah blah social contracts blah blah blah media businesses blah blah blah identify the rabid fans of the iPod blah blah blah utility media blah blah blah this is the future of the web blah blah blah RSS blah blah blah Spam blah blah blah killer app blah blah blah business model blah blah blah advertising model blah blah blah is this a product or a feature blah blah blah a feature doesn't make a business blah blah blah leveraging relationships blah blah blah decentralized system blah blah blah privacy concerns blah blah blah profiling people blah blah blah social networking is blogging dumbed down for the masses blah blah blah tribecaster blah blah blah widget blah blah blah what is the connection between social networks and blogs blah blah blah the most efficient media platform ever blah blah blah read-write, not read-only blah blah blah all software is about people blah blah blah put this stuff in context blah blah blah monetizing relationships blah blah blah a new dimension to the web blah blah blah I met my wife on Match.com blah blah blah optimizing personal relationships and corporate relationships blah blah blah enhancing social capital blah blah blah wiki-based community blah blah blah collective action, common good blah blah blah we own these profiles blah blah blah it's compelling, it's sticky blah blah blah old media types blah blah blah disconnected media silo blah blah blah FOAF blah blah blah Blogger and TypePad blah blah blah building the network is trivial blah blah blah it's an enabling technology blah blah blah driving value blah blah blah after you've made the friends, there's nothing to do blah blah blah I've been monetizing my social relationships since my bar mitzvah blah blah blah have a persistent identity blah blah blah a lot of unintended consequences blah blah blah a mesh of meshs blah blah blah a meta network blah blah blah inner circle blah blah blah transparency is starting to have its cost blah blah blah valuable information blah blah blah composite identity blah blah blah connecting people blah blah blah transaction intent on both sides blah blah blah decentralizing force blah blah blah about wanting to be heard blah blah blah about wanting to be loved blah blah blah ego driven blah blah blah 50 years of passive media consumption blah blah blah network diversity is good blah blah blah reputation management blah blah blah open standards and open platforms win always blah blah blah it's group voice blah blah blah social context blah blah blah the entire web is a social network blah blah blah join me in thanking tonight's moderators blah blah blah goodnight."