Good for you, Lisa! I think you handled the situation very well, and the feelings you had afterwards were quite natural. While it may be true that these men are experts (or maybe not) in their fields, they have not chosen to move forward with the times, expand their ranges of expertise to include today's tools. I can't imagine that they were terribly thrilled to have been put on the spot by a young journalist, especially a young female Israeli journalist, who politely pokes holes in their knowledge and theories. It sounds like you did an excellent job in raising important issues that would clearly not have been raised otherwise. In my opinion, a panel of this type is doing a disservice to observers by focusing on such a limited aspect of the Middle Eastern media, especially when the panelists are a homogenous group of older men who aren't even remotely aware of the significance of blogging as both a media and bridge-building tool. By the way, the blog entries that you've been posting from the conference have been excellent - both interesting and thought-provoking. I look forward to hearing more. Thanks for taking the time to write about your experiences in London.