As I start to write this post (just before lunch here on the East Coast), BlogHer 2008 has just started in San Francisco. Their site has the full agenda organized by date and time. Here's an outline of the sessions, organized by track:
Who We Are
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Introversion, Blogging and BlogHer
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Race and Gender: What are the lessons of 2008
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Blogging with a Global Perspective
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Women Without Children and the Blogosphere
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"Coming Out" via Blog
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Can You Take Back Naked Blogging?
What We Do
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Taking Care of Business
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DIY Content Syndication and Promotion
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Writing Workshop
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Pursuing Your Passion Never Gets Old
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There's More to Monetization than Advertising
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Blog to Book Redux
What We Believe
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Top-notch Political Opinion Commentary
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How To Take Names and Be Taken Seriously as a Political Blogger
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Progressives
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Conservatives
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Beautiful Blogging and Positive Posting
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Tools for Online Fundraising and Activism
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Blogging Community as Healing Force
How We Communicate
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FAQs for Beginning Bloggers
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Why Bloggers (Even Non-Programmers) Benefit from Participating in Open Source Projects
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Video Blogging
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Building Traffic via Content and Community
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Photography
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Open Source Participation: How to advance to the next level
MommyBlogging
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Is MommyBlogging Still a Radical Act?
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Public Parenting & Privacy
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Mirrors: Ours, the Media's, Our Cultures' and Our Kids'
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The Commercial Momosphere: Policies, Ethics and Outreach
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Blogging About Our Children with Special Needs
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When the Road To Motherhood Is Anything But Smooth: Infertility, Adoption and Miscarriage Bloggers
Blogging Birds of a Feather Meet-Ups
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Green/Social Change
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Food/Entertaining
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Style/Fashion
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Travel
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Personal Finance/Career
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Sex & Relationships
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Home/Garden
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Crafts/DIY
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BlogHims
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Health/Fitness
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Queer BlogHer
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Boomers & Beyond
Room of Your Own
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Entertainment Bloggers
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Twenty-Something Bloggers
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The "Mother Load"
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MidlifeBloggers.com
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Funding & Incubation Opportunities
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Women Entrepreneurs
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Talking About War & Peace
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Who Better Serves Women Like You: Obama or McCain?
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BFD Blog
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Feminism & Gender Meet-ups
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PhotoWalk
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Chicago Bloggers
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Women of Color Bloggers
By the way: the conference sold out early, so if you'd like to attend next year then be sure to plan ahead.