DragonCon just keeps getting better and better. As a long time volunteer staff member, I picked out the best and worst of the year. Read the whole thing at Associated Content..I think I may have given it to them exclusively.

DragonCon, the country's largest Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Media convention, was held in Atlanta
over Labor Day weekend. It was the Con's 21st birthday, and boy, did we have a party!
OK, so there were some problems with people getting their badges; there are always long lines if you don't volunteer and get your badge that way, and even people who pre-order may have to stand in line when there are over 30,000 people coming in. And yes, it was a lot of complicated walking from the Hyatt through the Marriott to the Hilton and back to get to various events. I've worked the Con for 11 years now and I got lost twice. Couldn't remember which hotel I was in. And yes, the fire marshall closed the escalators quite a few times, and we got stranded on the concourse level for ten or fifteen minutes, too. But, despite all that...