We’re really sorry we haven’t written anything in a while. We were far too busy finding a dictionary to look up the word “self-flagellation” (apparently not one TechSpoof writer actually knew where a bookstore was) and paying interns to watch the live coverage of the TC40. After minutes and minutes of thought, here is a mashup for your viewing pleasure.

American Heritage Dictionary - self-flag·el·la·tion (sělf’flāj’ə-lā’shən)
n.

1. The act of severely criticizing oneself.
2. The act of punishing oneself.
3. A Web 2.0 Conference, ostensibly designed to promote new companies that instead degrades into “This Month In Techcrunch”.

We were also considering adding this definition to Wikipedia entry for redundancy, but we didn’t want Wikiscanner narking us out.