I wrote that blog post. For the past 17 years I have worked for David Pizer, the long-time cryonicist and successful entrepeneur profiled in the Wall Street Journal article in 2006 about cryonic revival trusts:

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113780314900652582-3NZCCoZBW7UHDmouEOrkzkalkfY_20060129.html

Pizer also served as Alcor's treasurer and as a board member in the 1990's. Because of my long-time friendship and association with Mr. Pizer, occasionally I hear inside information about Alcor's problems, some of which also happens to make the news and become part of the public record.

Regarding Alcor's conferences: Considering that I live about 75 minutes from Scottsdale, I could have attended Alcor's last two conferences. But I didn't see the point of spending money to hear recycled nonsense about Drexlerian nanotechnology I could have heard 15 years ago. It increasingly looks like Drexler's vision (could we call it "pseudo-technology"?) has led cryonics into a blind alley, an alley cryonics organizations need to back out of and onto a path that might actually lead to where we want to go.

I would have preferred some links to information online that might validate claims about "expensive literature, mostly useless conferences, wasted marketing campaigns, ill-advised lawsuits, excessive salaries, bad business decisions, high turnovers in CEO's and troublesome employees, etc."

In my own experience, I've been to two of the Alcor conferences, and they were outstanding. I notice that free copies of Cryonics magazine are available, and the Alcor website is very informative.