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I’ll be attending the 2008 NetSquared conference in San Jose, California next week — I’ll be there for day one on May 27. I went to the inaugural conference in 2006 with Frank Hecker from the Mozilla Foundation and I’m excited to see how the event has evolved.

This year’s theme is “Mashup Challenge“:

This year’s NetSquared Conference will bring together a unique mix of people from the public and private sectors to develop and release Mashups designed to provide deeper insight into the social issues affecting communities around the globe.

Those “people” are you — members of the NetSquared universe working on behalf of communities everywhere and the technical experts who care about these issues.

If we’re successful, we’ll learn something about cross-sector collaboration, meet new and interesting people, and build a unique gallery of Mashups that citizens, schools, and community-based groups everywhere can learn from, replicate, and build upon.

There will be several Mozillians and friends of ours from Miro there, so if you’re going, see you in person!

This is a shameless plug and an invitation to meet up at Web 2.0 Expo 2008 San Francisco. My good friend Jen Pahlka is GM for the show, and she and her team have pulled together another awesome edition. I’ve already registered and plan for sure to check out the Thursday talks by Blaine Cook, Tom Coates, Marc Andreesen, and Kakul Srivastava. Hope to see you there!

Update: Just announced - Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s chairperson and chief lizard wrangler, will be giving a keynote Thursday April 24 at 9:50 a.m. Details here.

Installfest 2008 looks awesome. Good luck folks!

Please, please post video of this talk and share the coordinates.

Even better, come give it live at Mozilla the next time you are in the Bay Area.

kthxbye. :-)

Beautiful music resource posted at the Hype Machine today:

• The best 50 songs
• The best 50 albums
• The best 50 bands

of 2007, as bubbled up by the music bloggers Hype Machine tracks. RAWK!