We're going to Amsterdam for almost 3 weeks - Aug. 22-Sept. 8 this summer!  It's a house trade - so folks there can come here, use our pool and enjoy the hiking trails and view 

I will also be at the Galway, IR FOAF confab Sept. 1-2.  It's time for some serious Blogger partying.

Oh yah - per il mio Italiani Bloggerisimos - we're gonna jet down to Gradisca (near Trieste) to see Paolo and Monica's new house.  We'll definitely congregate down there - too.  Give me a chance to meet Danny Ayers.  Maybe Loic can find his way to one of these parties?

Anyway - we'll be staying at #1 - right off the Rozengracht - near my favorite coffee house "Grey Area".

Ruby is making her first-ever trip to San Francisco for PlaNetwork. Wish I was going too, now.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Here's a post from Ruby on 'e-names'.  :-)

HE-names

I'm struggling to find the relevance of PlaNetwork's "e-names." The fact that it was apparently developed by a gaggle of white guys doesn't help. The next panel is all white guys too. At least I know we'll break out of it in the session since I'll be on the mic (among others)..

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That's ONE of the reasons I'm not at Planetwork today.  But I'll be there tomorrow to challenge Reid Hoffman on his lock-in strategy with LinkedIn.  And to recruit for the FOAFnet.