From April 2-4 more than 800 bloggers, netizens, and media creators will gather in Berlin for the 2nd edition of the Re:publica conference. The 2008-theme will be "the critical mass". In over 100 talks, panels and workshops the conference will address the social and cultural impact of blogs, wikis, and social networks and discuss social media that rely on the interaction between people. The conference will be held mostly in German. If you are in Berlin these you can register here.

Here’s some news: registration is now open for the event Going Solo which will take place in Lausanne on May 16th.

(I gave an open stage speech Thursday morning telling the story of how I came to organize such an event.)

I initially wanted to give LIFT attendees a special discount, but ended up doing more than that: why limit this to our community, when it is possible to spread the LIFT spirit to everyone?

Therefore, during this first week of registration (until Sunday), Going Solo will be 100 CHF less for everybody: 300CHF instead of the 400CHF early bird price. Don’t miss it, and register right away!

I want to thank the whole LIFT organization for making this event already one of the highlights for me this year. Absolutely amazing what you guys pulled off, and hope to be back next year.

I wanted to let everyone know that I'm organizing a conference of my own, dubbed Plugg, which will be held 19 March in Brussels (Belgium).

More info: http://plugg.eu

Short and sweet: Plugg is a web & mobile 2.0 conference focused on raising awareness for European start-ups and investors willing to support emerging technology companies from this continent.

If you're interested in coming to Plugg, register using couponcode 'LIFT' to get 25% knocked off the regular entrance price!

http://plugg.eu/practical-info/register

Thanks to the organization for allowing me to plug Plugg here, and see you all soon!

Actually, I haven't exploret the website that much today, but I really wanted to react about this website: it's exactly the kind of initiatives that a lot of students in design work on and I think Tom Taylor really brought a nice spirit to this project.
In few words the website is a social platform for people to act in a positive way for sustainable development. The humorous pieces of advice propose a real deep education, based on really simple actions for everyday life. Tom Taylor (www.tomtaylor.co.uk) explains that for him, a green thing is:
- positive
-easy
-creative
- a group thing (the aim being to base the efficience on the mass and on the peer respect)

an application enables each user to visualize it energy consumption, and the CO2 economized through his initiatives.

Really, to my understanding a very interesting intervention insofar as the whole platform proposes a new glimpse on ecology, and especially make it accessible to anyone.

I absolutely love the plethora of avenues for contributing and helping influence the conference; this site and the community blogs, the face photos, fontself, the Not So Empty Book...

Simply wonderful. Congratulations on authoring such a wonderful conference and letting us add our own embellishments. :)