Link: Hugh McLeod at gap­ingvoid.

For every mid-level man­ag­ing job open­ing up, there’s scores of peo­ple will­ing and able. For every com­pany need­ing to hire an ad agency or design firm, there’s dozens out there, will­ing and able. For every per­son want­ing to buy a new car, there’s tons of car mak­ers and deal­ers out there. I could [go] on and on .… I could also go on about how many good peo­ple I know are caught in over­sup­plied mar­kets, and how every day they wake up, feel­ing chilled to the bone with dread and unease. Adver­tis­ing and media folk are clas­sic examples.

Well, some­times liv­ing in a big city has its advan­tages. For instance, being around for the upcom­ing Les Blogs con­fer­ence at the French Sen­ate, which promises to be out­sand­ing. The day-long event fea­tures a dis­tin­guished panel, includ­ing Joi Ito, CEO, Neoteny;

Cate­rina Fake, co-founder, Flickr, which just got acquired by Yahoo;

Meg Houri­han, co-founder, Blog­ger;

Dave Sifry, founder, Tech­no­rati;

Ross May­field, CEO & co-founder, Social­text;

Gaby Dar­byshire, from “Gawker Media”;

Jason McCabe Cala­ca­nis from WeblogsInc;

Stowe Boyd, Pres­i­dent, “Corante”;

Hal­ley Suitt from Worth­while Mag­a­zine and author of Hal­leyscom­ment;

Doc Searls — Senior Edi­tor, Linux Jour­nal, pro­pri­etor, IT Garage and co-author of the required read­ing book, The Clue­train Man­i­festo;

Michael Brei­den­brücker, U.K., co-founder Last FM;

and Yossi Vardi, founder, ICQ, not to men­tion the 220+ con­firmed par­tic­i­pants, listed here.

Link: What is this event ?

Within the last few months, the Inter­net as we know it has started to
change very fast, taken by storm by blogs and social soft­ware … I [Loic le Meur] decided to organ­ise [an] event … to help us
bet­ter define what’s com­ing next, with a dream panel of the key movers and shak­ers in the
world .… It is a one day and (prob­a­bly) one evening event
on Mon­day, April 25^th …

Hugh McLeod (illus­tra­tion above), author of The Hugh­train and Gal­lieni will be on stage draw­ing their live impres­sions of the event. As of this post­ing, event orga­niz­ers indi­cated another 30 seats had been made available.

Any ques­tions? See you there!