Cheryl Mendelson has a new book called Laundry.

How did people start singing “Sweet Caroline” at Red Sox games?

Web 1.0 Summit: My Garage, San Francisco
Originally uploaded by merlinmann.

Web 1.0 is just around the corner, so iron your New Media Blue™ shirt and recharge your ginormous cellphone, because we’re going public, bitch.

• Yes, this is an actual event
• Yes, there may very well be one or two beer-fueled presentations from Web People You’ve Heard Of
• No, the day and location are not finalized (shooting for House of Shields on Wednesday the 5th)
• Yes, you have to wear whatever name tag I give you
• Yes, we probably will pass the hat soon to buy us a waitress and a round or two (as with the meetup of yore)
• Yes, if your company wants to co-sponsor it (along with 43F and the year 1998), it can (coughAppleAPBloggerOdeoSixapartcough).

So. What remains is to nail down the coordinates. I’m going to a big blow-out on Thursday (the 6th), but I wonder if actual Web 2.0 attendees can clue me to any other major evening events on whose toes we mustn’t step. Spill, please.

Post thoughts and ideas here; watch the Upcoming.org page for news on the final happs.

Like I say, let’s try to make this one better-attended than the last one.

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Mannerheim's Hipster PDA
Originally uploaded by arabella.

Fingers crossed that I wasn’t the only person who had to look up who Carl Mannerheim was. My Finnish history is, let us say, uneven.

Cool handwriting.