Dear all,

The final announcement!

Webloggers’ portal Living in China and the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club will host a meeting in Shanghai at Saturday evening and Sunday morning 17/18 April that will coincide with the Bloggercon II that will take place at the Harvard Law School in the United States. At the third floor of Sasha’s you will be able to follow three of the more interesting sessions through a webcast (audio only), follow examples of live-blogging from Sasha’s and Harvard on a screen and participate in chatrooms surrounding the meeting at Harvard. You can find the full schedule here and bring your own laptop: Sasha’s has its own free wireless connection, but you might have to bring your own extension cord.

In another part of the room you will be able to meet foreign correspondents, media people and webloggers from Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzou and San Francisco. Drinks will be available for 30 Rmb and finger food will be for free.

Our schedule looks as follows (but feel free to bring your own laptop and deviate from our schedule):

The meeting room will be available from 7:30 PM, while official activities start around 8:00 PM

8:00 PM-8:15PM: short introduction by the Shanghai organizers

8:15 PM – 8:45 PM: National Anthem, opening remarks by Dave Winer

Session 1: 9:00 PM – 10.15 PM: What is Journalism? Moderated by Jay Rosen

Session 2: 10:30 PM- 11:45 PM: Blogging as a Business, by Jeff Jarvis

Break from 11:45PM – 1:30 AM we will use for the introduction of some of the participants, discussion about the items that have come up and proposals for a follow up.

Session 3: 1:30 AM – 2:45 AM: Creating a global cyber common, by Rebecca MacKinnon

While we have no direct contact with the US that would allow us to participate in the sessions themselves, both Jay Rosen and Rebecca MacKinnon have started already online discussions on their subjects that would allow us to participate ahead of the meeting. Please follow the links.

Please replay to this email when you intend to come by filling in the following form, also when you have already announced you will be coming:

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Fons

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