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mesh: the hits just keep on coming

I’m getting so fired up about the people we have coming to join us at the mesh conference (May 30 and 31 at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto) that I thought I would list some of them here, just to give you a taste — there’s lots more at www.meshconference.com and also listed on the blog there. But here are some of the highlights for me:

• Mike Arrington, obviously — the founder and editor of TechCrunch is pretty much the poster boy for Web 2.0 and also at the epicenter of what’s going on with new media.
• Jim Buckmaster — the CEO of Craigslist, which isn’t just a phenomenally successful social network, but also an incredible story of how the founders have deliberately avoided making money.
• Rachel Sklar — Toronto-born former lawyer who is now the editor of the Eat The Press section of Huffington Post, a giant in the field of new media and a wonderful writer to boot.
• Jeff Howe — a Wired contributing editor and veteran journalist who invented the term “crowdsourcing” and is now working on a book about the concept of content produced by users.
• Simon Pulsifer — Canada’s own “king of Wikipedia,” who has written more than 2,000 entries in the open-source encyclopedia and edited almost 100,000.
• Mike Masnick — the founder of Techdirt, a key source of creative thinking about Web 2.0 and technology in general, as well as a people-powered consulting company.

There are lots more too: How about Garth Turner, blogger/author and MP? Or Christine Herron, a venture capitalist with The Omidyar Network. Or Scott Feschuk, writer/comedian and former Paul Martin speechwriter. Video-blogger Loren Feldman from 1938media. Andrew Coyne, columnist and gadfly. McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves, creator of CBC’s Zed and now Rapspace.tv. And dozens more. Better hurry — tickets are going fast :-)

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