Last year Om Malik lead a discussion on what bloggers could learn from journalism, and vice versa. This year he teams up with noted contrarian John C. Dvorak to take the discussion to the next level.

Session Leader: John C. Dvorak

WordPress blog: Dvorak Uncensored

Current PC Magazine Columnist writing Inside Track, an essay and a weekly online column. These articles are licensed around the world. Also a weekly columnist for Dow-Jones Marketwatch, Info! (Brazil) and BUG Magazine (Croatia). Previously a columnist for Forbes, Forbes Digital, PC World, MacUser, PC/Computing, Barrons, Smart Business and other magazines and newspapers. Former editor and consulting editor for Infoworld. Has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, SF Examiner, Vancouver Sun. Was on the start-up team for CNet TV as well as ZDTV. At ZDTV (and TechTV) was host of Silicon Spin for four years doing 1000 live and live-to-tape TV shows. Also was on public radio for 8 years. Written over 4000 articles and columns as well as authoring or co-authoring 14 books.

2004 Award winner of the American Business Editors Association’s national gold award for best online column of 2003. That was followed up by an unprecedented second national gold award from the ABEA in 2005, again for the best online column (for 2004).

Session Leader: Om Malik

WordPress blog: GigaOM, and many more.

Om Malik, is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc. and executive editor for GigaOM.com. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. For more info on Om, see the Om Malik extended bio.

John Dvorak and Om Malik are on stage in a debate! “Blogs vs. Journalism!”

Meta tags? Title? Sponsored links? What the heck?

There are few people in the world that know more about how Google works than Matt Cutts, and he’s here to help us separate the wheat from the chaff in the wild and wooly world of search engines.

Session Leader: Matt Cutts

WordPress blog: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

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This weekend is the 2007 WordCamp conference at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco, CA.

I will be doing blogging while down there, although I may do like summaries of the day. I will have my camera with me, so depending on my ability to find time, you might be interested in checking out my Flickr photos during the day. I might update them during the day, if not, I’ll definitely try to get them updated in the evening/night. However, as there is free wifi being provided, you can be guaranteed that I’ll be keeping my Twitter up-to-date with everything that’s going on. And of course, there’s plenty of places to find WordCamp coverage this year.
So here’s to what will be sure to be a great weekend! Also, remember that I am going to interviewing Matt Mullenweg at the end of the day!

Apple Inc. this fall plans to accelerate its assault on the 1 billion unit worldwide cell phone market with a second incarnation of its iPhone handset that will likely appeal to an even larger audience, AppleInsider has learned.

 The move is believed to be part of a broader, all-out blitz on the consumer electronics sector this holiday shopping season, in which a staggering array of gadgets from the Cupertino-based firm is expected to leave would-be rivals confused and unable to react.

Extremely reputable sources have told AppleInsider in recent weeks that the company’s iPhone roadmap for the 2007 calendar year includes not one but two distinct models, the second of which is set to turn up just months after the first.

According to one source, development of the second model has followed so closely on the heels of the inaugural iPhone that it was making its final pass through engineering around the same time that today’s model hit the manufacturing lines back in May or early June.

Conceived as a scaled back, lower cost alternative to today’s iPhone, the second iteration of the handset is presumed to marry iPod functionality with rudimentary cellular capabilities. More resource-heavy Internet browsing and e-mail capabilities are not expected of the device.

In providing the first visual descriptions of the handset, long-standing industry sources — who’ve continually been in tune with Apple’s future music directions — have dubbed the device “an iPhone nano” because they say it best describes the the handset’s overall form-factor and aesthetic.

Pricing of the new handset is expected to fall significantly below the $500+ asking cost of today’s iPhone models, these sources say, but not so much so as to pinch sales of an upcoming revision to the iPod nano.

Like today’s iPhone, the new model is expected to sport a revolutionary user interface, clues of which may have recently been revealed in a trio of patent filings.

The filings published earlier this month detailed telephone and text entry interfaces for a cellular-capable device via a virtual rotary click-wheel. One in particular described segmenting a click-wheel’s circular shape into various regions to enable quick phone dialing by sensing which region was touched.

(The near-simultanious appearance of these filings, ensuing scuffle amongst Wall Street analyst over the prospect of an iPhone nano, and the notion that a corresponding device is actually flirting with manufacturing ramp, all appear to be part of an eerie coincidence at this time.)

In a move that would stand in stark contrast to the June 29th iPhone launch, where supplies were exclusive to Apple and AT&T stores, there’s also some informed speculation amongst sources that the new model would be immediately available through a larger network of Apple third-party retailers and AT&T partners.

Further details will be published if and when information becomes available.

I must admit I’m a bit surprised that this slipped past me, so I hope I’m not the only one that didn’t realize Entourage can sync with the iPhone via its oft-forgotten ability to play well with Mac OS X’s Sync Services. According to this Apple support doc, switching on the preference you see above in Entourage 11.3.5 or later will break down the barriers between Entourage, Address Book and iCal, allowing iTunes to unite your iPhone and Entourage in beautiful synching harmony (however, as far as I can tell, iTunes won’t be able to sync your actual email accounts from Entourage).

If anyone has been using their iPhone with Entourage, please sound off on how this setup’s been treatin’ you.