Does New England need a virtual meeting place for news, analysis, discussion and action on politics, culture, environment and life? Could the Massachusetts governor's race be a catalyst to establish such a thing?

Open Source Radio host Christopher Lydon will lead an idea session, an opportunity to count heads and compare notes among people who see the old pillars of public discourse dissolving in front of our eyes.  The general question in a transformational Internet era may be simply:  "Where does the conversation go from here?"

In his invitation to newspaper friends, bloggers, broad- and pod-casters of all persuasions and generations, Chris Lydon wrote:

"We know already that the public chatter isn't going to be re-routed by the old gatekeepers into the old ruts.  But where could it go?  

"Among other questions: why don't we at the core of New England have something like the group blogs we admire -- the aggregative web power --  at the Huffington Post, say, or Daily Kos, or Talking Points Memo and  now, TPM Cafe? 

"Isn't there a way to build such a thing in Boston and Massachusetts while a very good governor's race is building steam?

The  Media Giraffe Project summit and conference could be the best chance in  a long time to learn from a variety of practitioners and maybe to  strategize together."

Join the pre-conference conversation here: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Newengland 

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 HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE LYDON WORKSHOP

To register, go to the official Media Giraffe conference registration page, fill out all your contact information, then scroll down to and check of the "Special Event Registration" box. Then in the "other information" field near the bottom of the form, type: "Attending Friday "New England Common" meetup with Christopher Lydon-- charge my card only $40.00". 

Your $40 entitles you to attend any other Media Giraffe summit sessions on Friday and to attend the "ice-cream social" at 3:30 p.m. and treat yourself to a generous Ben & Jerry's sundae at no additional charge.

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