I completely forgot about inviting people to an after work mixer type event we are hosting at Catalyst, tonight, Thursday May 12 @ 7pm.

You are all invited, no host bar (hey, we're bloggers...). It'll be the first in a monthly series of Rooster Mashups--mix up a bunch of people from wherever. It could be interesting and I bet it will. You should come along.

Rooster is the perfect metaphor for blogger because 2005 is the Chinese year of the Rooster and it is certainly the year of the Blogger (as Time magazine will certainly dub 2005).

And just like Roosters crowing away at the top of their lungs, rulers of their patch of farm yard, bloggers do the same same thing. Bloggers crow away, or "Whiner" away about how great they are, and they also, are kings and princes within their patches of the internet.

Mashup is a term that I like because it is becoming a very good way to describe what is happening in the emerging Internet 2.0 world, and in culture.

Stop in if you can. It'll be interesting to see who shows up. Catalyst is in San Francisco on 312 Harriet St, it’s a side street south of Howard, between 6th and 7th Streets.

Come in and say hi.