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By Maria Mouk for Silicon Valley Watcher

This week starts out immediately productive if you have made it your agenda to attend the Third Annual Web 2.0 Conference at Palace Hotel in San Francisco, lasting Nov 7th to Nov 9th. The Web 2.0 Conference focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and will be a gathering of top-notch presenters, leaders, and experts in the field. Be sure to catch Wednesday mornings' discussion on "Net Neutrality" with Tim O'Reilly , Vinton G. Cerf , and Robert Pepper, or "What Google Knows" on Thursday with Marissa Mayer (with many more on the schedule for you to explore.)

Wednesday evening find yourself at the Creative Commons monthly salon at Shine, with this weeks lineup featuring Flickr, Annalee Newitz, Bittorrent, the Homebrew Mobile Club, and the music of the Kleptones. Goes all eve, so show up, even afterhours. Alternately (or in addition to) drop over to Dorkbot, where Greg Hazel will present Incoherence: Stereo Field Spectrum Analysis which displays stereo field and frequency information together, in real-time. It can show frequency-dependent phase information in an intuitive way. The demo will include an introduction to the display layout, basic functions, and music demonstrations. Matt Chisholm and Ross Cohen present The Neighborhood Project, a map of city neighborhoods based on the collective opinions of internet users.

Still if you're looking for stimulation beyond speculation, Wednesday 6pm-8pm, put your physical efforts and gusto into setting up for the two day Web 2point2 Unconference at the Microsoft Conference Center (1 Market Street) held on Nov 9th and 10th; Web2Point2 aims to be an event driven by participants and based on conversations, not powerpoints, though they're surely booking hype from their larger Web 2.0 brother event (or those who can't pocket to attend.) Email kristie@brainjams.org or call 415.577.9022, if in fact you're interested. Afterparty at Fluid (662 Mission) on Thursday, and free admission with event badge.

Thursday evening, at 111 Minna Gallery, the good people of Grist, (Environmental News and Commentary) are in San Francisco to host a Grist Organic Happy Hour. Chat it up to the writers and join forces, or just offer suggestions, and if the amazing menu isn't enough (choc full of local organic delicacies and libations from Square One Vodka, Bison Brewery, Organic Vintners, Sambazon juice and Guayaki Yerba Mate,)  Flexcar will be there as well donating 5 free memberships that include 5 free hours a month for 6 months, and Clif Bar will be offsetting all emissions for the event via their Cool Tags program with Native Energy. RSVP now.

Thursday night rocks on with Canadian Ninjatune artist Kid Koala at the Mezzanine, with 12 dollar advance tickets. His recent tours have included up to 8 turntables and sounds: unforgettable! Think jazz-hop-scratchathon.

SFlickr; a monthly meeting of San Francisco Flickr users, starts 7pm at Crossroads Café (699 Delancey St.) This is an opportunity to meet local Flickr users and discuss camera specs/ photo tips. Falls in time with the recent re-release of JPG Magazine, where readers (viewers) can submit photos to issues and themes for consideration in the magazine. ($100 per photo used.)

See you Thursday, till then; avoid all shell shock from Web related activity. Though the days are cooler; get out, as time away from the safety net of technology (sit.. stare.. type) make for better productivity in the long term.

[diggrz refers to the nomadic lifestyle offered by mobile digital technologies and gadgets - creating a "nomadig" culture. The diggrz name is also a tip-of-the-hat to some of the ideas of the Diggers, a democratic group that arose in 1649, out of the English revolution .

The Diggers were a radical group that cultivated and protected common lands, and sought to create egalitarian, self-sustaining communities. The Diggers would have found  kindred spirits in today's software engineer culture,  and the focus on creating  commonly owned technologies through egalitarian open source community projects. - Tom Foremski]

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