I blogged earlier about my being in the Silicon Valley 100, a group generated by a marketing company to send out free stuff to hopefully influential folks. In that posting, I link to Dan Gillmor's reaction to the program, where he writes about how "spooky" it is to him. I didn't agree that it was that spooky, but there is a definite irony to the fact that I recently got a set of books via the SV100, and in that set was Dan's own book "We the Media."

Dan's eyes rolled up when I told him that at dinner this evening. Of course, it was his publisher Tim O'Reilly who put the book out to the group, and again I don't find much spooky about it. Publishers have sent out free copies of books to folks, hoping for reviews and buzz, since the dawn of books.

I was with Dan at the first event in our program celebrating the EFF's 15th birthday, a BayFF panel on blogging and blogger's rights which attracted an overflow crowd with an engaged audience. I'll remember to announce some of the other events in our program in advance. We sang Happy Birthday based on the older lyrics which are out of copyright.