David Pescovitz writes about the terrific speakers scheduled for Web 2.0 Summit:

Our fearless band manager John Battelle is the co-host, along with Tim O’Reilly, of the Web 2.0 Summit, a huge confab where Internet heavyweights talk big vision. Combined, John and Tim know everyone on the Internet (and their brothers) and so they always line up great talkers. They’ve just announced the speaker list for this year’s Web 2.0, to be held November 5-7 in San Francisco. It’s no “insider baseball” Internet conference. Indeed, the big thematic question of Web 2.0 2008 is: “How can we apply the lessons of the Web to the world at large?” Folks like Al Gore, Lance Armstrong, Saul Griffith, Elon Musk, and Michael Pollan will attempt to provide some answers.

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