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Two weeks ago, the Internet fought back against legislation aimed at limiting its freedoms. Thanks to a widespread Internet blackout, SOPA and PIPA legislation has been tabled for now. While it feels great to know that for now, our Internet freedoms have remained untouched, it’s important to pay attention to what may come next.

NewsTools2008 takes place April 30-May 3 at the yahoo! Conference Center in Sunnyvale, California If you’re a Drupal programmer, user-experience expert, social-network innovator, or web 2.0 entrepreneur, you’re invited! The topic of the event is “Technology and the New Ecology of News: How will technology innovation support journalism and participatory democracy?” It’s billed as an event in which journalism’s ideals will meet Silicon Valley’s tools in a three-day, conceptual mashup. Groovy.

One of the perks of living in Silicon Valley is taking advantage of the SDForum, which usually promises some good healthy brain-overload on what’s important to techies today.

The SDForum has just announced its line-up of speakers for the Security Conference, which takes place this September 19.

Into Ruby? Clear your weekend schedule and make a pilgrimage to San Jose, CA, the heart of Silicon Valley. Here at Mecca you will find the SDForum, the Valley’s geektacular info-source in the tech community.