SPEAK, BLOGGERY: Just received confirmation that I’ll be speaking next Wednesday at an America’s Future Foundation panel on blogs. What will I say? Won’t know ’til I get there! Come on, feel the noise–here’s the email I received:

On Wednesday, June 19, the America’s Future Foundation will present a roundtable on the new online phenomenon known as Weblogging or “blogging.” Are blogs legitimate sources of news and opinion [boo, hiss–Ed.]?Do they threaten the established press? Or do they empower journalists and others who until now had to rely on “big media” to get their message out?

Speaking will be Stan Evans, dean of old-school reporting and director of the National Journalism Center, journalist and blogger Joshua Micah Marshal (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/), and up-and-coming Catholic blogger Eve Tushnet (eve-tushnet.blogspot.com). Also joining us will be Noah Shachtman who recently wrote a piece on blogging for Wired News. Attorney and blogger Gene Healy (http://www.genehealy.com/) will moderate.

The event will take place at the Fund for American Studies (1706 New Hampshire Ave., NW). Drinks will begin at 7:00 p.m., with dinner and discussion following at 7:30. Please RSVP to me at [email protected].