I just saw Scoble’s post about Gnomedex later this month – some of the speakers:

Marc Canter, co-founder of Macromedia, and J.D. Lasica co-founder of Ourmedia, are coming. So are Dan Gillmor (citizen journalism expert), Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress), Kathy Gill, teacher at University of Washington, Eric Rice, Engadget’s podcaster, Asa Dotzler, Firefox dev, Phillip Torrone, the world’s top geek, Julie Leung (don’t miss her presentation!), Denise Howell (she alone takes better notes than 100 bloggers and is my favorite law blogger), Steve Rubel (the PR guy so good he got a full-page photo in BusinessWeek), Chris Sloop, founder of company that makes WeatherBug, Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines, John Battelle, search expert, And Chris says he has lots of other cool and geeky speakers.

I’m getting excited! Daryll and I will be heading over. Anyone else from Microsoft going?

And to Scoble’s question:

I wonder what Microsoft is gonna announce on stage, though? Hey, Bill Gates, are we gonna show off anything cool at Gnomedex? Or are we gonna let Steve Jobs (er, Adam Curry) and Eric Schmidt have all the fun in our backyard?

I haven’t heard of any “official” delegation, speakers, or sponsorship, beyond Scoble that is. Seems like the right kind of audience for us to be talking to.