David Abel, publisher of The Planning Report and Metro Investment Report, now has a colloquium named after him. "Rethinking Governance in the Age of MySpace.com" will be held Thursday night at USC's new Galen Center and features "a roundtable dialogue on politics in the digital age among renowned experts in the fields of media, technology and government." Warren Olney of KCRW gives the opening remarks, former Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg gives the closing remarks, and in between Abel moderates a panel that includes:

-Ross Levinsohn, Founding President, Fox Interactive Media
-Phil Noble, Founder, PoliticsOnline
-John A. Pérez, Political Director, United Food and Commercial Workers
-Joe Trippi, President, Joe Trippi and Associates
-Giorgio Vanzini, Senior Director, Government and Education Programs in the Public Sector, Microsoft Corporation
-David Janssen, Chief Administrative Officer, Los Angeles County
-J. Clark Kelso, Chief Information Officer, State of California
-Sunne McPeak, President and CEO, California Emerging Technology Fund
-Danah Boyd, Graduate Student Fellow, USC Annenberg Center for Communication
-Geoffrey Cowan, Dean, USC Annenberg School for Communication
-Jay Harris, Director, Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy, USC Annenberg School for Communication
-Monroe Price, Director, Project for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

The colloquium is put on by the Bedrosian Center on Governance and Public Enterprise at USC. Abel is also managing director of New Schools Better Neighborhoods