Davos Newbies

While I’ve been preoccupied with starting my new company and preparing my talks for the current trip in Australia, I’ve been remiss in pointing to essential reading.

Suzanne Nossell and her colleagues on Democracy Arsenal have only been blogging for a couple of months, but her posts in particular are the first thing I turn to when they appear in my aggregator. Today she offers her top 10 things the UN does well (her weekly top 10s are fantastic and belie the usual triteness that infect lists). Over on Daniel Drezner, where she is guest blogging, she provides the reflection: four things the UN could do better.

One of the glitches that happened in moving Davos Newbies to WordPress is some of the very earliest posts were shunted into draft status, rather than published.

I’m sure a clever PHP scripter could do something nifty to transfer them all back. But I’m doing it manually. And it has occasioned a wave of nostalgia. It’s been ages since I read the stuff I wrote in January 2000 about Davos (depending when you read this, only some of the posts are back up). In some ways, they are my version of Proust’s madeleine.