Davos Newbies

Perhaps stung by the popularity of Amanda Congden’s Rocketboom, Berkeley economist Brad DeLong seems to have added a regular video element to his essential weblog. The first installments of Morning Coffee are as good as I expected, but I wonder why Brad seems to be imbedding the QuickTime video in his blog, rather than making it available in his full-text feed as an enclosure.

I wouldn’t usually cite Tom Peters for modesty, but his take on giving a talk in Novosibirsk makes me reconsider: “Problems notwithstanding, my hosts are lovely, and I suspect I’m the first management ‘guru’ to venture this far afield—I look forward to giving my talk, though I can’t imagine I’m relevant.”