Davos Newbies

How time flies when you’re having fun.

I’ve thanked Dave Winer many times for starting me on the blogging journey but once more can’t hurt.  Thinking back, it’s also remarkable that Klaus Schwab, the founder and head of the World Economic Forum, not only tolerated my blogging back then but actively encouraged it. An unregulated voice from within the walls of an important institution may now be a commonplace, but in 1999-2000 it was unheard of.

The Financial Times’ Ludovic Hunter-Tilney raves about the Led Zeppelin concert in London and recalls most reviewers didn’t think much of the band back in the early ’70s. The FT apparently was an exception:

When the Financial Times, far-sighted as ever, published a rave review, Robert Plant was delighted: it meant that his father, a regular reader, would forgive him for not becoming a chartered accountant.