Today marks a new start for Davos Newbies. I’m no longer directly connected with the World Economic Forum or World Link, although I hope and plan to retain close personal links (and my heart will always be partially connected to both). I am now a managing director at Vesta Group, an Internet and wireless investment and development company based in London.

But I plan to make Davos Newbies the place where I can continue to engage in a wide range of issues that are of personal concern to me. Not coincidentally, these issues also are largely congruent with the concerns of the Davos summit. In a perhaps slightly oblique way, I tried to express some of my thoughts about what matters in my envoi for World Link.

I also plan a return of normal service, in some senses, for those aimed at Davos itself. I’ll be attending Davos 2001 as a Forum Fellow, but with no particular inside scoop on what’s going on. But I’ll draw on my past experience to try to make it more valuable for everyone else. Given the heightened interest in Davos — everyone expects the 2000 protests to be significantly amplified in 2001 — I hope my viewpoint and guidance can be helpful.

On matters of more current note, the always pithy Paul Krugman has a cold shower of sobriety, reflecting on the economic consequences of the currently hung election in the US. And, although I pointed to it in my World Link weblog last week, the Curmudgeon has unrivalled statistical analysis of what’s going on. And Dave Winer is keeping up with the endless twists and turns on Scripting News.