Businessweek: Mega Europe. Soon, 10 states and millions of people in the old Soviet bloc will join the EU to form a new super-Europe. The question now: Is bigger better?
Businessweek special report on the new europe of 454 million people.

Trikke – funky weird new vehicle for personal transport.

Dan Bricklin: Tablet PC: First Impressions. Listen closely when a digital pioneer, who also was involved in the first wave of pen computing, shares his views…

Vibhav’s wedding!
Can’t wait for Joi Ito’s reporting from this bizarre wedding with 18,000 participants and a chartered jet for the special guests.
The real world is just so much more interesting than entertainment and the simplified stories of the current media system!
And speaking of bizarre – one day i’ll get my act together and tell you about my bizarre but interesting experiences onboard Charles Simonyi’s mega-yacht “Skat”

Mblogs:
Blogging+Mobile Camera’s+Always on wireless=the future of communication/storytelling!
I deeply believe that the next killer-app for communication and storytelling is on it’s way. Combining the concept of weblogs, the surge in small mobile camera’s integrated into mobile phones and the always on data connections that the new phones makes possible. Taking blogging out of the context of your fixed physical enviroment and the text-only format that the current tools fosters.
The most powerful media system to be made available to mankind ever – and available at a very low cost in the future. …

ECIFFO – a Japan-based international research/information journal dedicated to explore the possibility of office designs from diverse points of view. The definite ressource with loads of good case stories and articles like Workplaces as media, “The City is the Office”, “The City as the Workplace” (featuring the now defunct Unitedspaces Copenhagen) and “Club Office”.

Fraunhofer Office Innovation Center OIC
“At the Fraunhofer Office Innovation Center (OIC) the future of work is being researched, lived and demonstrated. Experts from five Fraunhofer institutes work out prototypical solutions for the office world of tomorrow. The federal government, the govern-ment of Baden-Württemberg and numerous enterprises support this project, which is unique in Germany.”

Bill Clinton at Berkeley University [realvideo scroll to about 18 minutes into the stream].
Very balanced speech about the issues we as humans are facing the next 20 years. Instant reaction – how do we transform the conversations of politics to the major issues through reasoned balanced discussions? [via John Robb]

Nick Denton on ínvestment bankers

stevenberlinjohnson.com – a new blog from Steven Johnson, author of “Emergence” and “Interface Culture” and co-founder of Feed. Steven was a speaker at the first reboot event in 1998.