I was sleeping longer than usual but this quote (see below) woke up my urge to participate.

There has been an ongoing discussion if mega-regions – a term massively leveraged by Richard Florida – are the actual and even more the next big hubs of economic growth. Politicians, sociologists, and economists started not only graphing existing and future hot-spots but were also discussing what’s necessary to stay or become such an economic hot-spot.

Nobody is untouched by the recent turmoil at the financial markets. While the US were hit hard. The rest of the world stands by.

Inspired by a TC post titled September Madness I started this map, please have a look.

Summer is over and the conference season is about to start. During the next 2 weeks I’m at Office 2.0 – details here at MindMeister.

On 9/11 I’m delighted to participate in an elevator pitch competition at the Eco-Kongress in Cologne. Slides soon on Slideshare.

We had some fun yesterday playing with screencasting tools, Quicktime and MindMeister.

MindMeister on Speed from Thomas N. Burg on Vimeo.