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.

Kaum hat sich das Portal-Konzept als Erfolgsstrategie vielfach etabliert, hat die volatile Internet-Ökonomie schon ein neues Zauberwort, ein neues Konzept hervorgebracht – die Destination Site mit den Ingredienzen: noch mehr und wieder Community, endlich E-Commerce und letztlich Breitband-Zugang. Was Mitte 1997 als Marketingidee begann, nahm seinen Siegeszug im Jahr 1998.