adrian monck

Month: January 2008

  • What would a godless religion look like? Like this maybe…

    The closing session at the World Economic Forum in Davos was by Benjamin Zander. If you ever wondered what a secular sermon would sound like (it was Sunday morning), then it would probably go a little like this. It’s quite a schtick (72 minutes in all), but when Zander finished there was barely a dry…

  • The four types of blogger at Davos

    The Telegraph may have Martin Sorrell and Ben Verwaayen blogging from here in Davos, but the FT is covering the waterfront with half a dozen or so blogging participants. There’s an interesting piece on Sovereign Wealth Funds from Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley. But broadly the wider Davos blogging canvas looks like this: faux modest…

  • Clang. The sound of names dropping.

    A Davos day. I guess it is the proximity that makes Davos what it is. This morning I had a few words with Jacob Zuma. Said hi to Mohamed Chebaro of Al Arabiya. Then a brief chat with the Duke of York, met on the stairs. Saw an old college chum who is now a…

  • Government-funded journalism

    I just ran into Michael Arrington, who although he is a tech journo, still has an eye for a story. He was in a Davos session led by Jeff Jarvis when Columbia President Lee Bollinger piped up about government-funded journalism: When the business model of “real journalism” fails, what should society do in response? When…