travel

Off the road again

Sign in a former Brugge antique shopI'm back home after a couple of weeks of travel that took me to Brussels, Brugge, Stockholm, Kansas City and Columbia, Mo., in pretty much that order. International travel induces a kind of vertigo in which old things, when you return, seem new, and I don't mean just the weeds that appeared everywhere in my lawn during my absence. Ideas and issues are bumped out of their comfortable positions.

Stockholm in April, Moscow in June

I'm a sucker for international travel, so I've signed on to speak at the Citygate Forum in Stockholm at the end of April, and at the World Editors Forum in Moscow in June. In both cases I'll be talking about the new, participatory, Web-powered participatory community interaction thing ... and avoiding the baggage-laden "citizen journalism." And I won't mention "witness contributors."