My city of Turin, Italy spent the year 2008 as the "World Capital of Design." Our year ended in financial crisis, just the same as everyone else's. This doesn't much bother me, though I am concerned about the distress of others. Here in Europe, we employ terms rarely heard across the Atlantic.

A start for an discourse about broadcasting. We have to reflect the current socio-political and cultural status of the world. This is a very interesting time in which we are living in. The values of the industry and business community, followed the politicians into corruption, bankruptcy and is now finally as well braking apart.

Watch Jamais speach at TED, link to his side Open the future.

"...stay hungry, stay foolish!" Solong Steve... stay well!

Researchers examined death rates among men of working age in the post-communist countries of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union between 1989 and 2002. They conclude that as many as one million working-age men died due to the economic shock of mass privatisation policies. See more dead rates from 20th century.

The trick was simple, but good, mix together some platitudes, fake cultural pluralism and let the politicians do the job, they hang all in the right place. The place in this case, the centre where image paranoia plays daily games, in who is who of European ego complexity, of the ones who are and the ones who are not, the wannabes.