Arianna founded the Huffington Post, an amazing on line newspaper/blog that has taken America by storm. I met Arianna on Sunday at DLD. Boy is she smart. I don´t know how old she is but she is good looking, self confident and funny (this goes for this stupid rumour started by Vanity Fair that says that women are not funny, if you don´t believe me watch her video). Now Arianna is also quick and after a great conversation she invited me to blog on her site. I had to say yes. Arianna herself is a great writer. Here´s her description of DLD, the Davos of New Media.

Here´s Craig from Craigslist. I loved his presentation at DLD. One thing that surprised me is how Craig used the example of Bush´s reasons for invading Iraq when explaining the tools that Craigslist was implementing to avoid scams.

David de Rotschild is an adventurer and also an ecologist. He is the head of Adventure Ecology, an expedition group raising awareness about climate change. In this video, David speaks about his next adventure, Plastiki. I read Kontiki when I was 14 and fell in love with the book. I think Plastiki is a great idea to bring awareness of the problem of plastics in the ocean in a way that is constructive, fun but yet repetitive enough to make a difference. Unfortunately a lot of what happens in high seas is unregulated as anyone can basically do whatever they want in high seas. But as it happens with pirates when nations got serious about them most piracy ended as pirates need to come ashore and so do ocean polluters.

Just me being interviewed about Fon.

Technorati is about to launch a fantastic new feature. I saw it but swore to David that I would not disclose it. So in this video David speaks about Technorati in general but if you want to know what this feature is wait a few days and don´t bother viewing it.

It´s here, pls go to Sunday, 17:40.

Normally I go to conferences as a speaker. But thanks to my interests as a blogger, I have been asking for different roles so not only I can tell others about Fon but I learn about what others are doing. At SIME things work out well and I was both moderator of a very interesting pannel with Hjalmar Windbladh, Marko Ahtissari, Carlos Bhola and others and then I was also suprisingly given the role of rapper!, at DLD I managed to do slightly better. I am moderating an interesting panel with Nicholas Negroponte among others.