Several months ago, the Idea Festival organizers asked all of the conference speakers to recommend a book that would be useful in thinking about what the future will be like in art, technology and politics. I recommended Stephen Johnson's The Ghost Map, which I had just finished reading in galley, and sadly it wasn't out yet when the conference was happening. So I'm recommending it again now. If you're interested in urban planning and/or epidemiology, in particular, it's a great read.

Dead Horse Media moved into new office space last Friday after we totally overran the available space in my lead investor's offices. If we had added one more person, someone would have had to sit in Carney's lap. And it wasn't going to be me. So we packed up all of our worldly possessions (the Jim Cramer bobblehead, our one-step-up-from-a-crate-and-a-piece-of-plywood Ikea desks and the copies of Institutional Investor that, given the inexplicably large number of them, appear to have mated and reproduced during their stay), said goodbye to Steve Perry and moved to Mott between Prince and Houston. Here's the new space, yet unmolested...