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I am, of course, sorry they did not go with us, but as NBC starts running these ads, it would seem the ‘theoretical’ part of our conversation is now officially over.

Searching for the best Belgian beer… (in our downtime).

We are getting close to DNA2008, our VJ oriented, digital news conference in Brussels, Belgium.

The dates are March 3-4.

We’ve got lots of great speakers booked - more than 60, in fact.

Here are a few:

• Margot Wallström, Vice President, European Commission
• Helen Boaden, Director of News, BBC News
• Christian Van Thillo, CEO, De Persgroep
• Monique Villa, Managing Director, Reuters Media
• Tyler Brule, Editor in Chief, Founder, Monocle Magazine, Founder, Wallpaper Magazine
• Adriaan Bouten, Senior VP & Chief Information Officer (I&M), McGraw-Hill
• Laurel Chamberlain, Director, Digital Media - News, Turner Media
• Stephen Marshall, Co- Founder, Creative Director GNN
• Joris Van Heukelom, Director, Cross Media, DAG
• Edward Roussel, Digital Editor, Telegraph Media Group
• Maurits van Rijckevorsel, Business Manager Cross Media, De Telegraaf
• Bas Broekhuizen, Editor, Volkskrant TV
• Michael Rosenblum, President, Rosenblum TV
• Reiner Mittelbach, CEO, IFRA
• Jörg Sadrozinski, Editor in Chief, ARD
• Charles de Vroede, Deputy Chief Editor, De Telegraaf
• Willi Ruetten, Director, European Journalism Center
• Hans Laroes, Editor in Chief, NOS
• Alexander Houben, Managing Editor, Volksfreund

Of course, a lot of these are Europeans.

For Americans, (who tend to be a rather insular lot), some of these and the other names might seem strange.

Not in Europe.

And there is a lot to learn from them.

Europeans tend to be much further ahead on digital matters than Americans - though we don’t know this for the most part (because only 7% of us even have passports!).

In any event, take a look at the website…

And if you can, come over to Brussels.

Airfare is around $550.

Well worth it.

And, for readers of this blog… we are offering a discount of $150. When you register, just type in Rosen1 in the ‘code’ box.