Always forgot to tell you guys: I flew to good old Bern last week, speaking at LOTS, an Open Source conference / trade show. The second time is always hard for such an event, no doubt, but the organizer did a pretty good job again. I summarized my impressions (in german) on the LOTS open blog, my Moodle presentation is online, too.
There were considerably less participants this time, but I guess their overall "quality" improved. Chatting with folks like Stefano, David and Michi makes such events truely worthwhile indeed.

Berner Zeitung journalist Matthias 'This' Born is blogging, crossposting both into the offline newspaper and into his semi-private weblog.
He's so far primarily transporting stories from techie fringe groups (podcasters, wikinerds, lugs, ..) to the general audience. Surprisingly, he does this for a part of the newspaper titled "Showtime" - boring nerds in the limelight. Good luck!