The announcement came a week later than expected, but yesterday Al Gore went public with plans for the “Live Earth” concerts that will happen on July 7

The saturday before last, it hit 70º in New York City, but lately things have been suitably wintry. It would be a relief, if I hadn’t just found out that it snowed in Los Angeles yesterday.

The NYT asks “Is Qatar the Next Dubai?�?- they’ve got man-made resort islands too! It seems like mere weeks ago, Dubai was the next Dubai. And the cannibalizing cycle of the “Next Big Thing�? spirals on…