Richard Florida's academic clients like to call Creative Class a "think tank." But his company, Creative Class, actually calls itself a "global advisory services firm," which is correct. Apart from the corporate clients—Goldman Sachs, Citi Group, IBM—for whom they advise on how to reach the "creative class," there's work geared to developers and real estate folks, corporate services and "talent management." And then there's his other clients: cities and city-states, and their business-development corporations. READ MORE

Over the weekend, the website Thrillist, in cooperation with their partners Jet Blue and Starbucks and Sandals Resorts and some other fine businesses, threw a free mystery-destination weekend junket vacation for around 150 people-bloggers, PR people, reporters, tech folks and other youngsters. They ended up in Jamaica! Who were they all? It's hard to tell, if you don't get out much. From Googling super-hard, though, we've come up with about 1/3rd of the guest list. This is useful to have on the record. READ MORE