It’s about as far away from the big digital media hubs as you can get, but I’m hanging out in Omaha, Nebraska this weekend for Berkshire Hathaway’s famous annual shareholder meeting held every year at the Qwest Center. According to reports, about 30,000 people (a record) are expected to descend, hoping to hear Warren Buffett (and his sidekick Charlie Munger) discuss the economy and the state of the business. Even though Bill Gates and Sue Decker are on Berkshire Hathaway’s board, I don’t expect much digital media talk. But for Buffett, who has long spoken out against practices in the financial industry, including the use of complex, difficult-to-value derivatives, recent activity represents a teachable moment. So there’ll be plenty of talk on that, as well as Justin brand cowboy boots, Dairy Queen ice cream and the Nebraska Furniture Mart, which sells “The Warren” (incidentally I am actually in the market for a new mattress, so I’m interested). And if there is any news relevant to paidContent readers, you can find it here.

Anyway, if anyone happens to be in town, feel free to shoot me a message at joseph (at) paidcontent (dot) org. Ditto if there are any digital media startups in Omaha that I should know about—let’s meet up.