Attitudes, Jewish Federation Publications’ glossy lifestyle magazine, will publish Steve Lubetkin’s article about Iceland in its Fall/Winter 2008 issue. The magazine will arrive in mailboxes just after Thanksgiving.

Lubetkin wrote the article just after his June visit to Iceland, when the International Association of Online Communicators held its international conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. In October, the Icelandic economy collapsed, the three largest banks were nationalized, and tens of thousands of Icelanders found themselves unable to withdraw money from their savings accounts to pay for ordinary expenses. Mortgages and car loans written in foreign currencies became impossibly expensive, and the country's government went hat in hand to the International Monetary Fund and even to Russia for foreign aid.

To hear a podcast conversation between Lubetkin and Hjörtur Smárason, an Icelandic social media and marketing consultant, updating Iceland’s economic situation and discussing how Icelanders are coping with their changed status, direct your browser to http://www.compuschmooze.com and click on podcast 26.