Tony Pierce says it perfectly.
Avril was one reason why I staretd thinking about moving to Canada. That and the chance of the draft being re-instituted and I’ve got three boys approaching draft age.
Here’s Tony’s post…..

dear avril,
there were two paths you could have taken and you took the jessica simpson freeway.
i dont know why [...]

Doc has a good bit (on his IT Garage) on Digital Identity - preparing for the upcoming DIDW (Digital Identity World) conference in Denver (where I’m speaking - as well.)
One thing Doc doesn’t mention - which I blame myself for - is that FOAF is an important standard that can help promulgate the kind of [...]

OK - so I’m sitting here in paris - with an extra moment - so I dipped my toe back into the blgosphere long enough to catch Jay Dedman’s rap on “How to make life easier explained very clearly“.
I dig what he’s saying and pointing to - but I can’t help but wonder how this [...]

Leonard Lin points to this dyanmic Facewall interface which features folks turning their heads to look at who you’ve zoomed into.
Totally coolio.
The idea is that as you roll over a face, that person’s details appear. This way you don’t have to wait for another page to load - to find out something about somebody.
These [...]

Tony Perkins’ AlwaysOn Network has come up with a great way to hussle CEOs. It’s called “CEO Pitch video blog”.
Here are the details…..
We wanted our members to know first that AlwaysOn is launching an
interactive CEO Pitch “video blog.”
Based upon the huge success of the live CEO pitch sessions at our Stanford Innovation Summit [...]

Peter Caputa unveils one of his secret weapons.
How to make money from Events.
This is just the beginning of a new era - where smart entreprenuers like Peter show us how to make money from micro-content.
Congrats to Peter and the WhizSpark team!
No wonder he’s been so busy. But NOT too busy to help start OpenEvents!
Here’s [...]

Here’s Peter Caputa’s reaction to Stowe Boyd’s ideas on making money with social networking. The one thing we’re ALL in agreement with - it ain’t “pay to play”.
Here’s Peter’s post:

In reference to Ryze’s recent changes, Stowe has spouted some predictions on what biz models will work:
In the final analysis, I bet that pay-for-play won’t [...]

Auren Hoffman just spent nine months analyzing the acuuracy and results of all the major search engines.
He notices lots of descrepancies and inaccuracies.
Me too.
I’m currently at 46,900. There’s one other Marc Canter out there running around. He’s the manager/owener at Canter’s Deli on Fairfax in West Hollywood.

Anyway Auren’s report is interesting.

Nick Graydos responded to my response:

Marc responded to my post last week about Digital Life Recorders and Digital Lifestyle Aggregators.
He brings up some interesting points about:

usability
backup
situated software
social interfaces

This is a tall order for any piece of software.
The key is in the word aggregators - note that the word is plural with an “s.” 
We’ll be using [...]