Jason Calacanis took exception to my statements that what he’s doing is the same as what we did with Marqui:

100% incorrect my friend. You may not have told people if they had to write a positive or negative review, but you did force them to write about Marqui. We on the other hand told folks […]

I’m working on our V 1.2 launch/presentation and I want to tell a story:
It all started with enabling people to:
- create things and express themselves
- empower folks - and get them self organizing to become activists
- build communities - and connect measpace to cyberspace
- make money, pay the bills, buy things, make a living off […]

Jeremy Owyang writes about corporate awareness of social media:
Senior Management at many Fortune 1000 companies still lack awareness, strong belief in Social Media or resources a large percent of budget.
Social Media is more than adding trackbacks and comments to a press release, it’s about accepting that bottom up knowledge from the masses can be greater […]

Hugh MacLeod accused me of being an Original Thinker when we were in Cork, Ireland recently.
I was struck w th how boring all the speakers were and how much fun it was to listen to Hugh.  Both of us also spoke at LeWeb3 - so I was running into Hugh quite a lot.
I just spent […]

Congratulations to my brothers at ProfileLinker on closing an Angel round and moving out here.  The bad news is that the fried chicken and ribs sucks out here.  And the bagels - too. But clearly they know where Mecca is and if they’re going to suck up to - and make all these social networks […]

Its great to hear that Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg are extending their D conference 365/24/7 with an -on-line version of it.  This is the same thing I suggested to Tony Perkins and Kevin Werbach in 2004, Chris Pirillo, Ponzi and Doug Gold last year and to Rafat Ali this year.  And it looks like […]

After a day like yesterday - its hard to compete.
No Mimi - everyday can’t be like X-Mas, but we can blog some more…..
Congrats to Clearspring on their Colts Widget deal.  I wonder how much the Colts are paying for their SNS?
Valleriewag rocks
12 years ago when I first tried to do video on the web, I […]

X-Mas day is the day for Jews to eat Chinese Food and go to the Movies.  We did our part this evening, after spending all day in our pajamas opening up presents and making little girls very happy.  You see - my wife is a Schiksa - so my daughters get the best of both […]

Last night during X-Mas eve services, they recited Luke2:8-21. 
I was sitting in the choir, giving my wife the best X-Mas present I could give here - ”singing in the choir for X-Mas eve services”.  So they start reciting:
“There were shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And Lo, an angel of […]

We used to say “The Funkiest Man alive” - but he’s not alive anymore.
God Bless James Brown. 
Xeni has some good links.
Needless to say this guy changed my life.  As a young man on teh South side of Chicago I knew of the blues, but I also knew of Motown and this other ‘thing’ - called […]