Links on a Sunny Day
No I don’t wanna make my East Coast friends jealous, just point out that life in California is fairly idealic. If you’re the right coast, we’re not only the left coast - but also the correct coast. 
The story can now be told - my buddies (and clients) at Clearspring just closed a round - with lots of famous people as investors. And they’re doing coolio stuff - too.
Patent office to consider ‘community input’? Well I can give them my opinion of the Friendster patent right now.
Walking the fine line between too many choices - and enough options: Best Practices discussion with Marc Canter. Getting to know Mukund Mohan and his company has been a treat. We’re looking forward to partnering with them.
Looks like I’ll be seeing Jason Calacanis in Amsterdam on June 1st. Hmmm - maybe we need to do a birthday party there - the next night!
Congrats to Lilia Effimova on becoming a mommy!
How to break your addiction to Conferences - by Chris Pirillo
Adam Green has gotten Angel funding and added Dan Bricklin to his board. The funny thing is that one of Adam’s Angel investors is Bruce Twickler - who was the CEO of Hayden Software 23 years ago - and our first publisher. How’s that for a small world!
Since I’m not going to SXSW - Robert needs someone else to go to Salt Lick with him. Two years in a row - I waited for Robert - who held us up -so we never made it out to Salt Lick. Now he gets to go without me.
They’re finally connecting Fox shows with MySpace profiles. Coolio