Daily Archives: October 28th, 2005

Beattie not finding startups with any depth

Russell Beattie, who works at Yahoo, has a great post today where he takes on a lot of the hype around new companies that are springing up like mushrooms around the world. I visited a few of these startups this week and I too didn’t find the next Microsoft or Google. But, if I took [...]

Bloggers up in arms about Forbes cover

Dan Gillmor: Forbes Trashy Blog Attack.Steve Rubel: Forbes Cover Story Blows It, Calling Bloggers Lynch Mobs
Watch Memeorandum on this one.
What do I think?
We are being played. What’s a better way to remind the online world you exist? Attack. I bet they have more traffic in this 24-hour period than they’ll have in the past month.
There [...]

Sitting here with Buzz talking about Google’s Zeitgeist conference

I’m sitting here with Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords. He picked me up from the airport tonight. I have spent the last few hours telling him all about the Google Zeitgeist conference.
They asked me not to blog about it, mostly because some of the executives that spoke there from Google competitors asked to have [...]

To my son, Maryam has blogging advice

Maryam has some good blogging advice for Patrick, our new blogger in the family. She wrote me a nice little poem. I love that!