Morrie the Toupee Salesman

New lows (or I mean highs this week). I’ve had to edit my list of top unpromoted stories because clearly there’s a new kind of bucket created specifically for Jon Gruber. Doesn’t show up in the API, search, anywhere. So I’ve manually added it. The rank is arbitrary, so I’ve made it no. 1 (where [...]

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I’m talking next week at the Code Factory for the Ottawa eBusiness Cluster – title of the talk will be “2 Years in Web 2.0 Land: What I Learned.” Right now I’m thinking something themed around this classic Hugh MacLeod cartoon:

but I guess I need to expand it some.
Also coming up, I’ll be talking at [...]

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“Greenspan, who presents similar claims to have had an uncredited role in Facebook’s origins, said he has no intention of suing the company. He has, however, plunged into a quixotic and surprisingly adept legal effort to challenge the company’s registered trademark. In addition, he’s using the experience of publicly criticizing Facebook to inform his own [...]

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Hacker News might be banning valleywag. Michael Arrington crows. Valleywag is basically a techcrunch competitor. They report on the same companies, the same people. The difference is the editorial slant. Instead of the hushed reverence of the business press, they have a tabloid mentality. So basically they’re being banned not for their content, or for [...]

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Reading this article in the NYT one thing jumped right out me. No, not the intergenerational shift in news consumption, though that’s part of it. No, not the observation that people in their twenties have way more friends than I do, that’s just common sense. No, it was the sudden intrusion of what’s probably a [...]

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“Techmeme is a template for a gazillion me-too bloggers who manage to write a dozen posts a day without ever expressing an original thought. That, depressingly, appears to be a successful business model, at least for now.”
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From one Gary Vaynerchuck. If by “good” he means content-free and by “bad” he means “intelligent,” then I’m 100% in agreement. I’m gonna do the opposite of a hat tip to Scott Beale this time – I want my 2 minutes back, Scott, bill in the mail.

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“It’s clear that the real growth in the Web 2.0 sector is happening outside of the Bay Area”
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9896632-7.html

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I had a minor traffic spike yesterday, unusual since I haven’t posted much lately. I assume it’s because some people out there wanted to see if I had an opinion on the latest digg rumor and the latest Jay Adelson denial of that rumor. On the denial, shouldn’t MS or Google people be denying it? [...]

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Love the Dave Winer comment here:
“…At a blogging conference, an open discussion, a young person asked me how much a guy my age could really understand about blogs.”
ex·pe·ri·ence
-noun
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4. knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone:a man of experience.
In my experience (and I have experienced similar comments) arrogance is a [...]

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