BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. The Sunday, March 12 panel on Women and Visibility at SxSW has been canceled. update Point of clarification: I was given responsibility for this panel, unexpectedly, late Monday afternoon. Because of the number of panel members who had dropped out, I made a call to cancel. The SxSW organizers did […]
Recently, I was the target of recruiters for a well known company. I wasn’t particularly interested in working for the company, especially since it meant I would have to move back to the Silicon Valley area (something I didn’t want to do). The recruiters were nice, and I was flattered. However, I was also aware […]
Bob Wyman has made a point of clarifying that Structured Blogging is a thing you do not a format. This is a good point to make, because there has been some strong association between the first release SB-generated metadata format, and the concept of Structured Blogging, itself. The SB plugins can be (and are being) modified to […]
Dare Obasanjo wrote a post about flipping your Web 2.0 startup and gave three reasons why a bigger company would gobble up a startup: users, technology, and people. Paul Kedrosky replied that Dare was wrong, wrong, wrong and that building companies to flip is also wrong, wrong, wrong. I happen to agree (agree, agree) somewhat with Mr. Kedrosky, in […]
If the measure to allow oil drilling in ANWR was as noble and worthy as those who say it is, it wouldn’t have to be snuck in the back door, attached to other measures. I thought this measure had been stopped, but evidentally, it had only been stalled. President Bush spent the first few years of his […]