Opinionated

I will be at the Campbell Barnes & Noble tonight debating author Andrew Keen and his debating partner Nick Carr.
Joining me will be Steve Gilmor and the moderator is Dan Farber of ZDNet. Here is an excerpt from Andrew’s Blog.
Nick Carr’s Big Switch by ZDNet’s Andrew Keen — Nicholas Carr, amongst the most incisive [...]

As the title says I have been tagged by Dave Winer.
The rules say I now have to tell you 5 things you didn’t know about me and then tag five others.
So, here goes:
1. I am currently in St James, Cape Town, S Africa. It is a small area between Muizenberg and Fish Hoek (see map).
2. [...]

In response to the current discussion on Techmeme and TailRank hipmojo writes that the Pareto principle is in play on the internet and that no matter how much we want it to be otherwise 80% of online advertising will go to 20% of the web sites.
When the dust settles, the top 20% of websites will [...]

Bob Wyman of Pubsub has posted a response to the Techdirt post about CraigsList and edgeio. I think Bob’s post is great. I’m almost embarrassed I didn’t say it myself. My only excuse is I was kind of taking the openness of edgeio as a given. But Bob is right. It needs spelling out.

I posted to the comments on Rob Hof’s BusinessWeek Online blog this morning. A reader has said that edgeio’s new features make it “like CraigsList” and implied that edgeio’s distinctiveness was threatened.
I’m re-posting it here because there are some themes in it that I think are important to expose.
Here is my reply:
Rob,
Thanks for writing about [...]