“10 years was about the right amount of time for any CEO to stay at the helm of a company.” Meg Whitman Personally I think 10 might be a little too long to be in any position or any company for that matter.  Eight and eject seems more in line to me.

“Does Facebook really connect people? Doesn’t it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he […]

"The scariest thing about Stanley Kubrick’s vision wasn’t that computers started to act like people but that people had started to act like computers.  We’re beginning to process information as if we’re nodes; it’s all about the speed of locating and reading data.  We’re transferring our intelligence into the machine, and the machine is transferring […]

"You Get What You Give." Fred Wilson In this most excellent post.  While you are over there you should check out his top releases of 2007 list.  Always a good source for some tunes.

“The perspective that Hillary Clinton is offering that 250k in annual earnings qualifies you as rich is not only ridiculous but its a huge disincentive to those who work their asses off every day and have accomplished a salary that rewards their hard work… Right now I hate paying taxes because I feel like I’m […]

"We’ve made a lot of mistakes …, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them.  We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it." Mark Zuckerberg Fair enough.  Time to move on and stop beating Facebook and Mark to death.

"Emails from Facebook aren’t helpful messages, they’re eyeball bait." Cory Doctorow

“It was just incredible.” Me in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Startup Weekend

"Open platforms shouldn’t be about big company political battles." David Recordon In a presentation at Web2Expo.  Courtesy of Brian Oberkirch.

"You can always divorce your spouse, you can’t divorce your VC." Alan Taetle