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| Friday, July 27, 2001 |
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There's hope for Redmond after all 
Even worse, we ate most of the eggs
| | Looks like a pile of VCs were in town this week too, giving Don Clark a chance to treat us to irony-free quotes like this: |
| | "The cessation of capital will shut off 18 months of innovation," predicted Marc Benioff, chairman of Salesforce.com, a San Francisco start-up that hopes to turn profitable in the first quarter of next year. "If I hadn't raised $65 million last year, we would not have been able to achieve profitability. Where would I get the money today?" |
| | A couple days ago, I got the best quote of the week from a cabbie, who offered this explanation for the dot-com bust: |
| | It's a chicken-and-egg thing, only we killed the chickens and it'll take awhile before the eggs grow up. |
Bareband
| | I pause to observe that there are few pleasures more civilized than blogging naked over a fat line from a well-connected room in a fine hotel. |
Square Zero
| | Here's  a number to watch: 456. That's how many pages, as of this morning (6am PDST) Google finds containing the word "egosystem." I have a feeling we're going to change that. Given the concern by Craig Mundie and his open source debate opponents for the "software ecosystem," and the persistent power of that system's ego-based alternatives — and the ease with which one can substitute one word for the other with little loss in meaning — it's a safe bet that this number will start climbing fast. |
Good dog, spike
| | Says here we had 15990 visits when we got Slashdotted yesterday. That's about a 10x increase over the day before (and today, so far). Here's another view. Sroll past all the Slashdot referrers and find gems like this. Und diese. |
| | And news that Matt bought Cluetrain. The market persists. |
Cross-blogination
Midward moves
| | Here's Brian Behlendorf trying to bring some sanity to argument over adjectives like open, free and shared. Bravo. At least Brian is saying out loud what a lot of others are saying quietly, off the record, or not at all. |
Flacklash
| | The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," ... "The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive.... |
| | What the fuck is this basic economic law they are talking about? Please, somebody explain this to me. I beg you to show me the light. |
Webbing the tubes
| | My own experience since I got a TiVo is typical of every other subscriber I've spoken with. To put it simply, I watch more TV now, but fewer commercials. Furthermore, I have no sense of when and on what channel a program originally aired. Take those usage patterns and extend them to tens of millions of homes -- which will happen as the devices and services become more affordable -- and broadcast industry economics no longer add up. |
| | Interesting how adding value to the bait subtracts value from the fish — namely, the viewers that stations and networks sell to advertisers. |
TGIF
| | I planned to fix all of yesterday's mistakes and typos, but I think I'll let it ride. I'll go over the tape later today on the train, and write up the rest of the conference by Monday for Linux Journal. Meanwhile maybe it's better to leave be the thing that got me Slashdotted. |
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