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I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but I’m going to do it.
Yesterday, Dave Winer ranted about how blogs have become an ecosystem of recycled conversations about an original thought that happened long ago. Even so, I am going to talk about a post that Dave Winer wrote this weekend.
No, not that post, [...]

The big news in the blog world today is the $2.75 million in funding received by Publish2, a startup founded by former GigaOM contributors Robert Young and Scott Karp. I wrote about the company quite some time ago and still have not seen a working prototype, a worrisome sign in my book.
One of the [...]

AT&T, the San Antonio, Texas-based phone company, is going through some executive changes and making some cuts in its big VP corps, sources tell me. Cutting costs at this level shows that Ma Bell’s C-Suite is worried about today’s economic realities.
First the juicy bit: Ma Bell is offering packages to VP-level executives in the hopes [...]

They’re just throwing darts at a wall. Or worse…

“Oh, Look! Mr. Peepers just picked the very same [startups] your investment software did!”

OK, venture capital may be slightly more sophisticated than this — but I have trouble with VCs who nobly claim that their business has more risk than any other, and in the very next […]

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Comcast is moving away from the much criticized practice of blocking P2P traffic, and instead is looking at alternatives to rein in a small group of Comcast customers that can be labeled bandwidth hogs. Comcast Cable’s CTO explains.