Journalism
Mike Arrington has put up a long post on CrunchNotes explaining why Sam Sethi was sacked, from his point of view. Itās a very different one to the story Sethi has been promoting: The actions that resulted in his dismissal were additional comments he wrote on that second post,
leweb
Pat Phelan at Roam4free has confirmed that the ādisappearing postā I noticed in the TechCrunch UK feed earlier does indeed mean that Sam Sethi has been fired for his posts about Le Web 3. Update: OK, now this post has vanished. What the hell is going on here? Update 2:
leweb
Iām back in RBI towers after my sojourn in Paris, and finally had the chance to check my feeds. My, oh my, the reaction is just growing and growing isnāt it? Tom Morris is continuing his superb job of collating the reaction to LePolitics3. Oh, and LoĆÆc has
france
So, the political roadshow continues with the arrival of not-yet-a-French Presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy arriving with a huge media pack in tow. So, what does he have to say to us eager bloggers? Well, I canāt help feeling heās not talking to us, but to the attending French
danah boyd
How MySpace displaced Friendster ā and how teens navigate the dangers of predators and parents.
advertising
Another panel, this time about selling online. (Transactions! Hurrah!) There was some discussion of allowing users to create their own products, through a community of creativity using an online service to create and sell their work. This is the Cafe Press model. Googleās domination of traffic can be broken,
Blogging
Thereās something wrong with a panel where the participants are trying to figure out what the panelās about half way throughā¦ A few notable things: SocialText [http://www.socialtext.com/] has 2,000 customers for its wikis, slightly over double last year. Lee Bryant of Headshift [http://www.
community
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/319582116/] Reid Hoffman, one of the founders of LinkedIn [http://www.linkedin.com/], is giving a rambling vision of the future, so Iām going to match it with a rambling summary of what heās saying. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/319582116/
Blogging
Dave Sifry of Technorati [http://www.technorati.com/] is up and giving the live version of his State of the Blogosphere speech. One interesting thing he has pointed out is that there are spikes of blog activity whenever a major world event happens. And now, heās begging the French
leweb
For a brief chat with other Brits over lunch, the verdict on the conference so far is āmixedā. The big companies panels has been universally slated, because none of them really said anything, and a few people commented on the latent aggressions from the VCsā¦ On to the afternoon session.
bubble
Here comes the VCsā¦ Is there a web bubble? It seems not, but there are some issues to be resolved. For example, is the available talent split amongst too many small start-ups? Would some mergers pull more talent together? The lack of a market bubble may be attributable to Sarbanes-Oxley,
leweb
Oh, by the way, I forgot, Shimon Peres [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3887605.stm] will be addressing the conference tomorrow. Blimey.