"backstory" entries

Dan Fost reported on the confrontation between Lou Reed and the audience at the Web 2.0 conference, and described how I got the audience up and dancing "in a desperate attempt to save the show." Dan described the events correctly, but not the motivation. I'd actually missed Lou's badmouthing of the audience after the first two songs — I was…

During last year's Web 2.0 conference, when everyone was saying "the bubble is back," I decried all the bubble blowing and said that it isn't a bubble if everyone knows it is. Really being in a bubble is like swimming in the proverbial goldfish bowl: you can't see beyond the walls. I ended by saying, "I think it's too early…

I love looking at the "What they'll invest" lines from this Business 2.0 article about ideas some VCs want to fund: "$3 million for a working application" "$5 million for a team of five engineers to create a prototype in less than two years" "$2 million for a working demo application" "$3 million for a demo application and retail partners…

John Gruber (of Daring Fireball) has a fantastic analysis of Apple's "Showtime" announcements from earlier in this week. Go check it out. I was just glad that Apple didn't make the mistake I saw coming — charging me once for The Incredibles and then again for Quicktime to watch it full-screen. When I went to the Quicktime download page to…