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"Dave, I hear your point and agree; but we still need aggregation and curation of the "million personal blogging silos" in order for it to be manageable/consumable for the average news reader. The search cost of finding each individual blog/news source is high, and extremely hard without a social network or a search engine. Newspapers et al provide that curation now, and it costs something. Twitter and Facebook are free. That's the trade-off we're making. Moreover, other social networks -- Tumblr, for example -- have the same basic business model as Facebook and Twitter and will likely exhibit the same behaviors if given the chance. Where do we go from here? How does the open Internet handle curation and aggregation? Is it as simple as a few individual sources taking it upon themselves, and building readership from there?" - Alex Gordon

"Dave, I hear your point and agree; but we still need aggregation and curation of the "million personal blogging silos" in order for it to be manageable/consumable for the average news reader. The search cost of finding each individual blog/news source is high, and extremely hard without a social network or a search engine. Newspapers et al provide that curation now, and it costs something. Twitter and Facebook are free. That's the trade-off we're making. Moreover, other social networks -- Tumblr, for example -- have the same basic business model as Facebook and Twitter and will likely exhibit the same behaviors if given the chance. Where do we go from here? How does the open Internet handle curation and aggregation? Is it as simple as a few individual sources taking it upon themselves, and building readership from there?" - Alex Gordon

"Congrats buddy! Awesome news. I've been doing distance NYC-SF and it's not so bad -- I'll be out there a couple times over the next few months. Hope we can get together. Good luck!" - Alex Gordon

"Congrats buddy! Awesome news. I've been doing distance NYC-SF and it's not so bad -- I'll be out there a couple times over the next few months. Hope we can get together. Good luck!" - Alex Gordon

"I think both of those are totally fair, and I should have noted that I see the main inference you point out. But I think there is more at work that has to do with the party that is totally out of power causing political gridlock that mutes stock market returns. Or, that sharing the pie causes more to actually get accomplish, leading to better returns. Above all it's amazing that 'RRR' is dead last, given the general stereotypes about Republican priorities and business." - Alex Gordon

"I think both of those are totally fair, and I should have noted that I see the main inference you point out. But I think there is more at work that has to do with the party that is totally out of power causing political gridlock that mutes stock market returns. Or, that sharing the pie causes more to actually get accomplish, leading to better returns. Above all it's amazing that 'RRR' is dead last, given the general stereotypes about Republican priorities and business." - Alex Gordon

"I think both of those are totally fair, and I should have noted that I see the main inference you point out. But I think there is more at work that has to do with the party that is totally out of power causing political gridlock that mutes stock market returns. Or, that sharing the pie causes more to actually get accomplish, leading to better returns. Above all it's amazing that 'RRR' is dead last, given the general stereotypes about Republican priorities and business." - Alex Gordon

"To your point about average users, Bijan, I think most people (myself included) have not been so discriminating with their Facebook network: I have close to 1K Facebook friends but only 150 on Foursquare. I also think that it's useful to have location services generally separate from "regular" news feeds (Facebook and Twitter, for example). Foursquare is a great silo for location-specific updates. You can make a similar argument for gaming: lots of people play Farmville and MafiaWars, but how many want a ton of updates about those games in their news feed? I fleshed out these ideas in a post on Friday: http://bit.ly/dxYD57" - Alex Gordon

"To your point about average users, Bijan, I think most people (myself included) have not been so discriminating with their Facebook network: I have close to 1K Facebook friends but only 150 on Foursquare. I also think that it's useful to have location services generally separate from "regular" news feeds (Facebook and Twitter, for example). Foursquare is a great silo for location-specific updates. You can make a similar argument for gaming: lots of people play Farmville and MafiaWars, but how many want a ton of updates about those games in their news feed? I fleshed out these ideas in a post on Friday: http://bit.ly/dxYD57" - Alex Gordon

"To your point about average users, Bijan, I think most people (myself included) have not been so discriminating with their Facebook network: I have close to 1K Facebook friends but only 150 on Foursquare. I also think that it's useful to have location services generally separate from "regular" news feeds (Facebook and Twitter, for example). Foursquare is a great silo for location-specific updates. You can make a similar argument for gaming: lots of people play Farmville and MafiaWars, but how many want a ton of updates about those games in their news feed? I fleshed out these ideas in a post on Friday: http://bit.ly/dxYD57" - Alex Gordon

"I did get the double rainbow! Faint and just to the left of the pine tree." - Alex Gordon

"I did get the double rainbow! Faint and just to the left of the pine tree." - Alex Gordon

"I did get the double rainbow! Faint and just to the left of the pine tree." - Alex Gordon

Clay Shirky book: "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age." - Alex Gordon

How has the decision by the Detroit papers to reduce home delivery days played out? - Alex Gordon

Top down vs. bottom up, good on methodology - Alex Gordon

Good interactive illustration - Alex Gordon

What the future of Magazines may look like. Who says we need to go right to left? Make it a map. - Alex Gordon

"I'd like to read that post too." - Alex Gordon

"I'd like to read that post too." - Alex Gordon

"I'd like to read that post too." - Alex Gordon

GQ - Alex Gordon

"Amsterdam bt 83/84." - Alex Gordon

"Amsterdam bt 83/84." - Alex Gordon

"Amsterdam bt 83/84." - Alex Gordon

By Nick Bilton - Alex Gordon

The Media Equation - Alex Gordon

Beyond the goofy games is a world of useful programs that's making fortunes and changing the rules of business - Alex Gordon

"That Breakingviews stuck to its plan and succeeded is, I agree, remarkable. My sense is that opinion/hard-hitting analysis has generally been thought to be more valuable than straight news, in terms of dollars and cents, over the past few years. My takeaway from these deals is that companies that want to own news and analysis content -- i.e. traditional journalism -- also realize the need to have separate, more stable and high margin sources of income. Bloomberg and ThomsonReuters have their established data businesses and Dow Jones is supported by News Corp., which rakes in enough money from many sources worldwide (especially TV) to support significant ongoing investment in Dow Jones' growth, in addition to sustaining the perpetually money-losing New York Post. McGraw-Hill has S but, it would seem, couldn't make the balance work as the other companies in similar positions have. Bloomberg said they wanted BusinessWeek to have a more direct line into the C-suite, which makes sense to..." - Alex Gordon

"That Breakingviews stuck to its plan and succeeded is, I agree, remarkable. My sense is that opinion/hard-hitting analysis has generally been thought to be more valuable than straight news, in terms of dollars and cents, over the past few years. My takeaway from these deals is that companies that want to own news and analysis content -- i.e. traditional journalism -- also realize the need to have separate, more stable and high margin sources of income. Bloomberg and ThomsonReuters have their established data businesses and Dow Jones is supported by News Corp., which rakes in enough money from many sources worldwide (especially TV) to support significant ongoing investment in Dow Jones' growth, in addition to sustaining the perpetually money-losing New York Post. McGraw-Hill has S&P but, it would seem, couldn't make the balance work as the other companies in similar positions have. Bloomberg said they wanted BusinessWeek to have a more direct line into the C-suite, which makes sense to..." - Alex Gordon