I wish I were as smart as Marc. Love his blog. - Robert Scoble

"Why would I agree to do it live when you couldn't get it right after 5 takes, you troglodyte homunculus?" hahaha - Jeremy Raines

Nice video. I don't think he was out-of-hand. Getting a little upset isn't bad for you. Traditional business, though, has certain "rules" though which depend on how powerful you are, whether you are in public, etc... - Mitchell Tsai

thanks, marc, for all your wonderful posts. - Min Liu

Very persuasively argued, as usual -- unfortunately, Marc is also totally wrong :-) - mathew ingram

The Enron analogy -- mark-to-market death spiral & exploding off balance sheet entities -- is scarily apt. Remembering how fast it can happen, especially. - Jeremy Raines

But if you actually use it, they'll kill your connection... - Marc Andreessen

$149 a month? YIkes. - Dan Keldsen

If their current practices are any indication, what you'll be getting will be more like 30Mbps - Charlie via Alert Thingy

Cable modem bandwidth is affected by the number of subscribers using the same headend, right? So the more popular it gets without the cable company adding more infrastructure, the less you get. The only way they could guarantee bandwidth is by limiting subscribers use per headend, or automatically adding new headends when the subscriber use exceeds the limit. - Chris White

Any network can develop bottlenecks if the operator doesn't bother to build out capacity to keep up with load. I feel like cable headends are just one of many things that could get slow. Either Comcast is serious about delivering bandwidth, or they're not... they do seem to feel that burst bandwidth is a key differentiator of theirs, but bulk/continuous bandwidth is not what they want to sell. - ⓞnor

Or at least after the guy that keeps kicking them. - Dan Hsiao

Save yourself! Buy this book: http://tiny.cc/6muyL - Rob Long

Indeed very good post. I'm expecting the "White Knight" option. - cem

I really hope that MS doesn't use the proxy fight option - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

"As for the events that were not in his life, those that occurred in the lives of other people in other places, of what possible interest could they be to him? The idea that a human being could be instructed or amused by the fortunes of a stranger was as foreign to a European back then as a land across the sea. The world outside one's immediate ken was a place of mystery, not a source of enlightenment." - Paul Buchheit

"No intermediary was required to give voice or meaning to the events in his life." So we come full circle with the invention of the blog ;) - Clare Dibble

We can't do better, so let's just attack the blogs. So desperate! - Ashwin Bharambe

plus it never mentions the number of reporters that have become alcoholics and/or divorced - Steven Hodson

I think this was, indeed, a pretty sensationalist and generally crappy article. With that said, though, it justifiably highlights IMHO the asinine pace at which many folks seem to demand "updates." If you find out about an electronic toy (:cough: new iPhone, etc.) a day earlier, is your life really that much richer? If you don't get that extra helping of "celebrity" gossip, is your life less meaningful? Or, put more bluntly, does the hyperspeed of info we demand (and many unhealthily strive to meet)... - Adam Lasnik

... really make us happier overall? - Adam Lasnik

Just finished reading this article and came online to share with FF, only to discover others had beat me to it. ; ) I find the reactions interesting though. Besides Adam, most people are saying, "Oh they're just jealous." That is much scarier to me than the article itself. What does it say about an industry when an article hinting we should slow down a little is met with a chorus of "Wimps!" - Carla Thompson

And by 'inalienable' I mean 'my attempt to similarly divert attention away from domestic problems'... - Marc Andreessen

As a Psychology major, and entrepreneur, and also a Therapist for several years, I can certainly appreciate this post. - Alex Hammer

Great post; I write about Obama and his interest in Internet tools further here: http://mathoda.com/archives/18... - Ranjit Mathoda

So smart of you to be able to do this and get the time with him also!! Great sharing of insightful impressions. - Alex Hammer