Loved this bit: "[…] For us lucky Brits this [visit by American blogeratti] represents a unique opportunity – an opportunity to complain loudly that we don't need a bunch of soi-disant social media rock stars coming over here and telling us how to run our industry. And then, after that, an opportunity to skulk off to the pub and mutter quietly among ourselves about what London needs to do to become as cool and successful as Silicon Valley. […]"
- ianf ⌘
I agree, wonderful piece. Very interested in what Paul Carr is going to report on it.
- Ton Zijp
Sad that the whole situation has come to this.
- Jamie
Could we get Arrington and/or Sethi to pledge their brains to science after they expire? Perhaps by dissecting them, and comparing to Einstein's own (which is housed in a jar at Princeton), we could learn something valuable from it, I dunno, "Ego measured by cortex unipolar deflections in brains of early XXI century Internet entrepreneurs" or something. A petition anyone?
- ianf ⌘