“We’re diluting both our management and our resources by focusing on two brands.”
Salon.com CEO Elizabeth Hambrecht, on putting The Well on the auction block, News.com, 16 August 2005
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Alex works as a reverse engineer for Automattic Inc.
FINDING YOUR SENSE OF REPURPOSE
“Typically we’re not going to repurpose a fashion show as a podcast. But an interview with Kate Hudson, that would work fine.”
Bernard Gershon, a digital-media executive with the ABC television network, on finding another way to avoid creating original content for the Web, Wired News, 15 August 2005
KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES IN AN AIR-CONDITIONED
“I exist for business reasons. I do not exist as a PR stunt or as sort of an olive branch.”
Bill Hilf, director of a Linux computer lab at Microsoft, distinguishing himself from, say, his colleagues who are paid to blog, News.com, 12 August 2005
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON LITIGATED
“The goal remains for us to separate spammers from their money.”
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, on the company’s policy of treating spammers just like the rest of its customers, Wired News, 9 August 2005
DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW
“Why did we stick with Linux? … It was because we could keep on doing exactly what we wanted.”
Google open-source program manager Chris DiBona, on the search engine’s discovery of yet another way to ignore the outside world, Computerworld, 10 August 2005
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