THE TRANSPARENT SOCIETY MEETS THE INVISIBLE HAND

“A more personal lesson also emerged: As an entrepreneur, let’s just say I wasn’t in my element.”

Citizen businessman Dan Gillmor, on his failure to turn a profit from blogging, Bayosphere, 24 January 2006

IPOD, THEREFORE I AM

“I think there’s a little of technology kind of wagging the dog.”

ABC executive Steve McPherson, showing his political savvy by dissing the products of future Disney board member Steve Jobs, Reuters, 22 January 2006

BRADY’S REASONS WHY NOT

“”Because a significant number of folks who have posted in this blog have refused to follow any of those relatively simple rules, we’ve decided not to allow comments for the time being.”

Washingtonpost.com executive editor Jim Brady, on closing a blog to comments after experiencing the kind of pointless vitriol Usenet readers have been enjoying for decades, The New York Times, 20 January 2006

THE DEATH OF SOFTWARE

“We don’t want outages and we’re doing everything we can not to have them, but we’ll occasionally have them.”

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, on the inevitable downtime downside of Web-based software, News.com, 17 January 2006

KEEPING UP WITH THE GOOGLERS

“It’s like we built our house first and someone came along and built an even better house.”

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, on competing with those Mountain View arrivistes, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 January 2006