Will Pate asks an interesting question: What is the best reasoning behind why shareholders have limited liability for a corporation’s environmental and social costs? Not on a case by case basis, but why it is the blueprint for the most […]

Given the engineering orientation of the Valley, and the technology bent of our firm, it’s no surprise that well over half the entrepreneurs pitching have some technological market lead at the core of their business. Most of the remainder will […]

(By guest blogger Kevin Laws, former entertainment industry consultant and current venture investor) It’s not too late for the motion picture industry to avoid the music industry’s fate Several months ago, I predicted that the motion picture industry would learn […]

Ross Mayfield pulls together more evidence that displacement of viewing time by new media is well underway. Though – as I point out below, newspapers are the most overpriced advertising medium, the evidence suggests that all exposure based advertising models […]

Wiith a variety of surveys suggesting that Internet usage cannibalizes television viewing, one might think TV is the most threatened medium as the market ecology changes. An Economist survey article on advertising suggests that choice might be selecting the wrong goat: A graph […]

Joel Spolsky’s latest is a valuable SITREP on the ongoing Platform Wars between Microsoft and everyone else. If you are a software developer or entrepreneur, read the whole thing. For others, his thesis is that Microsoft itself has destabilized developer […]

Via danah boyd: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. “It illustrates how tightly linked the value proposition and operating […]

An e-mail all the way from Argentina cited my HyperCard eulogy and informed me that the product had been mentioned in Tim Berners-Lee’s original WWW proposal. Son of a gun, there it is. I never knew that. The same search […]

To the surprise of few, Apple’s Hypercard passed away quietly this week, after life support was finally withdrawn by the company. It had a run of over 16 years – though the last were in circumstances of at best benign […]

That greeting – a reference to Orkut’s friend link request dialog – has become the tag line of the Etech week. I snickered when I first heard it, paid attention the second time, then got hit with it myself by […]