Adam Curry‘s Daily Source Code is a good podcast. Keeping it real he points out today (around minute 4:30) that in preparing for the Gilmour Gang participants expressed strong anti-Bush opinions… but “no one spoke with the same passion during the actual taping even though the elections did come up… it always amazes me how the minute the microphone turns on then all of a sudden… everyone takes a stupid pill and we’re not real anymore.” I’d like to have heard the pre-taping discussion!

Grit before pearls
Ben Schott has a go at the paradoxical blandness of supposedly disruptive startups: Welcome to your bland new world. It’s easy to get stuck in