1) Listening to esoteric stuff no-one has ever heard of makes you “smart�

2) Excuse to hang-out with a crowd half their age

3) Bands go nowhere without money

4) …Being the money-guy makes you important

5) Bands have clear business models and distribution channels. Oh wait…

6) Blogs! Blog dominated communications

7) Activity Epicenters: San Francisco & New York

8)  Schwag!

9) “Due Diligence� is still done over cocktails

10) Lots of skinny white dudes in t-shirts

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My friend Adam was told in jest that he would “need to submit a video resume� before a particular young woman would ever consider taking him to an upcoming wedding as her date.

This is what she received…

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Hilarious!

A nice little cat fight this afternoon between Techcrunch (Michael Arrington), Loic Le Meur (Founder of Seesmic) and Dive Wine…oh Jeff Clavier chimed in too. Making it notable is that Arrington is an investor in Seesmic and this follows on the tail of another recent skermish with A VC. Are these more traffic generators, or simply boys with too much time and not enough women things to do?

I have pieced together the conversations in reverse order…

Arrington:

Loic Lemur:

Dave Winer:

Jeff Clavier (the only sane one!):

Sorry that this post deviates from the norm but interested to see what playing Valleywag feels like :)

I’ve been enjoying the blog Apartment Therapy, New York. I love this cartoon adaptation…

Pretty funny post by a guy desperate to get his hands on a Blackberry Curve

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Dan Lyons kills me!

I came across a very interesting graphic on religion in America (Click to see in full):

If churches are the original and largest social networks, it makes sense to examine how trends among church-goers are playing out over time.

A couple interesting observations point to mass /mainstream worship moving in a niche direction:

- The influence of the central, program-based congregation is diminishing as more cell churches are being created

- Many Christians have left congregations and formed house churches – small groups meeting in each other’s homes

Over the last two weeks there have been some crazy happenings in the world of media consumption…

• Steve Jobs informed us that 40% of Americans read one book, or less last year
• Gawker Media decided to rip on an innocent girl for once being overweight and the audience ate it up
• The AP [Reuters] declared, “Now and for the foreseeable future, virtually everything involving Britney is a big deal.â€� Um, isn’t there a war and an election going on?
• Facebook, the social networking site, sponsored a Presidential debate
• It became clear that market bears have influence disproportionate to their accuracy. Matt Drudge continues to make up imaginary headlines
• Hilary cried her way to a victory and then launched attack websites. Huh?
• The “investorsâ€� who cloned Facebook in Germany and sold the fake for $100€ end up using the money to actually invest in Facebook

2008 is going to be interesting!

The Urban Dictionary is a great site: See here

‘Frigtard’ is a great new word:  Frig (derivative of fuck) + tard (retard) = frigtard (fucking retard)

Urban Dictionary’s example of frigtard used in a sentence is priceless: “That frigtard thinks Windows is a superior operating system to Mac OS Xâ€�