How Bill Gates Would Repair Our Schools

I wanted to keep my post in that thread, so here it is:

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I has absolutely the best acoustics and site lines of any live music venue anywhere. You're right in there with the talent. It's so intimate and immersive. The engineers are top notch and everything always sounds amazing there. Oh, and beer.

Tank! by Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack

I’d like to know what others think though.

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And excellent summary and interpretation (read, real journalism) by Kara Swisher of Mike Arrington’s embargo spaz yesterday on Tech Crunch.  While I do agree to a certain extent that embargoes are a silly system that just creates copies of news, I think Ms. Swisher does a good job of summing up the true motivations of the original article with:

And all of it is increasingly less important as the economy withers and a lot of the less sustainable start-ups fade away. There are big important stories happening in tech right now about major public companies, the state of innovation and the future of the industry, which require more serious journalism.

So I think we can all imagine a day very soon when the Web 2.0 echo chamber dissipates–as it inevitably did in Web 1.0–and no one goes nuts if Start-up X adds new embeddable widget, Start-up Y changes home page design or Start-up Z contemplates a new social networking site for dogs to gain a new revenue stream.