Way to go David. Well deserved.

David P. Reed wins WTN Communications Technology Award!

Congratulations , David!



Reed won in fast company. Two of the other nominees were Carver Mead and Niklas Zennstrom. Zennstrom's most recently founded company, Skype , won the Corporate CommTech Award, and deservedly so. Both Reed and Skype have irrevocably changed the field of communications technology.



I've been an advisor to WTN since before it was launched. Thanks to the persistence and dogged determination of WTN Founder Jim Clark, it is turning into something real; witness the recently announced expansion of the X-Prize, now known as the WTN X-Prize.



The four WTN Summits so far have been among the best meetings it has been my pleasure to participate in. At the most recent WTN meeting last week, the conversation I was in with George Gilder, David Reed, Steve Jurvetson, Kelly Larabee (Skype's U.S. agent) and a handful of other articulate practitioners of communications was worth the trip all by itself.

- isen [isen.blog]

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A great quote and a pointer to factcheck.org

Just the Facts. "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts." This quote from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan... [Dispatches from the New World of Work]

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Another great post from Evelyn at Crossroads with a recommendation for another book that looks worth reading, Overachievement by John Eliot. I've got a copy on order based on her recommendation.

The Last Taboo. [Michael Dell at eighteen] decided not to divulge that dream to anyone "because they probably would have thought I was crazy. But, to me, the opportunity was clear." - Overachievement, by John Eliot That dream was to be number one... [Crossroads Dispatches]

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Funny. I thought they were glitches in the feed as well. I certainly ignore them in general. To the extent they do intrude on my consciousness they annoy me. I'm inclined to Dave's observation that the feed is an ad for the site. Don't clutter it with noise.

Here's what the new ads in the Engadget feed look like in my aggregator. At first I barely noticed them, then they looked like big glitches, but now that I see them in every post and I am starting to think about unsubbing. That says a lot, because it's become one of my favorite feeds. I honestly don't see why they need ads in their feed, because the feed itself is an ad for Engadget. Every time I read an item there's a (let's say) three percent chance I'll link to it and deliver several hundred readers. There's got to be a better way to pay for the feed. [Scripting News]

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