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Thousands enjoy Easter in capital

Thousands enjoy Easter in capital 03/27/2005 05:21 AM
More than 30,000 people are expected to attend the second day of the Easter Festival in Edinburgh.

Vaughan takes over Capital show

Vaughan takes over Capital show 04/19/2004 04:13 AM
Former Big Breakfast presenter Johnny Vaughan has taken over Capital FM's breakfast show

Tens of Thousands March in N.Y. to Show
Opposition to Bush

Tens of Thousands March in N.Y. to Show
Opposition to Bush 08/29/2004 12:41 PM
Tens of thousands of people marched by the site of this week's Republican National Convention, which starts on Monday.

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement 06/22/2005 03:00 AM
The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a non-profit think tank, educator and professional association, and Human Capital, a leading talent management magazine, announced today an agreement to bring HCI's game-changing research and information to readers of Human Capital. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]

“Show Me The Business!” Live Internet
Talk Radio Show Moves to the
VoiceAmerica™ Channel

“Show Me The Business!” Live Internet
Talk Radio Show Moves to the
VoiceAmerica™ Channel 03/22/2005 03:16 PM
Founder of Westcoast Business Review host Amy Campbell re-launches “Show Me The Business!” on Tuesday, March 22, 2005. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Limelight Networks and The Chris Pirillo
Show Team to Deliver Live Webcasts at
International Consumer Electronics Show

Limelight Networks and The Chris Pirillo
Show Team to Deliver Live Webcasts at
International Consumer Electronics Show 01/07/2005 04:14 AM
“The Chris Pirillo Show” to Debut Live via Leading Digital Delivery Network [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]

Pistons Show Fangs; Lakers Show Age

Pistons Show Fangs; Lakers Show Age 06/14/2004 02:20 AM
Detroit won, 88-80, and Los Angeles faces a deficit that no team in N.B.A. finals history has overcome.

Venture capital up

Venture capital up 12/30/2004 06:51 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 10:58AM GMT

Capital punishment was never so much
fun!

Capital punishment was never so much
fun! 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates are very pleased to announce the release of a new Macintosh word game called Hangman Pro.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

Capital for Mac development

Capital for Mac development 11/14/2003 11:59 PM
A few days ago I said that there is no capital for Mac development, that if you want to be a Mac developer you have to fund the effort yourself.

Then on Thursday Robb Beal linked to a press release about You Software. You Software is founded by Craig Barnes, who also founded Extensis and Now Software.

You Software, according to the press release, “has secured a first round of financing from SmartForest Ventures of Portland, Oregon.”

More: “‘Our investment in You Software reflects our excitement about Craig and his team coming back to the Macintosh market,’ said Debi Coleman, SmartForest Ventures Partner and former CIO, CFO, and VP, Worldwide Operations for Apple Computer.”

Okay—so here’s a counter-example, here’s a Mac developer with funding.

This is a sign of growing health, I think. Health in the Mac market and general economic health. (“Growing” health, yes, but neither are really healthy, yet.)

However, my advice to any developer who wants to do Mac software is to act as if you’ve never heard this. My advice is to plan to build a business the old-fashioned way, by creating something of value that people like and will buy. Being an honest, small, independent developer is tons of fun; chasing after capital is tons of pain. (And when you’re chasing you’re not working on your software.)

P.S. Since writing my advice to Mac developers the other day, I was pointed several times to Rogue Amoeba’s Good Ideas. Good stuff, worth reading.

In capital letters...

In capital letters... 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Ok, I've decided to switch to using proper caps again. Got tired of all lower case. Hope you don't mind....

Venture Capital 101

Venture Capital 101 01/06/2005 06:55 AM

In all the speculation about the deal I haven't seen what surely is the motivator. Six Apart plans to go public. The market will value SA based on it's ability to generate profits, and it will likely do so in proportion to the number of users, the theory being that they can sell things to the users, so the more users, the more they can sell. They might value each user at $100. Anyway, the more users the more value. LJ has a lot of users. So the founders of LJ get SA stock, and the shareholders in SA get more users, and value of the combined companies goes up and the day of the IPO gets closer.

Capital Games

Capital Games 12/16/2003 04:05 PM
had something interesting .. does not justify the war .. Link to Opinion .. SADDAM GONE .. David Corn

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Visiting the old capital

Visiting the old capital 06/17/2005 05:09 PM
Ever since I blogged about the anti-Japanese protests in China, I have been having a dialog with a number of people about Japanese history. One of my Chinese friends recommended "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" (Herbert P. Bix) for a more objective and critical view of the Emperor's role in the War. I am reading the book now. I believe this book does a great job of uncovering a fairly systematic coverup by the US occupation and the Japanese media of the role of the Emperor in World War II. However, I do think that Bix tends to makes some conclusions based on the facts he uncovers that I would not necessarily agree with. It is, in any case, a very good book for anyone interested in Japan to read.

With this fresh in my mind, I visited Kyoto, my home town, and was amazed at just how much Japanese tradition is organized around the Emperor. The Emperor went though various levels of influence in the governing of the nation, but has remained in place for 125 generations. Regardless of his level of influence, the Emperor has been the center of most of Japanese culture. Kyoto, for instance, is divided into the "Right Kyoto" and the "Left Kyoto". This has nothing to do with East or West, but is the right or left side of the city when viewed from the Emperor. The bullet train "climbs" from Kyoto to Tokyo (the new capital) toward the Emperor and any road that points away from the Emperor is pointed "down". All kinds of symbols and names allow you to understand exactly what each Temple's relationship to the royal family is. Maybe it was just our guide, or maybe it was that I was sensitized, but I think he talked about the Emperor in almost every explanation he made.

I question whether we should still have an Emperor in Japan and I believe that the facts about the Emperor's involvement in the war should be more publicly known. However, I wonder how the cultural foundation of Japan will change if the Emperor and the royal family were removed.

I　have Flickr'ed the trip.

UPDATE: Movie of geisha dance uploaded to archive.org and part 2. (And an older one from a previous trip...)

UPDATE: Rela ted Article - Sanji-Chion-Ji

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Is Venture Capital Over?

Is Venture Capital Over? 04/14/2005 04:52 AM
A well known venture capitalist is apparently claiming that the age of the VC is over, and is getting out of the business. The specifics of his claim are that VCs won't be able to earn the same sorts of returns they did in the 90s, which he chalks up to "systemic change." If anything, it sounds like he's channeling Nicho las Carr, who believes the tech industry is becoming commoditized and boring (misunderstanding that things first get interesting when stuff gets commoditized). Of course, the silly thing is that he seems to be comparing today's VC returns to what you could get in the 90s. He claims that "the eye-popping returns that make venture capital famous are history." Of course, the easy response to that is that perhaps most of the "eye-popping returns" were the aberration in the first place, built on the bubble of hype-cycles past. That means there's still plenty of opportunity in real innovation -- and even without that, you can bet that there will be more hype cycles and bubbles. History< /a> practically guarantees it. While bubbles aren't good for everyone, good VCs generally are able to make out quite well (since they bail out early enough) -- and we've already explained why bubbl es eventually are good for most people. While it's bad for those who get sucked up in the hype, it does accelerate innovation by allowing a lot of companies to quickly test (and discard!) many different ideas.

Venture capital goes up

Venture capital goes up 12/30/2004 12:21 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 3:34AM GMT

Capital Irrelevance

Capital Irrelevance 03/14/2005 06:10 PM
Internet Capital Group continues to issue press releases, despite never being profitable.

That's "Vacation" with a Capital "V"

That's "Vacation" with a Capital "V" 04/09/2004 04:13 PM

So, my site is on the new LISHost server, just in time to sit idle for a while. I'm heading off to a much anticipated vacation, sans laptop, so things will be even quieter around here than they have been lately (at least until the 19th, maybe later). Please also note that I won't be reading any news during that time, and I'm already so far behind in my email it's no longer a joke, so responses will be delayed even longer than usual. Sorry, but it's vacation, don't you know.

One last pointer that I've been quite remiss in posting until now. Library Journal's 2004 Movers & Shakers list is out, and I'm beyond pleased to see Steven M. Cohen and Lori Bell on it! Congratulations to both of them, as well as to all of the folks included on this year's list! I'm looking forward to reading through all of the write-ups and learning lots of great new things!

Marathon's capital day

Marathon's capital day 04/18/2004 01:46 AM
London is all set for another memorable marathon on Sunday.

Around the Capital of Magic with the
Bikemob

Around the Capital of Magic with the
Bikemob 08/28/2004 11:59 PM
I had a truly exhilarating experience last night. The beautiful Juliette Powell and I biked over to Union Square and connected up with roughly 5000 bicyclists for tour of the city. In a sense, it was no more organized than a BarlowFrenzy. No one was in charge. There were no speeches. We we independent operators, each of us asserting his belief that the streets belong to us as well. All we had was a place and time to begin. In this, the ride was simply something that Critical Mass has been fomenting for the last 12 years. On the last Friday of every month, bicyclists in over 300 cities world-wide pack up and roam the streets together. Generally, these gatherings are fairly small and have no larger political implications than the assertion of bike rights. Last night was different. For one thing, 5000 bicycles is a lot of bicycles. More, in fact, than it sounds. Moreover, the relationship between this particular Critical Mass ride and the RNC was on everybody's mind. Since a measure of civil disobedience was involved, it was an excellent opportunity to assay the current state of constabulary edginess. I'm pleased to report that everybody behaved gracefully and with restraint. While we did routinely run red lights - YOU try to get 5000 bicycles to stop suddenly - the police were chill and even, it seemed, mildly supportive. Observers on the sidewalks cheered and clapped as we rode past, though there was the very occasional taunt. (My favorite cultural assertion was the guy who yelled at us, "Get a car, you fukkin' tree-huggin' fucks.") The bikers yelled, whooped, and whistled a lot. One guy even had a kind of drum kit on his handlebars that he whacked away on throughout the ride. Occasionally we broke into various chants, most commonly a refrain where some folks would shout, "Bush Sucks," and the larger mass would reply, "FUCK BUSH!" Not terribly intelligent, I admit, but shouted with apparent heartfelt conviction. I couldn't get the grin off my face, and neither, it seemed, could anyone else, biker or spectator. There appeared to be no planned route. We turned an arbitrary new direction whenever we encountered resistance, giving the route a very fractal quality. We ended up riding south to Houston, up 6th to 30th or so, over to Madison and north, across to Broadway on some street in the 50's, and back down Broadway through Times Square, down 7th past Madison Square Garden and then over to the East Village. Finally, after about two hours, the police decided that it was time to put a stop to it, which they did with efficiency and dispassion. Mobilizing suddenly and in force around St. Mark's Place, they created a box canyon of blue, let it fill with about 250 bicyclists and then methodically, if arbitrarily, arrested them all and hauled them off. They were doing their jobs just as, in a sense, we we were doing ours. When one engages in civil disobedience, arrest is a natural consequence that he should expect. I'm just glad they didn't trap me in their noose. And, even if they had, it would have been worth the moment when we cascaded down the long slope of Broadway into the incandescent canyon of Times Square. We felt like an irresistible river of anarchic order. The air was cool and perfect. For a moment, all things seemed possible. It occurred to me that a Bike to The Polls movement would be a useful thing to start......

From the capital of an oil-rich
nation...

From the capital of an oil-rich
nation... 01/07/2004 04:23 PM

This item comes to you from an Internet cafe in the capital of a country that is

• oil-rich
• still smarting from the pain of a U.S. invasion
• throughout its history has seldom enjoyed a government elected by the people
• lacking in basic physical security, except in a handful of areas patrolled by guys wearing body armor and toting machine guns
• not somewhere you can turn on the kitchen faucet and expect drinkable water to come out

Does this sound like a crisis?  Actually it is normal everyday life in Mexico City and somehow nobody seems to mind.

Advice for those seeking capital

Advice for those seeking capital 04/14/2005 10:24 PM

Vent ureBlog: it is best not to clip your fingernails while pitching your company

I knew there was a reason I subscribed to VentureBlog.

Working Capital Management

Working Capital Management 01/08/2004 07:55 PM
marcus evans Jan 8 2004 1:38PM ET

Baseball Capital (washingtonpost.com)

Baseball Capital (washingtonpost.com) 04/15/2005 09:50 AM
washingtonpost.com - Thirty-four long years of waiting for baseball in Washington ended last night at twilight, when nine young men in white Nationals uniforms jogged from the home team's dugout to the field at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium and took their gloves from nine much older men from a bygone era.

Intel Capital for Startups

Intel Capital for Startups 01/24/2004 12:39 PM
MSNBC Jan 24 2004 4:05PM GMT

Venture Capital, ``Rightsized``

Venture Capital, ``Rightsized`` 06/14/2004 05:13 AM
The old guard of venture capital is changing. The reason? Older partners downshifting as new money starts to flow in.

Intel Capital Invests in E Ink

Intel Capital Invests in E Ink 03/24/2005 10:51 PM
Intel Capital invested an undisclosed sum in digital paper display maker E Ink this week.

Realtors win capital case vs. Web man

Realtors win capital case vs. Web man 04/18/2004 08:19 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 18 2004 12:09PM GMT

Entrepreneurs Who Don't Want Venture
Capital

Entrepreneurs Who Don't Want Venture
Capital 12/08/2003 04:41 AM
It seems like every few months a story just like this one show up somewhere about entrepreneurs (usually ones who have gone through the process before) are starting new companies without venture capital. The reporter (like in most of these articles) tries to make it out like this is a big conflict between those who "know better" and the venture capitalists. The truth seems quite different - and the story isn't supported by any of the actual quotes. Certainly there are entrepreneurs who get screwed by VCs, and there are many who go into the process the first time without realizing what they're giving up when they accept VC cash. However, the truth is that many businesses (and certain entrepreneurs) aren't right for VC money. Understanding what VCs are looking for, and what the process is like is important for anyone raising money. Then the entrepreneur can make the right decision about the best way to move forward. Sometimes that's with VC cash and sometimes it isn't. Everyone quoted in the article seems to understand that, but that's not as interesting a story for the paper. What would be better is if the press stopped making the implicit assumption that to do a startup you need to raise venture money - and that the companies that raise more money are the automatic powerhouses.

Venture Capital Blogs

Venture Capital Blogs 09/22/2004 10:23 PM
The Mercury News has a roundup of our neighborly VC bloggers. You really have to hand it to them for making a private equity a little more, well, public. Sometimes a cheat sheet is better than a term sheet,...

Creative Capital Conference

Creative Capital Conference 03/19/2005 03:18 AM

I'm now at the Creative Capital Conference. Free WiFi. Yay! The DNS from the DHCP didn't work though so you have to find one and enter it directly... anyway.

It looks like a very interesting conference. Some of my favorite speakers are here including Charles Leadbeater and Pekka Himanen (who I was just with in Madrid). The other speakers sound interesting too and I look forward to their presentations. I will be giving a keynote on the 18th at 11:00, doing at Q&A at 11:30 and will be on the "Publicly Financed Content" panel at 13:00.

Today, the 17th, there will an all-afternoon gathering of Creative Commons projects from across Europe. This is the first time they've assembled in one meeting and I look forwarded to hearing about all of the projects.

The mayor of Amsterdam is speaking now kicking off the talk with a quote from Richard Florida talking about how businesses seek out creative people, but people seek out cities with other creative people. He is talking about the creative capital of cities.

I've been using Richard Florida's "Creative Class" to identify the new class of people who are anti-establishment, proactive, creative, connected... you know... us. Francesco Cara and Jyri Engeström turned me on to Richard Florida's work. (Everyone else in the world appears to already have known about him once I started to get excited.) I just read Karrie Jacobs's criticism of Richard Florida and his Creative Class quoting a discussion with John Thackara, the organizer of Doors of Perception, the conference I will be speaking at next. (via Gen Kanai) It's an interesting criticism and it argues that "In other words, Florida has taken something qualitative and turned it into something quantitative." I agree with some of the points, but I think that there is a class of people who seem to have more similarities across countries than other people in the region. If you look at the proliferation of things like social networking software and blogs in countries like Brazil and Iran, I think that broadband users in these countries have more similarities to the creative class in other countries than to their parents. I think that from a social software and remix culture perspective, this is very interesting.

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Egg attracts interest from Capital One

Egg attracts interest from Capital One 06/28/2004 03:39 AM
E-bank sale drags on

The Seven Capital Sins - Revised!

The Seven Capital Sins - Revised! 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Hey, It's Not Enough We Die Of Obesity without having to go to Hell too? Some enlightened Frenchmen are bending the Pope's ear, trying to spring Gluttony from the Deadly Sins blacklist. Well, even clever old Thomas Aquinas did his damnedest to narrow the seven buggers down. So: which sins would you excuse today's poor sufferers from and which ones would you insist on keeping, if any? [Something tells me MetaFilter is ideally suited to put in a good word for Sloth . I wonder why? Speaking of which, NYT reg. is required but you can read about it here instead. Via Arts and Letters Daily.]

Arguments against Capital Punishment

Arguments against Capital Punishment 07/19/2004 01:08 PM
While reading the news recently, I have found two things that depress me more than any others. They make me doubt my faith in human nature. They are (1) the crimes people commit; and (2) the desire for vengeance of the victims. That (2) depresses me as much as (1) has led to several heated arguments with friends and family. Therefore I should like to set down the major reasons why I believe capital punishment to be a fundamentally Bad Idea. There are the usual arguments. "Capital punishment is the mark of barbarism", "Deterrence doesn't work", "We routinely convict innocent people", etcetera. These are all valid. They are not the arguments that affect me the most. I prefer the (not-so-simple) calculus of the general good. In other words, can we arrive at a punishment that is constructive for the society that administers it, instead of arbitrarily causing more harm? In light of this, I propose the following arguments: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right Vengeance Is Not Restitution The Paradox of 'Restitution'

Allied Capital Punishment

Allied Capital Punishment 06/24/2004 04:28 PM
After years of short-seller quailing, the SEC finally takes an interest in Allied Capital

Where Venture Capital Dollars Are Going

Where Venture Capital Dollars Are Going 04/20/2004 09:54 AM
Fortune Apr 20 2004 2:17PM GMT

Kerry a Fan of Venture Capital

Kerry a Fan of Venture Capital 05/26/2004 06:11 AM
Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress and wife of John Kerry, has much of her wealth locked up in bonds and blue-chip stocks. But the couple's campaign financial filing also shows a keen interest in the risky world of tech venture capital investing. By Joanna Glasner.

Two BBC men shot in Saudi capital

Two BBC men shot in Saudi capital 06/06/2004 05:43 PM
A BBC cameraman is killed and a BBC reporter is injured in an attack by gunmen near Riyadh.

Mac-friendly Venture Capital?

Mac-friendly Venture Capital? 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

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