Warning -  this post gets a little zen

It took a great deal of courage for TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington to publish his Some Things Need To Change post chastising the digital rat race that he, in part, has helped to fuel. He concludes:

I’ve decided the right thing to do is take some time off and get a better perspective on what I’m spending my life doing. I’ll be taking most of February off from writing, and decide what the best future for me is while sitting on a beach somewhere far away from my iPhone and laptop.

I applaud Mike and others like him who are taking this moment to consider what their role can be in moving the planet and the global community forward and out of this global depression. It’s a new era of responsibility that begs the question of each of us - what am I really doing? (more…)

Today, MySpace did something different.

Something bold.

Something sexy.

And like the one hot girl at the tech party, nobody knew how to handle it

Today’s MySpace announcement was totally misunderstood and mishandled by the press coverage. It was too hot to handle. (more…)

The news that Fox Interactive Media (FIM) was decentralizing, (as scooped by techcrunch and covered elsewhere) and carving out its individual brands, most notably MySpace and IGN, into standalone silos should be welcomed by the technology, creative and business communities.

This is the first step in a maturing process for intrinsically rebellious MySpace, which despite the multiple doom-and-gloom rants about its eminent demise, remains an 800 lb gorilla in the web ecosphere and will continue to do so as long as it moves towards independence from its corporate parent.

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