Bruce Lerner

Today's News Gang Live returned to the reason for lack of track. As often ensues, circular reasoning abounded. Initially the difficulty and sequential failures by all of the main players to ramp-up realtime track was thrown out for discussion - the technology card. Then the lack of a monetization model for track was blamed. The idea for 'charging' for track was suggested and shot down because micro-payments don't work. The current model of living off venture funding was proposed as 'better' than charging for the service.

Today's NGL closed abruptly during a discussion on the relative value of Twitter vs. other enterprise applications as a rebuttal to the statement that Twitter is the "most important enterprise application of our time".

Update: I went back and listened to Steve's 30 second comment @15:05. Its interesting how a couple of sentences can attach themselves to your conciousness and how they can be misrepresented in one's memory.

Today's NewsGang (at least the 2nd half) discussed controls (programatic, regulatory, awareness) to maintain personal information.
My interpretation of the discussion topic is that either:

3/11 NewsGang Notes (here's the show)

In discussions on a recent NewsGang podcast, I held out that the Clinton campaign was not playing as 'negative' as some of the other NewsGanglings were proposing and that the appropriate Obama response is "strength through statesmanship".

The following are some observations of the technology thread in the 2/26 episode. The discussion is one that I broached a few calls ago that didn't grow legs but came back with greater focus and a more eloquent opponent to Steve's argument.

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