Free Big Switches

Thanks for the offer. There are already over 100 comments on Arrington's post (including mine) all begging and leaping at a chance for the book. Then I come over here and... poof!... no comments at all?

Odd. I read the articles Arrington mentioned as disagreeable and except for the joke about Google and ice cream, I thought your articles were incredibly interesting and dead-on. In fact, I'm getting to go pour through the comments a bit to see why Michael didn't like them. He's usually pretty reasonable about why he doesn't like something so I'm hoping there's a comment there somewhere.

So, even if I don't win the autographed book, at the least I've found a new blogger to read and someone that, so far, seems to have some real insight on things. I loved that analogy about the ships of Big Media pulling into Blogosphere Harbor with trunks of gold. How true!

Microsoft circa 1990 - IT is bad; they are preventing you from using computers the way you want. They are dinosaurs charging you too much. Join the desktop revolution and free yourselves from the shackles of the IT fascists.

Microsoft today - you need to invest in your IT infrastructure. Don't use that "risky" low cost software. Stay in the safety of the herd. Pay us to protect you from that open source chaos out there.

Wow; what a cultural migration in less 20 years.

Can I get a signed copy? I say nice things about you're blogs sometimes.

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"The Web Darwinism " that Mochio Umeda wrote wouldl have fascinated a lot of people in Japan when introducing "Google", the Search-engine.
But time has changed. When so far called "Google", there would be a center of our concerns with "search engine", "media", and "the stock price".
However, the competitiveness and differeciations would be in the system. The system that Google is putting an emphasis is "Cloud Computing". In other words "Big Switch", that make the super-huge clusterd machine of the supercomputer. I am interested in it, and hope to have chances to translate to in Japanese.

Michael who?

Anyhow, I'm holding out for the Rough Type t-shirt.

Oh, Michael "the madam of the great Web 2.0 brothel TechCrunch" Arrington. In that light, his endorsement of your book makes a pretty good prank. You've been p0wned, my friend!

Forget it, Jake. It's the blogosphere.

thanks

Forget it, Jake. It's the blogosphere.

Whoa. And you are its master -- I salute you. No wonder Mike is sucking up to you (just kidding, Mike!) I bet you outclass FSJ.

Anyhow, this kind of divisive talk is inappropriate for the season. Rock on.

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