TechCrunch & DailyKos: an accidental 2-fer
August 1st, 2007I’m driving across the Bay Bridge at about 10:30pm when I get a text from my buddy Greg. “dude you are on techcrunch!”. Funny, I’m thinking, my startup hasn’t released our alpha/beta/whatever-we’ll-call-it. What’s up?
I get home, pull up the Crunch, and apparently Scott Beale took this photo which aroused some interest. In fact, someone put an ad on craigslist looknig for the “cute”, “tall blonde guy” in the pic.
So here’s the screenshot from TechCrunch, and I’ve added a little callout:
It’s good to know that love, or lust, or whatever, can blossom at a tech networking event. In other news, a diary of mine made it to the front-page of Kos thanks to the fantastic Rescue Rangers’ diary rescue. It was a PowerPoint expose of Gonzales’ Senate testimony. I think I’ll do more of those. It was fun to apply some bullet-point basics to political analysis, which as my diary points out, is what the DC stenography press corps needs these days, since they so often lack a clear grasp of basic facts.
Anyway, it is always amazing how gratifying it is to receive online kudos.
The power of community is incredible. Just as nice was receiving a phone call from my friend Molly this morning. “Hey, I was on DailyKos and saw your diary on the front-page. So funny that you laid that out in PowerPoint!”. Which makes me think: two totally unrelated appearances on totally unrelated blogs leads to two messages from unrelated friends.
Who needs tall and blonde when I have friends lookin’ out for me online?