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Getting Naked in Silicon Valley — At about 1 a.m. this morning I was sitting on Michael Arrington's couch talking with the few people who were left over. Topic of conversation: "is this a bubble?" — Yes. Next question. — What kind of bubble is it? — Not an economic one.
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Carded — One indication that Bubble 2.0 is getting out of hand: I was walking down the dark Atherton street to Michael Arrington's house for the latest TechCrunch meetup/party, and a guy approached me from across the street. Before I could tell who it was — practically before I could see him, actually — he said, "Rafe Needleman!

PhotoBlog: Naked Convo Party at TechCrunch House — Went to the techcrunch party for Naked Convos book launch. — Atherton is very dark at night. — Met up with Alexa from Omidyar, she had questions about business blogging, so I bought her a book. — Saw James from feedster, he introduced me to some of his colleagues.

Techcrunch5 - Morning Time in the Valley — While on the west coast for a number of meetings and projects, I was invited to the Techcrunch5 party celebrating Shel and Robert's book launch as well as testing the limits of Michael Arington's neighbors. I wasn't aware you could pack 500 people in a house with only two bathrooms, cool.

Naked Conversations Interview/Launch Party — Holy Techcrush, were there some folks at Mike Arrington's house last night. Great launch party for *the* book on business blogging, Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel. I did a podcast interview with them this morning (which I'll detail more later).

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Attention Thieves — I've developed a new spray that detects bulls**t. I can't talk too much about the technology until the product launch, but I will demonstrate its usefullness by spraying it on this post by Sam Ruby: — Note that there's nothing left to see.
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Here we go again — "Syndication politics are every bit as twisted as any soap opera you'll see on daytime television. Only without the sex. And with a bunch of bearded fat guys in place of the pretty models. " ( Dave Walker) — As a bearded, person of size, who is involved with RSS, I guess I have a right to chime in here.
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PlayStation 3 costs $800, sez Merrill Lynch mob — If there are some people out there rightnow who are in the know when it comes to what the hell is going on — we mean really going on — with Sony,it's those investment firms. But even barring their research analysts getting all kinds …
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The Click That Broke a Government's Grip — BEIJING — The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.

How to Suck Up to a Blogger — Blogging has flipped traditional PR on its head. It used to be that ink begat buzz. Life was simple then: you sucked up to the Wall Street Journal, one of its reporters wrote about your product, and the buzz began. … Nowadays buzz begets ink.

BlogBurst Can Save Big (print) Media — Pluck demo'd a new product called BlogBurst at our party last night. The service is live but Pluck has not pushed it out for publicity yet. — BlogBurst is a service that takes topical content from pre-approved blogs and provides it to publishers (online newspapers, etc.) for republication.

FM Blog Ad Network — I subscribe to more blogs than I should, but one I read with relative frequency is Fred Wilson's - A VC, Musings of a VC in NYC. I am not alone as he has more than 30,000 such people - an incredible number in the fragmented world of blogs.

A Interview with 180Solutions' CEO — What follows below is some of the material that ultimately got cut from my magazine piece on botnets and spyware for space considerations. Here's what I wrote about my visit to 180solutions and subsequent interviews with several company executives:

Time to blow up blogs — Blogs have already become prisoners of their format. Time to light some dynamite. — The problem isn't the tools, it's the templates. Blogging tools are merely content management systems without the million-dollar consultants and bills; that's …

A Blog Without Comments is Still a Blog — Russell Beattie recently removed comments from his blog. Some bloggers (here, here, here, here, here, here and here) think removing comments is not a good idea. Darren Rowse at ProBlogger also has an interesting post about blogs and comments.

hell is chrome — "When the devil came / He was not red / He was chrome, and he said / Come with me / You must go / So I went / Where everything was clean / So precise and towering. I was welcomed / With open arms / I received so much help in every way / I felt no fear / I felt no fear." (Wilco)