Do what you do best, and link to the rest

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can't use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?

I'd love if Google ran my cable or phone company. Instead of making their businesses out of telling us what we can't do, GT&T would recognize the benefit of helping us do what we want to do: use the internet more and create more of our own stuff. Google might even figure out how to make connectivity ad-supported and free. Sadly, though, I think Google knows what it is and won't expand into other industries, even if it would be good at running a cable or energy or phone company.

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.