Here’s a sampling of random quotes and comments I picked up during the the Media Center’s Emerging Technology, Business and Policy for Senior Executives conference in Palo Alto this week.
“They want to take your classified business.”
— Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson, on comments made by a Yahoo! executive while Anderson was having dinner with him the previous night. Anderson suggested the wine might have loosened that Yahoo! exec’s lips. In vino veritas?
“We’re all using open source. Cost infrastructure is going to be based on that. If yours isn’t, it better be.”
— Scott Rafer, CEO Feedster
“He just doesn’t get the blogosphere.”
— Overheard snarkiness from one of the Blogospherians … It must be excruciating to be so much hipper, so much more in the know than the rest of Wal-Merica
“I move to another hot topic.
— Muniwirless.com’s Esme de Guzman Vos, commenting on what she’ll do when she gets bored tracking municipal wireless and broadband issues.
“11 guys and less than a million bucks.”
— Feedster’s Scott Rafer, describing his organization
“I’m feeling really good this morning because I’ve been drinking Dan Gillmor’s Kool-Aid.
— Ron Williams, president and CEO of Dragonfly Media
“I can’t think of any (examples of conservative grassroots successes) offhand, but I can’t say I’ve studied it that much.”
— Brad deGraf, founder of Media Venture Collective
Large scale corporate media are “the Wal-Mart of our media landscape.”
— Brad deGraf, founder of Media Venture Collective
“(Google Chief Executive Eric) Schmidt is a fan of a concept, popularized in a Wired magazine article last year, called the ‘long tail,’ which says that a large number of products with low sales volume can collectively make up a sizable market. For Google, the long tail includes the tens of thousands of businesses not being served by conventional means of advertising. Schmidt believes Google has an opportunity to appeal to those businesses by offering them the ability to create highly targeted ad campaigns.”
— San Jose Mercury News coverage of the 2/9 Google analyst meeting
“You can compete with free. Convenience is worth paying for.”
— Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired magazine
Now sing with me y’all,
one world, one world (we only got)
one world, one world (that’s all we got)
one world, one world
and something’s wrong with it (yeah)
something’s wrong with it (yeah)
something’s wrong with the w-w-world
We only got (one world, one world)
That’s all we got (one world, one world)
— Black Eyed Peas, “Where is the Love?” (extended version)