By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher.com

Jason Dowdell at Marketing Shift posted a lovely appreciation of Tom and this site. Can't buy publicity like that, right?

"I began reading [SVW] a few weeks ago and kind of got hooked. Not sure how it happened but it's now a daily read, probably cause it's chocked full of good content and Tom's a former journalist."

The phrase "former journalist" is interesting; as if you can't do journalism online only on paper. Ah well, not to quibble.

Tom here: Jason, you are making me blush, thank you for your kind words.

(I had an excellent time last week when I ran into Jason at the launch of Become.com...which is a very interesting company, I'll tell you more about them v.soon.)

If we were in Pulp Fiction, I know what Mr Wolf would be saying ;-)

And yes, Richard is right, I'm not a former journalist. I'm a former journalist at the Financial Times. I'm doing more journalism now than ever before...this blogging stuff is a heck of a thing!