Dear Readers, the comments section of this blog is temporarily out of service . In the meantime, I'm manually posting some of the comments that readers have sent. Please feel free to do the same. Tom @ SiliconValleyWatcher.com, (omitting spaces) will reach me. Thank you. Comments might be edited for length and interest ;-)

[I met Wade recently, we were both on a panel at a The News Market event for Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Wayne was responding to this recent post.]

Tom, nice post. I enjoyed being on the panel with you. You're absolutely right that a "forced" blog is painful to read. One way organizations can avoid this is to give trusted writers the freedom to blog about whatever they want, whenever they want, without a lot of over-the-shoulder monitoring. At Technology Review, I've had the good fortune, under editor in chief Jason Pontin, of being able to blog as inspiration strikes. In fact I have two work blogs -- one on the TR site(http://wade.trblogs.com), and a "satellite" blog off the site that relates specifically to my August cover story about social computing (http://www.continuousblog.net). I try to emphasize quality over quantity, adding a substantive post perhaps once a week on each blog.

Thanks for your comment Wade. I agree with your point about emphasizing quality over quantity. There is way too much quantity in the world! Less quantity is a good thing.

It's a wonderful paradox, that in the online world where there is tons of space—brevity is encouraged by the medium. Yet in the print world, where there is limited space, journalists are often asked to stretch stories to beyond their useful value just to fill the space between ads.

A disgruntled reader comments on the acquisition of OutCast Communications by Next Fifteen, name withheld...

Many people have been talking about how small the deal was and what bad judgement that Caryn and Margit used in the deal.
OutCast is notorious for hiring senior level management, who walk out after several months when learning that the two women can't relinquish control of any piece of their business. There is a growing number of old disgruntled workers from OutCast who would like to see the company go down.

Lynne Jolitz writes:

Hi Tom,

Posting the following regarding your bandwidth issues and rackspace:

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/06/running_out_of.php



"This is why you negotiate with a managed service provider for overage bandwidth. A good ISP should be calling you about your burst, not you calling them after you've been knocked offline as punishment for the sin of being successful.



I wrote about this in one of my essays on datacenter management and monitoring, but alas, I've been told that no one needs to know this stuff anymore, because everything works perfectly, right? :-)"

Lynne, you make a good point. We do tend to take a lot of the infrastructure stuff for granted these days, which I think is a testament to how bullet-proof the infrastructure services tend to be--mostly :-)

I don't mind being my own admin for a while, I like the work, it's just that I have trouble finding the time to do that and all the other things that I need to do. Writing is a top priority for me, and I will stay away from my inbox until I get some posts done, because that is often a two to three hour process wading through the emails.