Raymond Nasr, ex-googler and Eric's right hand man, is the Churchill Club's new president. Raymond mentioned that his Aunt Edna reads Silicon Valley Watcher and she is 81.

About a week ago, Raymond told me that my scoop on his leaving Google, caused him all kinds of embarrasment and he had to explain to his mother,and his work colleagues; how did I get that so right, he asked?

What can I say? I can't reveal the secrets of journalism--they can only be acquired through many years of struggle and search for the truth--but I can say that I'm delighted Silicon Valley Watcher has the reach to reach Raymond's dear mom and aunt(!)

I also realised that I, and my colleagues within the rapidly deconstructing news media community, all provide a very valuable content contribution to the internet, and to many fine internet companies such as Google. Let's see a machine create that kind of content. Those pages and pages of harvested links that the Googlebot collects and publishes--eventually have to point to something original, otherwise they are pointless.

Up next at 9.09am--Churchill Club 20th anniversary event:.Thank you Tony Perkins and the Forbes guy

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