12
June
2006
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16:39 PM
America/Los_Angeles

Dinner with GigaOm - a transition


I had dinner with Om Malik tonight, Om has been a close friend and advisor in my blogospheric adventures and I'm glad to see that he is finally free of his former life at Business 2.0.


(Yes, Nick Douglas did get the scoop. Well done Nick, hey, come work with me, I can beat anything that skinflint Nick Denton pays you. Seriously, you've demonstrated a hunger for a scoop and that is key to this job. Call me 336 7547.)


Here, you can read Om's tearful farewell to the magazine (Business 2.O) that he continues to love and will continue to contribute a column. But, it is great that now he can unleash the GigaOm to its full potential.


As we talked tonight, I remarked that as media professionals we are in a truly unique point in the timesphere. At no other time in our lives will we be witness to such disruption in our media industry and such opportunities to carve out a media niche.


I sometimes tease my colleagues in the media that we will become the Venetian princes of the new age (I have the dotcom!). But they don't believe me yet and I might very well be a little ahead of myself :-)


Whether that is true or not, it doesn't matter because we are all at a major transition that will affect our society, our way of life for many years to come. Media is how our society thinks things through and that is changing dramatically...


In the meantime, Om says that he has some seed funding. He will invest that money in creating editorial media platforms. And I can't tell you about the rest, I'm on embargo :-)


Om is heading off to London for a week, finishing up a piece for Business 2.0, then he has book projects, GigaOm and ...


Here is Om's: It's Time to Transition


"I have written about start-ups for so long, and have always wanted to see if I had the chops to build something from scratch. With well wishes and support of my community, I hope I can."


Please read the rest here: