Fred Wilson! Wow. The first person to leave a comment on this humble blog (and very possibly the last) is a guy I really respect, Fred Wilson. I appreciate that he's a VC, the consumate capitalist, and yet he's not afraid to talk politics now and then. Of course I say that because I tend to agree with him.
He also spent part of his childhood on West Point, a place for which I have an affinity considering that when I covered the post for the local daily it was the only time on the job that I didn't want to bang my head against the wall from boredom.
Anyway, his firm, Union Square Ventures, walks the Web 2.0 walk, turning the firm's site into a blog and investing in cool companies (they backed del.icio.us and recently invested in Feedburner), and Fred uses his popular blog as a lab for all forms of social media (podcasts, Flickr, del.icio.us bookmarks, etc.). Plus, he's got good taste in music.
So it's kind of unfortunate that his historic comment was in response to the one post where I was a bit critical of him. He was kind of enough to concede that his comment was over the top (we all indulge in hyperbole now and then), but that he really hates spammers. So do I, by the way. A lot.
Anyway, after a few months of this, I was wondering if anyone would read this let alone bother to comment. It was and still is getting to the point where I may have to follow in Dave Winer's path and shut this baby down: "My work here is
I got excited a few months ago when I got shout outs from both Tara Hunt and Doc Searls. Alas, no traffic spike or invitation to join the A-list followed.
Speaking of which, I should mention that I've commented on and linked to plenty of other blogs and it's ONLY the A-LIST FOLKS who've RESPONDED. So let's tone down the snark. That gave me some all the proof I needed as to why these folks are read as much as they are.
Anyway, thanks Fred.
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