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I was reading a post over at Steve Gillmor’s Gesture Lab today and I found myself making comparisons between the goings on on the Gillmor Gang and things I remember from primary school. Mike Arrington and Steve are constantly on the edge of leaving. People don’t turn up and don’t say why. Steve wonders at the significance of who didn’t turn up when and whether he will get an e-mail about it. Jason Calacanis is starting his own show and Steve wonders if it will be more popular than his, the insecurity is a mile wide. Hugh Mcleod gets banned for misbehaving.
When the gang do turn up they bicker and I for one don’t enjoy it when they do. I find it so much more listenable where they disagree in an amicable manner rather than acting like spoilt children. I don’t want them to agree, I just want a more pleasant listening experience. I don’t enjoy conflict in my life, however necessary it is, and I don’t want to listen to other’s conflict when I’m trying to be entertained and informed. Don’t get me wrong, the content, when it happens, is top rate and often really funny. I just wish they all would stop acting like little kids sometimes and more like the brilliant insightful creative visionary adults that they show themselves to be in between.

Well the blog is finally back. Sorry that it took so long. Somehow my Wordpress database was corrupted and I had to restore from backups. The last post was on September 29 but it appears that the 1st of October backup didn’t run so I opted to go back to a September 12 restore just to make sure everything was running OK. I have the text of the posts from the last half of September so I will progressively restore those posts over the next few days as I get time.

Thanks again for your patience and I hope to be blogging more often now the site is back up.