connecting*the*dots

Dave Winer (6/24/2000): …”My journalist-developer duality, which was uncomfortable for a few years now feels just right. If I can be a journalist, so can everyone else. The ability to share a point of view openly without help from a PR firm is the right and responsibility of every CEO, imho. The better your company does this, the more effective you will be.”…

Michael Miraflor: …”Here is the Economist article in which Mr. Rouzaud disses hip hop patronage. Stupid, stupid move. It reminds me of the Tommy Hilfiger rumor about him saying that his clothes weren’t meant for African-Americans. And we all know what happened- the Tommy trend died, FUBU was born and the seeds to the Marc Ecko and Sean John empires were sown. This time, its not a rumor, and the CEO of hip hop is leading the charge.”