If you want to make a permanent name for yourself, in other words, this is the place to do it. And now is the time. Look at how the crew of Star Trek is still making a living from that fantasy, 40 years on.

I remain convinced that at the heart of the next governing thesis will be the Internet ideals of transparency, openness, connectivity and consensus. Seeing that last in action should give us all hope for the future.

No one has the power to destroy American except Americans. Because we are enslaved to the example of Chamberlain at Munich we are doing a very fine job of that.

All these states are now dominated, politically, by their exurbs -- far-off suburbs where rich whites can move into exclusive, often gated communities, and control most of the state's capital from afar. It's a hopelessly corrupt, almost plantation-like situation, in which corporate lobbyists are shaken-down for money and white liberals (as well as blacks) are kept to their own ghettos.

Someone must be held accountable. Someone will be.

The biggest threats going forward for eBay remain the banks and the Bells. A Google tie-up helps on both fronts.

This is the most remarkable story of our time, the one you're reading right now, the one you're a part of. It makes journalism cheap and easy to do. It makes politics cheap and easy to do.

The bloggers are winning. Life is becoming more transparent. No one can hide anymore. You can't intimidate a few corporations anymore and make it all go away.

If you're not killing plants you're not a gardener -- you're a conservationist. And conservation isn't a business model.

While the excess of 40 years ago was relatively peaceful (until the very end of the movement), mainly involving self-destruction, the excess of today is rhetorical, and could become far more dangerous very quickly.