Monday September 9, 2024; 12:44 PM EDT
- Are the Apple announcements like great reunions for people who have been going to these things regularly for 20+ years? If so, I can see the value in it. #
- I went to a reunion at Berkman, after 20 years, and it was great, made me wonder why we didn't do it every year for the last 20. When you get a group of people together who do great things in a special moment, you should see them from time to time. #
But I have a feeling there's a lot of turnover at the Apple events. In any case, I stopped going to them somewhere in the mid-90s, or more accurately they stopped inviting me. Yeah I was disruptive, but only in comparison to how well-behaved the other journos were (at that time I was writing for Wired). #- The press was in awe of Apple and other Valley companies. I enjoyed that for a very brief period when my company went public after I had a hit Mac product. Then I became something of a pariah, because I started blogging and believe me the icons of the Valley for the most part did not like it. They were accustomed to fawning attention and rewritten press releases. But because I was an insider, I had an idea where the bodies might be buried, and I wrote about it. Woz liked it. I was popular at the parties, I guess. #
- BTW, Heidi Roizen once observed that I took a date to an Apple announcement (the one where Steve came back). There weren't many people there, maybe 20 or 25. #
- Jeff Jarvis wrote in the foreword to his upcoming book that I'm like the Zelig of tech. This is what he meant, imho. 😄#
- We're coming up on the 30th anniversary of my blog, one month from tomorrow. You won't hear anyone from tech applauding, and you probably won't hear anything from the old bloggers. But I have something special in mind myself. Hopefully it'll come together in the next month, or sooner. :-)#
- Let's go back to 1994, by looking to the future. You won't need an invite, btw. It'll open to everyone.#