I don't care too much for that article's conclusions. It's based on a few bits of anecdotal evidence. It could have been a useful effort if they had looked at the ages of the VCs who have been making deals in an empirical survey. I agree with you about drive being essential - after all, in what high level business endeavor is it NOT essential?!

Hey Dave,
I largely agree with your points. As far as features go, one small nit:
Since the terms of the ownership depend on the blog's TOS, and this usually results in the blog owning the comment, the right of a commenter to edit their original comment should be up to the blog owner. It should be a discretionary feature of the blog owner whether or not commenters may edit their comments after the fact. A small edit to what I think is a good position on blog comments.

From an investors standpoint, this is a great thing - tons of room for growth here, though it may not be found in the current generation of advertising technologies. From a consumer standpoint - am I going to see MORE ads on the internet?! Say it ain't so!

zachlandes :P

I hope so! But I only read a book every 1-2 weeks! I read on amazon that the number 1 non fiction reviewer reads 1-2 books a night (NONFICTION). Now THAT is the target audience for a kindle. On an unrelated note, you not following me on friendfeed/twitter seems to have the unfortunate side effect of you not getting my @replies, which are generally witty and life-enriching! So join Seth in co-stalking me!
Zach

Thought so! I'm thinking to myself, which will happen first: me flying first class or me owning an e-book reader. I'm not sure. Though if price goes down a lot on ebook readers and continues to rise on flights, then it'll be the reader, most likely.

Was this while seated in first class? :P I like the concept of the kindle a lot, but I like the library even more :)

With all this talk of Kindle, you'd think I would have seen one by now. But no, I have never seen a kindle. Ever! :(

On web forums, it is standard to have a note at the bottom of a post saying when it was last edited and by whom. Often, if it was edited by an administrator, the administrators name will be found in a special color and will link to a profile/contact for that administrator.

I can see situations where the blog publisher or article author should have editing power. For example, what if a BBC article asks for user comments (using intensedebate, I bet you guys would love that!) but users write with nearly unintelligible spelling. The blog owner should be able to edit that as long as people know it could happen when they post. But really, the site owner owns the platform, so if he wants to have the ability to edit your comments and you are forewarned of his ability, then he should be allowed to have that ability. Everyone should know that it happened, however.