DISQUS

therealmccrea · 1 year ago

Nice post. I remain optimistic about Silicon Valley, and am thinking about how best to capture that in a post of my own.
ChangeForge | Ken Stewart · 1 year ago

Great read... this is realistic - not doom and gloom or disingenuous hype. Thank you.
chachra · 1 year ago

Excellent post, gives balanced views and perspective.
Richard MacManus · 1 year ago

Louis, I totally agree. It's time for the people who hyped web 2.0 during the boom to show leadership and encouragement, not slam them in order to get easy page views.

Here is my response, which was inspired by posts from Sramana Mitra, Nat Torkington, Fred Wilson and our own Bernard Lunn:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/whats_next...

I'm hoping to further this series on RWW, try harder to get to the innovation stories.
Svetlana Gladkova · 1 year ago

Louis, excellent opinion here, I think and I support you 100% in this vision. I think that the panic and hysteria are partly responsible for the overall devastation and those that can influence the public opinion should really try to use that influence wisely whenever they can. Of course, it does not mean that everyone should describe everything as rosy when it is not so but it will be good trying to point to both good and negative points not to scare everyone any further.
marshal sandler · 1 year ago

What recessions do is weed out the bad ideas from the good and move timetables. This sentence you wrote tells it all !