The unpopular opinion

So earlier today, I caught a bit of heat for a Twitter that criticized SxSW and the people who were attending it, including my boss. Not to say that he's not going for a legitimate reason or that he's worthy of criticism, but rather that a majority of people who will be attending shouldn't be attending - they should be working. The thing is, having left SF for the grayer pastures of NYC, I've noted several things that I'd like to address, how matter how unpopular they are or how unpopular they might make me for saying them. They are, unordered:

• Twitter has no business model. Traffic is not a business (see: Yahoo!) and it's laughable Facebook almost bought them for $500M.


• If you are popular in San Francisco only, you are not popular. ... Read more