Tag, I'm It!

Well I can't think of a better catalyst to get my blog project off the ground, than receiving a Blog- Tag from Chris Shipley, of DEMO fame. I'm still waiting on the domain name of choice to come through, but I thought to myself, why wait? For those out of the know, the idea behind Pulver's Blog-Tag is pretty simple. When you get tagged, you have to share five things most people probably didn't know about you, on your blog of course (yes, must have blog to play), then tag five others. From the looks of it, I'm in good company with Chris, and her tagged five. Check 'em out yourself. In honor of the brand, I'm modifying the rules to share six little known facts about me to introduce Sixorg. Read on...

1. As for Sixorg, well its been a long time coming. After years of badgering from my friends like Ross Mayfield at Socialtext, Giovanni Rodriguez - PR dynamo-guru-extraordinaire, and Dave Sifry over at Technorati way back in 2004, I've finally pulled it together to get my vocals online. Mostly so these guys and the rest of my crew don't have to listen to me rant and rave about the tech industry in person. Now they can deal with me in doses, or avoid me all together.

Tag, tag, and tag, you three are it!

2. Watch this space for several interesting things to come. I'm particularly interested in challenging conventional wisdom and conventional commentary on a range of hardcore topics including web search, user experience, product design, startups, and the truths, lies, and videotapes of the venture capital game. When I say hardcore, I mean sans the fluff, hype, and Kool-Aid that inebriates even the highest profile industry websites and blogs in action today.

3. After building seven startups in the Valley, its time I join fray to separate the industry truths from the naive, the misinformed, and from those that haven't been there nor done that. Man, if those walls could only talk. There's a juicy best-seller in there just waiting to break free...someday.

I'm also inspired by those that have paved the way into this game, including John Battelle, good friend to Groxis back in the day, and Matt Marshall from the Merc and now VentureBeat.

John, Matt, tag, tag you're both it!

4. I am a closet architect (read: not licensed nor formally trained). I've designed 3 buildings that have actually gone into production as I like to say. One of which I live in today.

5. Huge fan of The Police. Reunited for a 30th anniversary tour in 2007. My Sting stories to follow, later in the year.

6. I had a really inspiring conversation today with the founder of Linden Lab, Philip Rosedale, aka Philip Linden in Second Life. There is definitely way more to this story, and to Philip, than most people realize. More on this later in Sixorg, once I turn up my Second Life account.

A real-time 'tag you're it' Philip!

So there you have it. Six little known facts, six tags, and Sixorg. Chris Shipley, I owe you next round at the pub, it's all your fault.

Welcome to the show, let's get on to the good stuff. Grok 'n roll.

Cheers,

-- R.J.

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