Welcome to the blogosphere, Esther Dyson

Xeni Jardin 4:43 pm Thu Apr 24, 2003

Esther Dyson's here at Emerging Tech today — and she just told me she launched a blog today, "Release 4."

Well, there's no time to start a blog like when you run into Ev Williams at a conference (thanks, Tim O'Reilly) and he offers to help personally to set you up with your very own blog.

As I was saying to the bloggerati this morning (Doc & Allen Searls, the Davids of all persuasions, Richard Soderberg, Geoff Cohen, et al.), a lot of what I do is stuff I simply can't write about: internal meetings with portfolio companies, corporate regime change, private briefings and such. This blog will be an experiment covering the things I *can* talk about. But now I need to give this machine back so they can close the exhibit….

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