Ernest Miller: "C|Net News runs yet another hyper-libertarian/quasi-anarchist rant from Declan McCullagh, this time about getting rid of the FCC (Why the FCC should die). Don't get me wrong, few people despise the FCC's current incarnation more than me... However, McCullagh is also suffering a serious bout of cognitive dissonance when it comes to his solution..."

Derek Lowe: "Even with sizable market penetration, I still think that Imclone stock is no bargain at 70-odd dollars a share... My advice to IMCL shareholders continues to be: cash in and run laughing to the bank. That's what Carl Icahn is doing..."

Clay Shirky: "Because of its plasticity, because of the tech-savvy nature of the road warrior clan who make up the core of its attendees, and because the 'money for value' equation is quite direct, the conference form is an early warning of the pressures other social forms, better but not perfectly insulated, are going to undergo as social software continues to blow back through existing institutions."

Gregory Narain, who's joined Stowe Boyd at Get Real, in a discussion of Apple's Rendezvous and how its "methodology of auto-discovery will be unlatched from Apple" in the coming weeks: "A valuable characteristic of a network is the inherent ability for nodes to discover their parents, siblings, and children. For years, more and more network technologies have been spawned that ease this process for not only the humans at the helm but also for the system agents that drudge through the data on our behalf..."

Dana Blankenhorn: "Spam is about to merge with organized crime... Within a year, I predict, the days of the individual spammer will be over. The days of the corporate spammer will be here. And the volumes of hard-to-trace spam that will result will dwarf anything we have seen to date..."

Ernest Miller, in a post entitled 'The Future of Television News and the Death of Chattering Monkeys': "Smart news programmers will begin to develop their shows so that elements within them can be easily linked to and RSS-ified. They will realize that the authority of their show will only grow if people are linking and sharing it..."