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This week had some very interesting news coming in from the Oracle of Omaha ! It’s not everyday you come across someone who gives away over 85% of his wealth in charity. Its not the sheer billions that it translates to, but in absolute terms, 85% means a freaking lot. Personally, I am not sure, I can take a decision of that magnitude. But what the heck, It was his decision and I am mighty glad that people like him actually are around in these days of brazen money-driven lifestyles. However, I was thinking something else with regard to these huge sums. And a reporter at LA times has already done a very good report on that. With such abundance of private money, would Governments start shying away from what is essentially their *duty* ? Some of the points raised in that story are indeed interesting, and more importantly, worrying

The Tech blogging world has been seeing some changes of late. Om Malik, he of GigaOm fame, has left Business 2.0 to create a web 2.0 business out of his insanely popular blog, and has snapped up some early seed VC funding too. Om has been one of the authors whom I’ve followed for quite a while, and somehow that did not come as a surprise. OTOH, Scoble runs what is perhaps the most popular blog by any Microsoft employee. His reach in the blogdom is something that M$ as a company can only dream of and his call-a-spade-a-spade attitude has won him many an avid reader. And it was with much surprise that I read about his plans to move on to an absolute podcasting startup. Bob has single-handedly, arguably, generated more positive PR for M$ than what their entire PR team has done trying to give twists to stories and events.

Of-course, reaction from regular visitors to these sites has been diverse, but what I thought interesting was the fact that yet again, blogs have come to the fore-front in terms of how they defined their authors, particularly when they are hugely popular blogs. These two saw merit in making their blogs,and with it, their audience, an integral part of their career plans. While their blogs would still be definitely interesting to watch out for, it will be interesting to see how Bob is able to retain his enormous readership, and influence, now that he isn’t at the company that everyone loves to bitch about ! Om’s blog on the other hand, should grow even more interesting now that he has some monies and as he says, a few ideas.  Any takers for my blog?

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