Miscellaneous

Too busy to think about one long post so I thought I'd put together a number of unrelated things:
Alacra Board member Fred Wilson has a great post (with over 80 comments) titled We Need A New Path To Liquidity.  Most of the comments are relate to how VCs and entrepreneurs can exit their investments/companies with the IPO market dry.  Internet M&A has practically destroyed a bunch of great companies.  If you're an information industry professional and you read Fred's post, you'll see parallels with all the information industry M&A that took place between 1990 and 2000.  Great small companies were acquired by information or media giants and then went nowhere, but slowly.
Monday and Tuesday of next week I'll be at Buying & Selling eContent in Scottsdale.  I'm on a panel Monday morning moderated by Ed Keating called Web 2.0 - Buzzwords or Business.
For the dwindling number of newspaper fans in the world, check out Marc Andreessen's post Birth of Newspapers part ; The Very First Newspaper.
New to the favorite blogger list: Felix Salmon at Portfolio.com.  Consistently excellent.
If you have a high school freshman scream at him/her: "These grades count!"  I just got back from one of my twins' college placement counselors and those freshman "adjustment year" grades are really a drag.