April 4 Invitation

I want to invite my readers to an exhibition of work by a dear friend and an artist for whom I have the highest regard.

Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 8)

Om Malik was one of the pioneers of the blogging movement. Here, he discusses his early days of blogging. SM: How did people find out about your blog? The mainstream media was certainly not talking about blogs yet. OM: I think there were a bunch of us talking about it. It was intriguing for me

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 7)

Om navigates his destiny through the market downturn … SM: Red Herring crashed too didn’t it? OM: Red Herring lasted a bit. As the market started to turn down, I think it was in September 2001, just before 9/11, I got a chance to go back to New York because I had not felt comfortable

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 6)

Om stayed with Forbes for several years, helping it become an established online venue. He then left to join a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley amidst the madness of the late Dotcom era. SM: At Forbes, for the first time you were working in an American professional environment, right? OM: Yes. This was more

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 5)

One of the seminal moments in Om’s evolution has been his stint at Forbes.com, which at the time, intersected with the infancy era of online media. SM: How did you get involved with Forbes? OM: Forbes had a piece on ARPANET which had a really profound impact on me. From there I kept building. Forbes

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