Eric Eldon

just another tech blogger on friendfeed
RT @CaseyNewton: This @peterhartlaub list of the seven most ironic post-arrest Leland Yee press releases is a comic feast http://blog.sfgate.com/thebige...
the tech community @susanmernit envisions for oakland is like the one some of us had hoped for in SF last decade http://liveworkoakland.com/2014...
RT @michelemclellan: Great post by @susanmernit on age/gender-snobbery in tech - http://liveworkoakland.com/2014...
Twitter killed Stephen Colbert’s joke http://www.salon.com/2014... via @Salon
never gets old ♫ Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (40th Anniversary Celebration/ Super Deluxe Edition) – Elton John http://open.spotify.com/album...
fwiw, over the years friendly former googlers have advised me to avoid gmail for reporting about google http://recode.net/2014...
RT @rezendi: @eldon It's always a shame when friends get priced out of a place and have to move somewhere far away but cheaper.
RT @eshih: @eldon that's why I put in my proposal to build the Bay Area to Brooklyn Hyperloop.
RT @qhardy: .@eldon Suggest "New York is San Francisco's new Brooklyn."
RT @gaberivera: @eldon I think there's a SF->NYC->SF trend piece waiting to happen too!
RT @Megan: The Fortune Leadership Infamy Awards: http://money.cnn.com/gallery... (& please check out the delightful pic on the http://money.cnn.com/magazin... homepage)
very disturbed by the number of long-time bay area friends who have been moving to NYC. i could damn near write a magazine article about it
RT @dangillmor: NSA lawyer didn't say tech companies knew everything the agency was doing, after all. See correction at end: http://www.theguardian.com/world...
RT @toomuchnick: @eldon You could have asked that question TWICE
RT @toomuchnick: @eldon exactly the question I explore in my new film, "The Butterfly Effect But It's About Twitter's Character Limit"
how would the world be different today if twitter had given everyone, say, 200 characters per tweet
RT @stuartdredge: @eldon I think Courtney Love has been looking at images and has found the kille... Oh, wait.
kurt cobain investigation reopened? on behalf of myself in middle school: HOLY SHIT http://www.kirotv.com/news...
RT @dangillmor: So someone's lying. NSA lawyer says tech companies like Google were "fully aware" of what NSA was doing. http://www.theguardian.com/world...
and in case 140 New Montgomery seems extra familiar to some of you, it was also “The Galvin Corp” back in SimCity 4! http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
i guess this means i too should not take my German Shepherd to Brazil: http://www.bbc.com/news...
— as told to his memoir editor (via wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"I can handle a hundred thousand men in battle, and take the City of the Sun, but am afraid to manage a lot in the swamp of San Francisco."
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman spent some time in SF as a banker before the Civil War and had this to say about its real-estate market then:
“The best thing to do” for public transit in the city “is to put tens of thousands of people underground.” http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfran...
RT @kevglobal: @eldon @pkafka I am trying to figure out local news in Wisconsin. See @kevlocal Digital media economics at local TBD.
if you care about regional wisconsin news every day and you have limited sources to choose from, then quality is more of a bonus, still.
agree with this article except the part where it ignores the nature of modern niche publishing: http://stratechery.com/2014...
pandora has overcome crazy odds by any startup standard. congrats on everything @tconrad http://blog.pandora.com/2014...
RT @TechCrunch: Vine Takes Early Command In The Mobile Video Market Over Viddy, Socialcam And Others Despite Low Adop… http://techcrunch.com/2013... by @RJMetrics
RT @chudson: On Startups Competing with Core Mobile OS Apps... http://www.charleshudson.net/on-star...
RT @owillis: still no infowars story on the chavez death. there's space for a competitor in the insane conspiracy theory vertical