Been a little caught up for the last two weeks so there are not one but two columns online. The first, entitled, Did Techcrunch really kill Blognation? Time – and the courts – will tell deals with the latest drama between Sam Sethi and Techcrunch. Read it and weep.

And then there’s this week’s, which begins like this…

“This week has reminded me why I left London. I’m exhausted to the point of delirium, my eyes hurt, my brain has been replaced with a thick, hot broth and I’m pretty certain my liver is making a break for it, stopped only by whatever creature is blocking its path through my oesophagus. I am, to put it in more basic terms, dead.

To be fair, my dramatic physical and mental deterioration is not entirely London’s fault. This week the city has been playing host to “The Traveling Geeks“, a ridiculously titled but otherwise well-intentioned group of – ahem – “A-List Bloggers” who are here on a school trip from Silicon Valley to find out how our internet industry ticks. In practical terms this involves the likes of Sarah 2.0, Robert “Scooby” Scoble and Craig “Slist” Newmark being dragged from office to office across town for meetings with Intel, Skype, British Telecom and – uh – the Guardian. Yunno, those plucky start-ups of London 2.0. The plan, presumably, is for them to then go away suitably impressed and to a-list blog about what they’ve learned – a plan which would be slightly easier to execute if Mal Maison, the group’s base hotel in Farringdon, didn’t have Wi-Fi that wasn’t so laughably hard to use that Jeff Pulver is surely considering using them as the venue for the next 140 Conf. The Americans, of course, are too polite and professional to complain, so I’m doing it for them. You’re welcome, Americans.”

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