Well, where to start? I know! The very beginning. But I have to keep this brief, Savannah and I are meeting a journalist in a pub in a bit.

It’s been a heckuva few weeks. Fridaycities is beginning to go mental - everyone and their dog is signing up, and most of their dogs are upgrading to Premium membership, which is excellent. We’ve launched a new Commercial membership thing where companies can join in the community by giving away discount vouchers, special offers and the like. Everyone’s a winner.

Business-wise, I can’t say too much, save to say that we’ll be making an announcement on some things that are very exciting to us, very shortly. Huzzah.

Books: the Second Life book is out in a couple of weeks, on both sides of the Atlantic. Pond and I have advance copies and it looks awesome. By which I mean, we were filled with awe. Given the quick turnaround, Pan have excelled themselves. Kudos to all, particularly Jon Butler. And they left in my joke about the Second Life sandboxes being filled with sand and furries, signifying nothing as well as Pond’s ball-gag material. Super.

Other book: I mentioned one a few posts ago. And I’ve had emails ever since. In a nut…

I’m writing a book - for Weidenfeld and Nicolson (an imprint of Orion) about my adventures in the dot com world. First as an observer, then suddenly thrust in to the middle of being an entrepreneur 2.0. I’ve got the advance title info sheet in front of me and - I shit you not - it’s being described as Toby Young’s ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’ meets Chris Anderson’s ‘The Long Tail’.

Losing friends and alienating tail.

Story of my bloody life.

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