Two Interesting Posts ...

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Over the weekend I checked out quite a few other blogs and sites and a couple of things caught my eye.

First was Fred Wilson's blog post "Earning Your Media". Now here's a great use of Twitter by a small business called Kogi that operates two Korean barbeque taco trucks (!) in L.A. Basically they twitter their planned location each day and their 13,000 or so followers then know exactly when and where to get the goodies! Isn't that great! No cost media to your closest followers!

Second was by Camiile Ricketts on VentureBeat purporting to be a comprehensive list of venture capital firms that are "walking dead". These are firms that no longer have funds to invest, are closed down etc. While the list appears to need further scrubbing it clearly reminds one that the VC world is not always a happy one ...