Steve Gillmor and I had a nice conversation today, and I want to say straight up that my comments I made yesterday were off base. I retract the assertions that I made in the posting, and have a much keener understanding today of acceptable cross promotion, and what I interpreted to be a conflict of interest was in fact exactly the opposite.
Obviously Steve pulls the brightest minds in the business into his show, and are names that anyone that has been around tech for more than a week know. Having worked in an industry were I do not inter mingle one business with another, in fact am strictly prohibited from doing so led me into applying some of those rules unjustly to the multi-company relationship Steve enjoys and works very hard at staying transparent at.
So a heartfelt apology goes out to Steve and the Gillmor Gang participants. I am man enough to stand up and say I was absolutely off base and wrong on this one, and will work hard in the future to insure that if I have a concern to pick up the phone first.
To my readers and visitors of this site I appreciate your continued support and will work hard to make sure that everything you read on this site has the level of transparency that is required to keep your trust.
Todd…