The Trend Has Been Mobile Was Winning.

It's Very Difficult For Governments To Dominate The Internet Because It's So Difficult To Control. People Want To Be Free. People Want To Hear Multiple Voices. They Want To Make Their Own Decisions. And People Who See Things Will Report Things.

The Thing That People Seem To Miss About Not Just Google, But Also Our Competitors, Yahoo, Ebay And So Forth, Is That There's An Awful Lot Of Communities That Have Never Been Served By Traditional Media.

I Think To Some Degree One Of The Strengths Of The High Tech Industry Is That People Are Actually Willing To Tell You Things. When I Went To Novell, I Didn't Know How To Be A Ceo, So I Went In And I Called All Sorts Of Ceos I Knew. I Called In A Favor. I Wanted To Come By And Listen To Them Tell Me What It's Like To Be A Ceo.

I Believe That This Notion Of Self-publishing, Which Is What Blogger And Blogging Are Really About, Is The Next Big Wave Of Human Communication. The Last Big Wave Was Web Activity. Before That One It Was E-mail. Instant Messaging Was An Extension Of E-mail, Real-time E-mail.

Since I Have Access To Every, Every Crisis In The World Because It's Always Blaring At Me On Cable Television, That Doesn't Mean I Have To Worry About Every One Of Them. This Is Also Known As Knowing Where The 'off' Button Is.