1. Robert Scoble
2. Michael Arrington
3. Jack Dorsey
4. Biz Stone
5. Matt Cutts
6. Pete Cashmore
7. Dave Winer
8. Guy Kawasaki
9. Loïc Le Meur
10. Kevin Rose
11. Merlin Mann
12. Stowe Boyd
13. Jeff Atwood
14. Jeremiah Owyang
15. Veronica Belmont
16. Kara Swisher
17. Scott Beale
18. Marc Andreessen
19. Ryan Block
20. David Sifry
21. Emily Chang
22. Om Malik
23. Timothy Ferriss
24. Nick Douglas
25. John Battelle
26. David Cohn
27. Louis Gray
28. Tom Foremski
29. Tim O'Reilly
30. Ariel Waldman
31. Matt Mullenweg
32. Dean Takahashi
33. Philip Kaplan
34. JD Lasica
35. Sarah Lacy
36. Brian Solis
37. Charlene Li
38. Rafe Needleman
39. Dan Farber
40. Howard Rheingold
41. David McClure
42. Margaret Mason
43. Jason Goldman
44. Leah Culver
45. Chris Shipley
46. Jackson West
47. Liz Gannes
48. Owen Thomas
49. Adeo Ressi
50. Max Levchin

(Photo from Michael Arrington)

In a blog post last week, Tim O'Reilly announced that VC arm O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, will be hosting an event in July called OATV Startup Camp, which bears more than a passing similarity to Sun's Startup Camp. Not only that, Sun has a trademark pending on the term 'Startup Camp'. So will O'Reilly be civil and pick a new name?

Previously:

• A is for Adelson, who cofounded Digg


• B is for Botha, who sold YouTube big


• F is for Fitzpatrick, and "hookers and blow"


• L is for Levchin, who never goes slow

I have had health challenges, and my body cannot handle wifi...it gives me headaches and makes me very sick. I would be unable to go to the store, shop. I have enough problems being limited in my travels, it is outrageous that a place so environmentally conscious would create this in our/my hometown. In Europe they are much more advanced than us, and there wifi is not allowed in cities in the European commonwealth.

(Photos by arwenoreilly)

So, our questions: Come on guys, quit blogging about net neutrality or whatever and give the people what they want. Who was on the party plane? Mitch? I'm checking your blog. Tim? That's some Radar I'd like to see. Zuck? I'm checking your status updates. Nothing. Don't let us down. Oh yeah, and Paul Boutin is in the market for a new bed. What size does the Google Jet have — King, California King, or Euro King? Oh, and did any of you cheapskate tech moguls reimburse Larry and Sergey for the cost of the flight?

I've heard that Tim O'Reilly, Mitch Kapor, Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg will be on that flight. Basically, every Davos attendee from the Bay Area except me managed to hitch a ride back with Google.

Web 2.0 is supposed to be so easy a baby can use it — hence the color scheme. But when the experts try to plot out what it all means, stand back. Here's Tim O'Reilly's early attempt, What is Web 2.0:

Dion Hinchcliffe upped the ante in March with a post titled, Web 2.0 Software Models Evolve as the Conference Season Begins in Earnest. My takeaway: There's a conference season?

I suppose I need to include this one:

Enough already. I went back to O'Reilly's original post. The guy is sincerely brilliant, he just spends too much time editing advanced programming manuals. I started erasing parts of O'Reilly's diagram until I got down to what I think is the minimum for Mom:

Any questions?

Socialstream, a Google-backed research project at Carnegie Mellon University, fits right in with Fitzpatrick's and Recordon's interests. For Google, the notion of linking networks together, rather than trying to swim upstream and compete with MySpace and Facebook, makes perfect sense. Rather than trying to resurrect Google's failing Orkut network, Fitzpatrick could be joining Google to help it disrupt existing social networks' business models.

That's the likeliest plan for Fitzpatrick. But what to make of Recordon's rumored return to Six Apart? It seems strange on the surface for Recordon to be going back to the company just as Fitzpatrick, his good friend, is leaving. But good friends aren't always good coworkers. Recordon, by voting with his paycheck, seems to be signaling that Six Apart is not the truly troubled party here. It's Fitzpatrick.

What we hear, very quietly, from employees at Six Apart, where Fitzpatrick plans to work his last day on Friday, is that they're not at all sad to see Fitzpatrick go. Even LiveJournal loyalists, while showering the founder with praise, make a point of saying how little Fitzpatrick has contributed to the site he created since he sold it to Six Apart.

It all makes sense. "I'm not convinced I couldn't be just as helpful to Six Apart outside of Six Apart," he wrote recently in his LiveJournal. Practically speaking, technology that opens up social networks could benefit Six Apart's second-tier communities, LiveJournal and Vox, more than it helps the dominant players.

Then there's Fitzpatrick himself, a decidedly difficult employee. Coddled at Google by its lavish benefits and engineers-rule culture, the brilliant programmer will likely do fine. Faced with grown-up responsibilities at Six Apart, he veered between retreating and lashing out. Between business trips to Russia and a two-month sabbatical, he's spent relatively little time in the office this year, and what time he did spend wasn't pleasant, from all accounts, including Fitzpatrick's own.

Six Apart faces all sorts of challenges — not least of which is managing the mess of LiveJournal with which Fitzpatrick saddled the company. And, oddly enough for a blogging company, it struggles with coming right out and talking about its problems. But Fitzpatrick's departure, laced as it was with thinly veiled insults to his coworkers, we're now concluding, says more about him than the company he worked for. Leaving Six Apart, it seems, really is the best thing he could do for the company.

— Beth Gottfried

• Ex-Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble may miss out on Burning Man, but he'll have fun visiting the Googleplex today with Googler Matt Cutts. Insert cruel "don't empty the snack room" line here, and send phonecam pics of Scoble to tips@valleywag.com. [Matt Cutts, photo by ~C4Chaos]
• Jason Calacanis tells everyone in the Internet industry, blog or die. Somewhere, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is pumping his fist and shouting "Yessss!" [Calacanis.com]
• RSS pioneer Dave Winer says an army of unnamed people are pissed at publisher Tim O'Reilly. (And it's totally not Winer's bitter recrimination for not getting an invite to last weekend's exclusive "Friends of O'Reilly" Camp, nor the two men's ongoing battle since 2000.) [Scripting.com]

This past weekend, whether you know it or not, dozens of Silicon Valley socialites camped out with tech publisher Tim O'Reilly in Sebastopol for this year's Foo Camp, cookin' up ideas and impressing eager reporters, same as every year.

But this year, the invite-only guest list seemed to stretch just far enough that half of the Valley's hip young techies found themselves asking, "If my friend got invited, why didn't I?"

Which brings us to the inevitable question:

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Photo by Niall Kennedy [NiallKennedy.com]

But from all but Blogger co-founder Evan Williams, Curt didn't get so much as a "screw you." Not all of the non-responders are worth millions, but one suspects they're all better off than the average Central African farmer.

Decent People
Evan Williams (Blogger, Odeo)

People Who Would Rather Buy a Fourth Lexus Than Give a Dime to Keep African AIDS Babies From Going Tits Up
Chris Anderson (Wired)
Ted Leonsis (AOL)
Steve Scott Johnson (Ookles, Feedster)
Craig Newmark (Craigslist)
Craig Mundie (Microsoft)
Esther Dyson (I have no idea)
Joi Ito (goes to lots of Blogger conferences, other than that...visits diaper hookers in Kabukicho?)
Michael Arrington (Techcrunch)
Steve Wozniak (Apple)
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media)
Kevin Kelly (Wired)
Jason Calacanis (Weblogsinc/AOL)
Nick Denton (Gawker)
James Hong (Hot or Not)
Max Levchin (Slide, Paypal)

The Blogswana Project [Official site]
Donation page [Blogswana Project]

On the same day Tim O'Reilly publicly pooh-poohed the legal fears of the target of a CMP cease-and-desist letter, CMP quietly appointed an L.A. Super Lawyer - one of 'World's Leading Trademark Practitioners' - to handle the controversial Web 2.0 trademark.

Not that Valleywag likes sloppy seconds, but an item from TheoDP is usually trenchant enough to post, even if everyone else is posting it too.

But back to Winer's post, and why Theo won't blog. A little research shows that Dave and I aren't as lucky as we thought — Theo seeds the Slashdot.org forum with his e-mailed blurbs. Guess those mighty A-list bloggers can't be trusted to get out his message. And just blogging it all himself? There goes that self-satisfied audience (read: people like me) happy to re-print a tip (yay! free post!).

After the jump, reason #2.

Here's another recent Theo tip, not run on Valleywag because Wikipedia arguments are boring.

Jaron Lanier on Wikipedia: 'When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous<! ;/a> [IP info], faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia.'

So why can't he just post this on WordPress? Probably an unbreakable addiction to rough drafts. For instance, the following preceded the above:

One thing that really steams O'Reilly is giving the impression you're a disinterested submitter of a story. So Tim and company might want to look into who was behind those Wikipedia edits made by '209.204.147.33' - one for Tim O'Reilly and the other for Web 2.0 - that gave major props to O'Reilly. After all, they seem to have originated from oreilly.com, (as did recent edits by '209.204.147.111' for Unconferences, Foo Camp and Tim), a Wikipedia no-no. Guess you can only leave so much up to the Wisdom of Crowds.

And reason #3 that TheoDP doesn't blog? Pure bloody-mindedness.

TheoDP [Dave Winer, Scripting News]

In the final act of Waiting for Web 2.Godot (an original Valleywag comic), Timmy and Tommy set aside their differences, and the meaningless cycle of life continues.

Web 2.0 Service Mark Controversy (Tim responding this time) [O'Reilly Radar]
Sorry Tim [Tom Raftery]

• The New Yorker publishes a followup six years in the making — the wedding of designer Jason Kottke and Blogger co-creator Meg Hourihan. [New Yorker; Photo source: Kottke]
• Mini-Microsoft blogger stops writing; Microsoft now allowed to be huge and ungainly again. [Mini-Microsoft]
• Publisher Tim O'Reilly writes a lengthy response to the Web 2.0 (TM) shitstorm. The upshot: Yes, O'Reilly wants to own the name "Web 2.0 Conference." He's also disappointed in you all. [O'Reilly Radar]
• Blog mogul Jason Calacanis answers Michael Arrington: Jason meant to defuse the rumor that Arrington's TechCrunch reviews are for sale. But since Mike wants to make a public spat out of it, Jason's only too happy to oblige. [Calacanis.com]
• PR Agency Idea Grove wants to cheat test Technorati. Here's some help, just 'cause their site is pretty. [Idea Grove]
• "In McKinsey space," says VC blogger Paul Kedrosky, "no one can hear you scream." The consultants that told eBay not to worry about Google's PayPal killer, now invites other dot-coms to a bull session. [Paul Kedrosky]
• See, it's funny because Google bought GoogleMastercard.com on the eve of MasterCard's IPO. PayPal is screwed. [Simple SEM]
• Someone forgot the first two rules of Fight Club. [USA Today]

Media company CMP sent a cease-and-desist to Tom Raftery for holding a "Web 2.0 Conference," claiming that with publisher O'Reilly Media, it co-owns the "Web 2.0" service mark for conferences. Raftery posted the C&D. He noted that publishing magnate Tim O'Reilly himself recently politely declined attending the event. Raftery's conclusion: Tim is a dirty backstabbing money-grubber.

Most bloggers agreed.

Since the last roundup:

• Raftery calls Cory Doctorow's (surprisingly fair) Boing Boing essay "as biased...as I have seen outside of the O'Reilly blog." [Raftery]
• And then the backlash. Smaller blogger Stubbleblog makes the best point: regardless of the trademark issue, Raftery's kind of being a sensationalist dick. [Stubbleblog]
• As Stubbleblog notes, the O'Reilly Media blog is scraping comment-troll barnacles off its other posts. [O'Reilly Radar]

Oh, there's more. Click that jump.

• HEY EVERYBODY MARC CANTER HAS MORE TO SAY. The Macromedia founder writes that trademarks are no fun: "I have come up with names and concepts - which were trademarked - so I couldn't use them." Marc, that kinda means you didn't come up with them. [Broadband Mechanics]
• O'Reilly VP Sarah Winge tells the NY Times, "What's important...is a conversation started." Well, more of a spitting contest, but okay. [NYT]
• Web philosopher Chris Messina, today's designated whipping boy, decides that by taking a cautious stance, Cory Doctorow (who, okay, really IS in Tim O'Reilly's pocket) let Chris down. He also decides that with his post's conclusion, all discussion is over: "And yeah, go ahead, tell me that I'm naive and that's not how business works and blah blah blah ok-you're-boring-me [...] Ok then, case closed." [Chris Messina, FactoryJoe]
• Just as his 15 minutes wind down, Raftery podcasts with bold-name Web 2.0 investor Jeff Clavier today. Jeff wonders who's interviewing whom. [Jeff Clavier]

Earlier: Web 2.0 (TM): The shit hits the fans [Valleywag]

• Ryan from Adaptive Path, inventors repackagers of Ajax, writes why AP's cooler than O'Reilly. [Second Verse]
• Zorba the Greek owns Web 27.0, y'all, so no steppin'. [Zorba the Greek]
• Why did respected blogger Thomas Hawk retract his lash-out like so: "First off I probably should not be calling Tim O'Reilly an asshole. It's not a very nice thing to call someone and it's somewhat juvenile." A reader says it's politics: "Thomas Hawk is an FM [blog ad network] member, btw. Dollars to donuts he got a call from [O'Reilly friend and FM owner] Battelle after the "asshole" remark." [Thomas Hawk's retraction]
• By the way, John Battelle is STILL NOT GOING TO COMMENT about the (totally-unfair-guys-really-tim's-away-that's-vacation-immunity-guys-guys-please-guys) O'Reilly affair, except to update and say Cory Doctorow's big-fucking-benefit-of-the-doubt post was fair. [Battelle Media]

Bigger, earlier updates: Web 2.0 (TM): The shit hits the fans [Valleywag]

• Tim won't sue Tom! Yay! Happy puppies and cake! [O'Reilly Radar]
• Oh wait shit Tom's pissed! "Is it just me or are they still not getting it?" asks Tom in a post titled "O'Reilly's mean-spirited response." He explains: "They are asking us to sign a document saying we won't hold any future events with the term Web 2.0 in the title." [Tom Raftery]
• I have written "Tom" for "Tim" and "Tim" for "Tom" seven times and had to fix it. GET NEW NAMES.
• O'Reilly has more tech heavyweights on his embarrassing Techmeme discussion page than he's ever had at his conferences. (Hint: Hover on "Discussion" and hit "+".) [Techmeme]

After the jump, more things that have happened.

• Macromedia founder Marc Canter has spoken from the hazy depths of his offices (Marc, your offices smell GOOD!) and turned from crazy old uncle to wise old uncle: Gee, he wonders, why hasn't activist Cory Doctorow added this to his mega-stream of IP-related Boing Boing articles? Surely it has NOTHING to do with Cory and Tim's friendship! COULDN'T BE. (Also: Marc wins award for awesomest illustrative photo.) [Broadband Mechanics]
• Update: Cory speaks — without swears, vitriol, or exclamation marks. It's like seeing Bill O'Reilly act like Garrison Keillor. [Boing Boing]
• Another Buddy-O-Reilly's, Boing Boing band manager John Battelle, will not comment until he talks to Tim. Nope, he will NOT take sides til he hears both. Wouldn't be fair.
• BUT-I'M-ON-TIM'S-SIDE-K-THX-BYE. [John Battelle]
• Thomas Hawk says it with pictures. [Thomas Hawk]
• Hawk updates: "First off I probably should not be calling Tim O'Reilly an asshole." [Thomas Hawk]
• Shel Israel has an entire naked conversation with himself but manages to say nothing. [Naked Conversations]
• Michael Arrington holds a Web 2.0 Party. Next up: Why Michael Arrington can kick Tim O'Reilly's ass. [TechCrunch]

Earlier: Anatomy of a shitstorm: O'Reilly trademarks Web 2.0 [Valleywag]

"Tim O'Reilly needs to muzzle his lawyers immediately and respond publicly, personally and immediately to the situation, because I sense that a lynching is about to occur in the blogosphere." — TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, CrunchNotes

"This just has to be one of those bone-headed things lawyers do when no one is looking. If it isn't, than I would predict that O'Reilly has just put himself on the fast track to reputation implosion." — Shel Israel, Naked Conversations

Et après eux, le déluge.

O'Reilly trademarks "Web 2.0″ and sets lawyers on IT@Cork! [IT@Cork]

As a matter of fact, I sent the prior art I had to the folks who were in legal dispute with Amazon in Australia.

The reason I didn't disclose it on the web is because patent attorneys advised that, because of the way the patent system is set up, the patent owner gets first crack at revising its patent to include the prior art if there is a re-exam. You therefore want to keep it in reserve for a lawsuit.

Gawd, this is all so 1999. Rebuttals can go in the comments.

Earlier: Tim O'Reilly don't astonish no one [Valleywag]

Speaking at Startup School, publisher Tim O'Reilly invoked Mark Twain's 'Do the right thing. You will gratify some people and astonish the rest' quote to introduce the story of his 2001 protest against Amazon's 1-Click patent. No word on which quote he uses to introduce the story of his 2003 decision to not share 1-Click prior art that could quash the patent. As Twain once said, 'Facts are stubborn things.'

My Talk at Startup School [O'Reilly Radar]

Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake: Founded Flickr, a photo-sharing site. Sold to Yahoo. Current occupation: showing that Yahoo can nurture the Flickr brand.
Joshua Schachter: Founded social bookmarking site del.icio.us. Also sold to Yahoo. Current occupation: reminding people where those dots go.
Mary Hodder: Founded Dabble, a video-sharing site. Current occupation: hopefully pulling Dabble out of private beta to play with all the other vid sites.
Tim O'Reilly: Defined "Web 2.0" in an epic essay. Current occupation: Running O'Reilly Media; secretly crafting "Web 3.0" essay.
Dalton Caldwell: Founded social IM service imeem. Current occupation: throwing parties.

Next up: Wow, Newsweek gets it.

The New Wisdom of the Web [Newsweek]

Bill and Ted are just chatting, when—

"Tim — did you hear that?"

"Microsoft haters. Three, maybe four of them. Approaching fast. Don't worry, my fighting technique is unstoppable."

After the jump, Bill lays the smack down and the joke careens past any point where it was funny.

Bill Gates: "We need microformats" [factoryjoe on YouTube]

"Bring it on, boys!"

Bill readies a double karate chop to the neck.

"Thass right, you don't mess with Billy G."

The sad truth: Bill also punches like a girl.

Moments later, the attacker's foot is in Bill's hand, where it is wrenched clockwise, causing severe agony.

"Now get the hell out of my conference."

"And that's why you don't fuck with me, Tim."

Become gangsta O'Reilly, of the fuck-you-up mustache?

Does the dude have to look edgy for ETech? What's up?

Tim O'Reilly [Dan Farber on Flickr]
Tim O'Reilly, March 7 [Richard Giles on Flickr]