Thank you!
I’ve meaning to do this for, well, about five months. Huge thanks to everyone who’s been blogging about The Starfish and the Spider. Watching it spread has been an incredibly interesting and humbling experience.
So, in no particular order, a partial list of the bloggers I owe a huge thank you to:
Shannon Clark; Jack & Kate & all the other folks at CEORead; Ted Rheingold (and for featuring our cat Mickey as the cat of the day); John Lilly; Austin Hill; Sherbeam Wright; Jeremiah Owyang, Steve Addison, David Wolfe; Chris Messina and of course, Tara Hunt; Jim Estill; Scott “Motorsports” (who thought the S&S would be applicable to the world of racecars); Curtis Gale; John Moore; DigitalNow; Brad Hightower; Siona van Dijk; Auren Hoffman (who, I think, was the first to blog about the book, and is also one of the stars of the book); Lance Ford; Noah Kagan (who has also hooked me up with countless folks); Jeff Petry; Russel Knight; Aaron Overton; Bruce Reyes; Frank Cohen; Guy Muse; Arik Johnson; Jaeson Ma; PalePhoenix; Elijah Fan; Alan Hirsch (who was one of the first to introduce the book to the house church movement); Adam Nash; Caterina Fake; Pastor Jerry; Cynthia Brumfield; Ramit Sethi (organizer of the first-ever starfish book give-away); Renee Blodgett; Helen Losch; Eric; Steve Liebowitz; Zuki; Ben Casnocha (check out his new book); George Bullard; Mike; Chris Brogan (of Podcamp fame); Chris Yeh; Leslie Ann; Mike of blip.tv fame; Mark Howell; Frank Huber; Usha Sekar; Gail Taylor; Shane Deike; Sara Olsen (without whom I never would have gone to Burning Man); Pip Coburn; Bengt Wendell (all the way from Sweden); JWG; Kareem Mayan (who’s doing some really interesting work on organizational democracy); Ann Oliveri; Vivek Sodera; Justin Majeau; Bob; Devin Reams (one of the early bloggers as well); Andrew & Jen; Stephani; Abe; Alex; Ben Cheek; Rob Bergman; Neil Cole (host of the CMA conference); Andrew Feldstein; Bill Regehr.
I’m sure I’m missing some names, so I’ll edit this post when it isn’t 2:30 am…
February 13th, 2007 at 5:54 am
Hey Ori. Thank YOU back. I was just at dinner the other night with Deb Schultz, and we talked about you and the book once again. In fact, I mention it about once every few days (thanks for those commission checks!).
I’m really excited to have met you in NYC and I look forward to maybe working with you or supporting your efforts in the future. You can always reach out to me, if you need something.
-Chris…
February 13th, 2007 at 11:35 am
It was my pleasure, Ori. It was great to actually see you on Saturday. Thanks for introducing me to a great book (my friends loved it, too).
February 13th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
No problem Ori, you’ve made our work easier to explain!
Perhaps it’s not ironic that your book has spread through the Starfish network — perhaps better than the Spider network?
February 13th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
My pleasure Ori;)
March 7th, 2007 at 11:55 am
ori, you’re helping me spread the word about democratic organizations… so, thanks!
ps> didn’t know you were blogging… rad!