Re: Confidential - The Annual Dinner

how are you. I wont be there this year. I will be in Santa Fe, with Chomsky and group

I would much rather be with Chomsky and you any day. TED, more and more is becoming a goyshekopf cult (even for the few Jews that still attend). But wait a minute - are you going to get along with Chomsky over Israel? Or, more likely, is that why you are having the meeting?

Things here are great. I am very pleased about it. Maybe I should auction off naming rights.

Funny thing happened with EDGE. In the past year or so according to Google Analytics, it's advanced to the PageRank 8/10, reserved to mega-websites (think ESPN, AOL), and/or major publications with hundreds, if not thousands of employees. EDGE, as far as I can tell, is the only independent website with a 7-10 PageRank which indicates that it has the same importance and influence as The Economist, FT, Le Monde, Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Wall Street Journal, Washington Post. Yearly Readers: 1.7m. Go figure. It goes without saying, of course, that without your moral support and not just money, it never would have happened. Thank you.

JB

p.s. Seth Lloyd and Sean Carroll yesterday on Science Friday discussing 'This Scientific Idea Must Die". bit.ly/lzqdRhm http://t.co/7D1mXHZ9kx