2 posts and columns on Nostradamus

BoomTown's 2009 Predictions: We Don't Know Jack (Except for AppleAppleAppleApple)

in News on January 5, 2009 at 7:17 am PT

Oh, I’m sorry, is this the part where BoomTown is supposed to make a list of some sort of what I like and don’t like, what’s hot and what’s not, what’s going to happen and such to all the various players in the digital space? I don’t think so. Why? Well because it’s a lot like Nostradamus–you can read into it anything you want. For instance, in just one week of speculation in the blogosphere: Apple CEO Steve Jobs is dying. Wait, no he is not, but is sick, so he lied. Even though he has always said he is sick. Hey, maybe he is lying and is really cured!

Readers Play Nostradamus in Facebook Exec Poll

in News on February 25, 2008 at 2:25 am PT

Well, I was kind of kidding at the end of a piece I wrote Friday about the possible top execs that Facebook might hire when I named Marc Andreessen at the end. I mostly put the Netscape founder in there as a good comparison and to make a point about how Silicon Valley always has [...]