Boston Blogs Too!

  In this morning's Boston Globe Scott Kirsner was kind enough to highlight one of our blog posts about Twitter in his Monday Business column called Blog Filter. I point this out at the risk of being considered a "Self-Promoting Narcissist," one of the Twitter Personas I outlined in the blog post he points to in his column.

It's great to see Scott's weekly compilation of interesting posts from Boston area bloggers. One of the other posts he references this week is from our former client Chris Herot's blog and discusses a Harvard Law School panel he attended regarding the impact of noncompete agreements. Kirsner also included some data he had referenced on his own Innovation Economy blog about New England venture capital investment falling further behind Silicon Valley investment. The trend line is not good, Scott reports.  Despite this, elsewhere in the Globe (thanks, John Dodge, for pointing this out in a Tweet this morning) there is a story about Microsoft making a major investment in Cambridge, MA in the Boston Concept Development Center in Lotus's old stomping grounds. Given Ray Ozzie's roots and influence on this (his brother Jack is the GM and former Loti Reed Sturtevant is its director), it sounds familiar to me -- Iris 2.0, anyone?

There is a lot to blog and tweet about -- and invest in -- here on the east coast.  A little self-promotional narcissism for the region is not a bad thing.