"She was certainly not the first person I’d heard this from. I hear this almost everywhere I go where there are people talking about social media, and I feel that it is time that I rise up against it. In fact, I did, right there and then. I grabbed the microphone from her grasp and said, 'I am not a brand' ... Some people don’t get it. They don’t get that the internet is a conversation."

"How do we know whether content is any good?" Heuristics and checklists.

Aesthetics matter; appearance affects usability. What web designers have long believed has now been proven.

"Frequently, stories aren't right for TechTicker or BusinessWeek, but might work for this blog or a freelance project or maybe even (hint?) a new book. I can't tell you how freeing that is after years of laboriously pitching stories, writing stories I didn't care about and having to play the newsroom game. You can't put a price on autonomy."

"The problem is now," he told Charlie Rose in 1997, "that a lot of the schticks of postmodernism — irony, cynicism, irreverence — are now part of whatever it is that's enervating the culture itself." Perhaps David Foster Wallace, in the end, lost his personal fight to overcome that enervation. What he left behind made that struggle worthwhile.

Gary Vaynerchuk thinks Calcanis is LL Cool J or something -- seriously, though, I hope some execs watch this.