There are Blogs (cap B), and there are blogs (little b). I am a little b.

I got a call from a third level acquaintance that works at a Pacific Northwest investment bank; he was panting that, “the Microsoft deal is off the table.” Fill Stop.

I asked for his attribution, he declined, and I wrote it up. If my blog was a destination, and I was taking ad or subscriber dollars, I’m not sure that I’d be so quick to publish.

But as I’m really just a small time contractor, and not a professional journalist or even a capital B Blogger, I figured what the heck.

I might turn the source over to a real writer with investigative resources, someone who can dig and substantiate the claims.

Of course, if it turns out my source was / is accurate – well, then we know how it shakes, and folks might take some of my posts seriously.

One last note: Fred Wilson is never, ever, wrong. Anyone who controls the doling out of capital is never wrong. <:?