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" A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. "
Investment
Merger
Only
" As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch. "
Time
Push
Culture
" As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend. "
Everything
Like
Mind
" As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary. "
Said
Think
Visionary
" As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way. "
Good
Interest
Way
" As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical. "
More
Become
Will
" BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart. "
Been
Fan
Big Fan
" Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me. "
Me
Myself
Service
" Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere. "
Time
Wireless
Fate
" Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry. "
Technology
iPhone
Despite
" Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago. "
Brain
Sunday
Sunny
" Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will. "
Myself
Home
Think
" Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.' "
Washington
Early
Everything
" For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. "
Loving
Record
Grandmother
" Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother. "
Always
Baby
Mother
" Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since. "
Love
Moment
Daily
" I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else. "
Somewhere
Always
Find
" I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about. "
Big
I Am
Story
" I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code. "
I Am
Service
Work
" I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s. "
Toy
Collection
College
" I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes. "
High School
Bad
Clothes
" I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own. "
Own
California
Death
" I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley. "
Love Me
Love
Me
" I don't write about Google except to insult the company. "
Write
Company
Google
" I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age. "
Energy
Year
Age
" I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better. "
You
Risk
Know
" I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak? "
Geek
Am
Freak
" I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim. "
Persistence
Love
Consistency
" I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web. "
Money
Place
Journalism
" In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings. "
Gift
Rejection
Nobody
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