I also fly in airplanes for work. A lot.

As for what you can do about it, you can find several good suggestions in Working Group 3′s Summary for Policymakers (pdf here). Again, the target audience is politicians, but with an election cycle coming up in the U.S., a well-placed question or letter could change the course of world affairs. You can also take steps around the house like improving energy efficiency (better insulation, etc.) and thinking carefully about the next vehicle you buy, but you probably already knew about that energy conservation stuff.

What I am not convinced about is the science behind the “causality”. Are we sure about what precisely is the reason for this unusual trend?

I am not so sure about the science behind the causality. This is not some politically motivated quibbling but a sane question a sane person should ask. What is that I can do personally that will at least stop the situation from becoming worse if not reverse it?

This is where things get shaky. Either we don’t have the answers or I may not have seen them!

This thread is pretty surreal – two threads in one! A dual-core processor would come in handy with this blog parallelism.

Couldn’t really disagree more with your fanboy emailer. I read your blog in the first place to get insight into what you’re thinking. Obviously, most of your mind share ( I would expect ) is focussed on your investments, therefore I’d expect to read about it on the blog. And your portfolio companies happen to be a very interesting sample across lots of sectors in the Internet right now — from feeds, to search, etc. I absolutely want to hear your take on new cool stuff they’re doing — why it’s important, etc. I know you’re not recycling back every little announcement, but ones you think are particularly relevant and insightful. Please please – keep it coming. You are an insider; you’re stuff is most valuable when you share the stuff you are behind the curtain with — that is always going to mean a lot of portfolio companies –

–Alan

After following your blog for less than a fortnight, I was beginning to think exactly the same thing as the e-mailer. That guy couldn’t have timed it better.

You may enjoy flying the flag for your ventures, and that’s great, I’m sure they deserve it. But why not offset the positives every so often by discussing ways of improving the businesses you invest in. Surely you’ve made at least one suggestion to a dev team under your wing – why not post the same suggestion through your blog too? You might just obtain some unique perspectives.

I’ll start you off…

I use Newsgator Online – in fact it’s perma-tabbed in FireFox. However, I recently tried the beta release of the new Ajaxified interface, and it’s completely broken. I couldn’t read a full feed without receiving a syntax error. So here’s a new mantra; a beta release of an RSS reader should, at the very least, enable a user to read an entire RSS feed. This is especially true if a fully functioning service is interrupted to ask the user if they want to try said beta release.

If it is a longer term shift, venture investments in environmental tech might do well. Sure would be nice if someone could solve the power storage problem, for instance.

Posts on any given topic will naturally ebb and flow based on what you’re thinking about during a period. If your portfolio companies are in a particularly active and innovative period, and you find that period interesting, I’d like to know about it. That’s part of why I subscribe; to follow what one VC finds interesting and engaging about his investments.

Don’t pare back posts of a certain type due to a non-existent editorial responsibility.