First I would like to acknowledge that I did not and do not intend to read the NY Times articles; I just don’t have the time

Second, I want to congratulate you, Brian, for your reasoned response to what appears to be a less than stellar article (let’s assume the writer/journalist didn’t have enough time to do a thorough job and still make deadlines).

Third, I want to ask a question: Is it really just now occurring to everyone that life is too short to expend every breath worrying about the next big story and who is going to get the scoop and/or credit? In any event, better late than never!

Finally, I would like to share a thought about the evolution of Internet technology (and PR for that matter), courtesy of Dr. Ian Malcolm: “I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it!”