why join the blogosphere?

i come from a family of 3 brothers where our weekend dinner conversations would involve discussing (euphemism for argue and yell) everything from politics (heavy on the politics), sports, and business.  well, the blogosphere is nothing more then a big dinner conversation.  while there is plenty of noise to be sure, the dinner conversation is usually an exciting one, so i thought what the heck i used to enjoy these conversations so why not join this virtual conversation. 

what will this blog cover?

• some of my thoughts on wide-ranging topics from:
•  the role of a product manager (lots to say on this one)
• media + technology (already lots of people commenting on this, but every so often i will add my thoughts)
• clean technology (this is where the action will be over the next 10 yrs.)some of my thoughts on the political landscape (try to keep this to a minimum as i have no interest in becoming part of this red vs. blue war)
• cycling, surfing, and these teams (bears, bulls, fightin illini, northwestern wildcats, and 49ers)
• updated (1/30/2007): commercial aerospace industry will be another topic.  commercial aviation was the key enabler of globalization and IMHO was the greatest and most important innovation of the 20th century.

who am i?

• name: ariel seidman
• married: yes, to ilana
• live in: bay area
• currently work @ yahoo and previous to that siebel systems

cheers,

 -ariel