• Still reeling from the seasonal allergy, combined with a bit of jet lag and working all day on this project. Combined, not a great day. #
• I’m making my 5th cup of tea today. Pass the honey please. #
• Setting up a lens on Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/djculture #
• Squidoo’s iTunes search is not very good…couldn’t find Moby’s new album, not could I find Madonna’s. Amazon feed is better. #
• Another day of allergy attacks…I thought the rain would mute the pollen. It has a bit, but not enough for a nice long break. #
• My girlfriend was exposed to mold and is now adversely affected by chemicals…so I got the car detailed this weekend…oops! Sorry babe. #
• My girlfriend is also adversely affected by Twitter. She loathes this thing, but somehow she’s begun to check up on my Tweets…hmmm? #
• When mags or list builders join Twitter and just post links to stories, I’m not interested in following you, if offers nothing to the party #
• I could spend all day just managing my social networks…can I get paid for this? Have to figure out how to monetize my social life. #
• Former Razorish founder and entrepreneur Jeff Dachis partners with Austin Ventures in a $50 Million venture - http://tinyurl.com/3kupoa #
• If you are looking for a venue for a party for Web 2.0 Expo NYC in September, let me know. I can book the venue and DJs for the event. #
• @ccindy I saw you’re looking for a DJ for a launch party #
• @emilychang thanks for posting that link, that’s really cool…I’m checking it out now, searching the term "dj"…very very cool #
• @ccindy I don’t have any specific at the moment, but D.C. is a train ride away. When you say "indy dance" what do you mean? #
• Applied for blogger press credentials for the Virgin Mobile Fest in August: http://www.virginmobilefestival.com/media/ #
• @ccindy I see…yeah, that’s not my speed…no worries…in the meantime download my podcast at http://www.netmix.com/category/podcasts #

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Austin Ventures, the VC and private equity firm, has launched its eighth mini-rollup fund in the last five years, and this is an intriguing one: it is putting $50 million into a vehicle led by former CEO of Razorfish, Jeff Dachis.

Valleywag, a tech gossip blog, reports that Dachis will move to Austin, TX to head up the venture. Dachis former company, Razorfish, was a cutting edge digital design studio building web sites for corporate clients in the Web 1.0 era. He founded Bond Art + Science, another high end digital shop in the years after he sold Razorfish.

In the 90’s, he had also bankrolled RSub, a network of web sites using the latest Flash technologies to publish artsy content from subculture publishers, which was loosely attached to the Razorfish organization. The site is still live, but I’m not sure from glancing at it if it’s been updated recently or if any of the publishers in the network are still live. It looks cool though!

I’m reporting on this, because at one point, I entertained the idea of selling Netmix to Dachis in 1998. At that point, I wasn’t sure if the money was right, so I held out. Maybe I was a bit overwhelmed by the Razorfish organization, but one of my chief concerns is that I would be selling into RSub and not the Razorfish entity, so I chose to back out of the deal and keep the company. In hindsight, aligning myself with Jeff probably wouldn’t have been a bad thing and we all make our decisions and have to live with them. I still have own the URL and I’m still independent, so maybe that’s a good thing. History will tell.

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