I often wonder, and I do not mean to be overly critical, if you guys ever long to write about something truly meaningful?

You have produced some of the best news and advice about Tech anywhere, but it all seems to be focused on applications or popular “kiddie” developments that just happen to “look” like money in the bank these days, I do not fully understand?

Robert is throwing out numbers as if we were talking about buying a company like General Electric was back in the 50’s – or almost a certain success.

If any of you investors out there, or Google for that matter, want to fork over a quarter of a billion, Well, here is an alternative business plan.

Put the dough in escrow in my name and I will guarantee a startup that will make Twitter look like what is is; A modern day equivalent to the slinky compared to General Electric. Here is where some of the money will go to start -

A Japanese Rocket Scientist CTO – $1 million yr.

5 Top notch engineers – $2.5 mil yr

1 bimbo executive assistant for each $500,000 yr

Top notch PR firm – $600,000 yr

Rack of IBM Blue Genie/L servers $2 million

7,000 sq ft office building in Menlo Park $5 mil

Hire David Airey for graphics design $500,000

Hire James Earl Jones for voice overs $800,000

Hire Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for 3 mos as chat hosts for users – 4 hours per day $20 mil

Give $10 mil to Jimmy Wales to make Search Wikia what it could be – no strings

Engage College students with $40,000 creativity, marketing, design, music, art and computer science awards at major Universities $1 mil plus

Spend another $10 mil on direct targeted ads on Veoh, YouTube, TechCrunch (this one’s for you Mike) and Google of course

I still have something over $190 mil left, let me see who or what could I buy wit that? Ah, I know, perhaps engage the least engaged segment of the Internet community – children. I think with $190 mil I could probably get a meeting with Stephen Speilberg to talk about Dreamworks sponsoring something profound for kids. A kid’s search engine maybe, or a destination other than Digg for 14 year olds.

Can we please at least begin to think about what is important? I know, I sound a little childish, but then Twittering our lives away does dwarf any idealistic profundity I can possibly expound upon.

I so look forward to, and back on a little, the possibility we all talked about back when Web 2.0 was supposed to take us somewhere. Yet here at the most important tech blog in the world, we are giggling over what? Someone’s vested interest in nothing more than a novel idea – cool and fun – but novel none the less.

Please do something with all that you excellent people possess in the way of intillect, influence and resources.

Always,

Phil Butler

=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com