You're not really sending the message to anyone specific, so everyone assumes someone else will respond. Twittering an urgent request in the hopes that someone will just happen to read it is sort of like expecting your personal assistant to just guess what you want, and do it. Oh, wait: Sarah Lacy does have a personal assistant. Why not just ask her to drive down from San Francisco with a charger? That seems easier.

Fellow Tech Ticker talker Henry Blodget has steered his own Silicon Alley Insider website away from New York's Silicon Alley. Lacy seems to be taking it personally: "Judging from these eye-popping numbers, few of you aren't watching Tech Ticker. I'm glad I wasn't missed during my month on tour. Sniff."

(Photo by Randy Stewart)

The fact that they're at the table — regardless of what they were telling themselves got them to the table — it's much more likely that they say "enough with the four foot high stack of paper outlining the details of the deal. Just merge."

• 0:30: VCs need to better set founders' expectations. And vice versa, too.
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• 1:27: Don't spend.
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• 2:15: Don't respond to a bad quarter by doubling-down on engineering. Prune your management team.
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• 2:55: If you take VC, you have to play by their rules.
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• 3:29: Do you want to be rich or do you want to be king?
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• 5:31: Fiduciary duty is the board's concern (not the founder). In other words, they have to look out for all the shareholders.
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• 6:08: VCs make the most money when the founder goes all the way. The suit just wants money.

Johnstone, who fancies himself quite the lensman, has somehow become Yahoo's house photographer. He's been posting his corporate work, without authorization, to his personal Flickr stream.

In his self-appointed role, Johnstone, unbelievably, managed to take a publicity shot of Yahoo TechTicker star Sarah Lacy that made the photogenic valley fox look bad. The online-video show's producer, who never wanted to go with Johnstone in the first place, had the photos reshot — and was furious to hear that Johnstone had published the unapproved photos on Flickr. Johnstone took them down after a late-night call Friday — which was the first he heard, we understand, that his original photos hadn't made the cut. He's being replaced by a real photographer. If only more of the amateurs at Yahoos were meeting his fate.

(Photo by jeremyjohnstone)

*In the sense of "persuading, especially with flattery," you dirty birds. What did you think I meant by "canoodling"?