Comments on: Giving it from both ends

By: PR Communications

PR Communications — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:41:16 +0000

Doc Is Sick, Let’s Talk About VRM…

Doc Searls, one of the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto, an important book that described the importance of the interconnected web to people and companies is ill with pancreatitis in hospital here in Massachusetts at a Harvard Teaching hospital. His…

By: Yarn

Yarn — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:23:50 +0000

i wish you best good luck Doc.

By: Maarten Lens-FitzGerald

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:30:27 +0000

Good luck Doc, just read yr latest tweets. sounds tough

By: Tom Lewis

Tom Lewis — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:32:47 +0000

You at least think about your health which is more than most people. Stay tough – and I’m jealous of your SB visit, loved the 6 years that I lived there from ‘87-’93

By: Lou Josephs

Lou Josephs — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:18:34 +0000

Had both of these tests about 5 years back and last summer had the endo re-done at the Mayo Clinic in MN. But they found something else at Mayo, that’s basically put me out of work and it’s something with no cure. It’s a brain disease called FTD, that means you’re brain is shrinking faster than would be normal. End result is I am on some meds that do work and also doing vitamins and supplements to enhance things.
FYI: Russert died doing a voiceover, can you imagine what that digital file sounds like….It’s the way every radio person I ever knew wanted to go in the air chair.

By: francine hardaway

francine hardaway — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:18:48 +0000

Wish I could see you at SuperNova, but I will be in Austin (travel). Last week I was in NYC (travel). Get the picture? I’m older than you, and I travel. It’s how you live your entire life that counts. You have to eat well, not smoke, sleep enough, and exercise every day. And you have to have done that for years.

Perhaps you can’t jump on a treadmill after flying from Europe and sleeping two hours as Russert tried to do. But you can certainly do the things you love. And should.

On the other hand, what’s good about living longer if there is no quality to your life. As Rose Kennedy always said about her late sons, “all they missed was the later days.”

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:39:47 +0000

Doc

1) wishing you well, as always
2) found that 60 seems to be the new 30
Did a few things around age 30 (ran a race team, won a championship – got it out of my system so I could raise a family)

As we know, we’re a few weeks apart
Seems that I’m busier than ever, not with the travel, but with new ventures, both profit and non-profit.

Even have my wife screening some offers, turning down board seats.

Part because of then net (much work done online) part as a bit of a rush to get some things done in the next 30yrs.
(doing some work on a 50yr transportation and land use plan, and some on timber – at least a 25-50 yr crop cycle)

Most are community related – I’ve decided I’m most comfortable working on projects that affect and relate to about a 100 mile radius.

Take care and keep up the good work(s)

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:37:32 +0000

Sheila, I noticed that about the diagnostic item. Also, my mother died after one of these types of procedures went wrong. She was 90 and had already lived a full life, but still.

This morning my stomach hurts like hell and I have nausea. Not good, but maybe not bad either. If I can take food and keep it down it will be a good sign.

By: Stephen Lewis

Stephen Lewis — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:26:19 +0000

“The failing of the body and the enrichment of the mind” … it is as if the soul moves upward. As to traveling: f you have the will and resilience to travel — and the inner youth and strength to enjoy it — both soul and body have long lives ahead of them! S

By: Nick Nichols

Nick Nichols — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:01:31 +0000

Wishing you a speedy and full recovery, Doc.