Here's the thing about losing your journalism job and starting your own internet/freelance business: Suddenly you work, eat, sleep, drink and even exercise in one tiny space. Laura Rich almost went crazy.

For the Twitterati, everything's up in the air! MC Hammer sailed above the rain, Laura Rich and Kourosh Karimkhany tweeted about their startup launches, and Michael Gartenberg saw Google's cloudy future:

A foretaste of Bloomberg's brave New York, last night, at the party for Laura Rich's book on Paul Allen. Apart from Sridhar Pappu and Keith Kelly, most of the hacks were San Francisco refugees, as was the host, which set the tone: no smoking inside, and a huddle of misfits in the 10
chill on the fire escape. A book party so smoke-free even Michael Bloomberg would have felt comfortable.

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