When it comes to electronic rights for out-of-print titles, whose side are you on? Microsoft, Yahoo and the the nation's top copyright official--or, Google, libraries, tech groups and various activists. Should Google win the monopoly on e-production rights, or should we heed the warnings of the U.S. Copyright Chief, Marybeth Peters, who worries that Google's win would undermine Congress' ability to govern copyrights, and spell disaster for books published overseas.

It's odd, to me, however, that Microsoft would be crying foul when it comes to monopolies. Just saying...

I haven't seen my daughter in six weeks. She's living the dream--taking a post-college trek through Europe with her backpack and an open mind. I'm thrilled for her, and yet.

As a mother of three (and stepmother of two), I always keep one eye open and one ear available for the middle-of-the-night phone call. The dreaded emergency. But I delight in the daylight hours, where I've been able to stalk my child via various web-based interfaces.

Charlie Rose in conversation with Marc Andreessen, co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. Best known as co-author of Mosaic, and founder of Netscape. He is on the Board of Directors of Facebook and eBay.

Monday morning last, I stumbled across my lawn in the usual fashion--briefcase, purse, gym bag and sloshing coffee--and lo and behold, my car had become a canvas for a knife-wielding punk. "Malicious mischief" my insurance claim would later call it. At that moment, I had other words for it. Both doors had been deeply marred with four-letter words, and one side offered the sentiment, "I love war." The rear of the car had been sliced through the middle in one long stroke. Ten years in this house and never had anything like this happened.

After filing a police report, initiating an insurance claim, getting a body shop to detail the two thousand plus dollars of repair required, my rage had spilled over into sadness. My sweet husband had affixed copy paper over the offending words, and then spent the day hunting up temporary remedies to lessen the blight. To no avail though, the cuts were deep.

Laura suggested that maybe this was the time for car magnets, and I had been pondering the idea as well. Why not. After all, Honda Elements like mine are often seeing zooming about town with signage of some sort. I e-mailed a guy I'd met at a networking event not long ago, and, voila, in less than 48 hours my lemons became, well, if not lemonade, at least seltzer with lemon squeezed in. My car now sports band-aids for the cause!

I still would like to get my hands on the punk, though.

When I was a little girl imagining what I wanted to "be" when I grew up, the words "strategic communicator!" never once appeared in my daydreams. That just goes to show that we live in a world where jobs, careers, identities and entrepreneurial ventures are evolving at humming bird-flickering speeds.

One of the main reasons we got into the business of "strategic communications" is that we believe that the old carpenter adage, "measure twice, cut once" is also crucial to the field of marketing and communications. My co-founder-in-crime, Laura McCulloch, likes to say, "Our culture is running as fast as it can to stay five steps behind!" The pressure to micro-blog your existence before it changes has superseded conscious, well-thought out business strategy, and we'd like to address that. We may twitter in bursts of 10Mbps, but our important business decisions should be made at human speed. In other words, when it comes to identity creation, we believe in developing carefully, launching once.

In service to our claim, welcome to BridgePoint Creative--the website! Though we've been in business for several years, we've taken our time developing our brand. Client-by-client we've built bridges across the country, up and down the West Coast, and over the river and through the woods. We're grateful that, at long last we're able to share our world with the larger world. We'd love to hear what you think.