Hah, at the top of TechMeme right now is a BusinessWeek article about who America’s CTO should be if Barack Obama gets to be President.

Um, Google “America’s CTO?” and you’ll find my article on the topic where I ask Larry Lessig about this (the video of Lessig is a must-watch on this topic).

TechCrunch gets into this too. I guess I’m not the only tech blogger doing politics lately.

In yesterday’s post several commenters said they were unsubscribing because all I do is talk about politics.

Oh, really?

To those who say that I only write about politics or think about politics, you are absolutely wrong.

You must read my FriendFeed comments, for instance. Overwhelmingly tech.

Or see the things I’ve “Liked” (er, shared) with you. Overwhelmingly tech.

Or see all the things I share or blog about. Overwhelmingly tech.

Or see all the videos we do at FastCompany.tv. Overwhelmingly tech.

Or see all my Google Shared items. Overwhelmingly tech.

Or see my event calendar. Overwhelmingly tech.

Only a very small percentage of my work has anything to do with politics.

Which makes me very happy at the unsubscribes. I’m hoping for a smart audience here, not one that throws insults based on bad data.

But if you think you’re ONLY going to get tech here, you’ll be very unhappy. You should unsubscribe now. Last time I checked this is still my +personal blog+ where I get to write about whatever I am interested in. Overwhelmingly that’ll be tech, but sometimes I’m interested in other things.

Have a good day!

DLA Piper (a large law firm that serves the tech industry) just released a survey they did of VCs and found some nasty trends:

• 66% of technology companies indicated they are reducing revenue forecasts
• Nearly 50% of VC firm respondents believe the current financial crisis is worse than the tech bubble crash of 2000
• More than half of respondents (55%) believe the stagnant IPO market will not begin to rebound until 2010 or later

There’s a lot of other interesting findings in the survey, I’ll try to get more. This afternoon I’m visiting Foundation Capital (they are funding cleantech companies, which DLA says is one of the bright spots) and will get their take on the economy.

Why do these surveys matter? They are human beings and if they think this financial crisis is worse than the tech bubble crash of 2000 they will be changing their behavior (IE, making it tougher for entrepreneurs to get funded).

In other news the market is up and leading indicators are positive for the first time in months.