The impact of this story amazes me, and reinforces one point rather well. I lived in San Francisco for 2+ years, and would tell the exact same story to anyone

The impact of this story amazes me, and reinforces one point rather well. I lived in San Francisco for 2+ years, and would tell the exact same story to anyone who would listen. Nobody ever bothered to listen. It took someone from Southern California to actually get the story out there, because the PR culture in Norcal is so busy sucking up to power that they neglect to ever look for anything resembling the truth. Silicon Valley would be much better off if Techcrunch, Mashable, PaidContent, and every other PR blog there went out of business tomorrow.