Busy day "liveblogging" the Inc. 5000 conference here in D.C. Here's what's I posted today:

Three Things on Jim Collins' 'Stop Doing' List

Dell VP Bob Pearson Listens to 10,000 Online Conversations Everyday

Dell also announced its new Facebook community today: Social Media for Small Business.

Contrarian Effect Co-author Elizabeth Marshall on Listening Instead of Selling

More TK including video Q & As with Seth Godin, Tom Peters and Ari

While Michael Port was busy on stage this afternoon at the annual Inc. 5000 conference in Washington DC, his co-author Elizabeth Marshall took a few minutes to do a Q & A with me. Michael and Liz have just published The Contrarian Effect.

Q: Is it true that you and Michael considered titling the book The Costanza Effect? I'm a huge Seinfeld fan so that might have worked for me.

A: Yes, that's right. Michael initially thought of The Constanza

"We’ve finished chapter 1 and we’re just starting," Dell’s VP Bob Pearson told me, noting that 1.46 billion people are online today but only 1.6 million of them visit Dell’s site daily. VP BP, as he’s called, is in charge of listening to the 10,000 conversations about Dell that take place every day online. With his team of 42, Dell enters about 100 of those conversations a day, Bob said. They do it via blogs as well as the newly-popular

Good to Great guru Jim Collins asks "Does everyone here have a To Do list?" Hundreds of Inc. 5000 entrepreneurs are assembled for his main stage presentation. All hands go up. Then he asks: "How many people in this room have a Stop Doing list?" Appreciative murmurs, but few hands.

He says he won't pose the existential question. "I will leave it up to you whether to put a Stop Doing on your To Do list."

An attendee then asks what's on his Stop

I just spotted Tim Ferriss in gray sweatshirt and jeans running up the stairs at the Inc. 5000 conference. Meantime, hundreds of suited entrepreneurs, whose companies are being honored, obediently rode the escalator next to him. He politely posed for a photo, despite jet lag from a speaking gig in Wales where he was fascinated to hear people “actually speaking Welsh.” No, he did not try to learn Welsh in two days. So… you choose the path to

35-year-old Google co-founder Sergey Brin started a blog named Too yesterday. It's on Blogger, of course. MInimalist design of white type on a black background (which I find hard to read). Too is a play on "two" and on the fact that the blog is about his life outside work. In his first post, titled LRRK2, he writes movingly about his mother's Parkinson's Disease, his wife's personal DNA analysis company, 23andme - and about a mutation of the