Jai Singh has had one of the best seats from which to watch the theater that is Silicon Valley. He founded CNET News.com in 1996, and has presided over the technology news site since.
He saw CNET become part of that theater this summer, when Google pledged not to talk to the company for a year after an article on privacy divulged personal information about Google's CEO (that was found by using Google). But the two were on speaking terms ...