And he started this week with a splash: in his third post, he offered a harsh (for him) rebuttal of the spreading notion that there is a new Internet bubble forming, that Silicon Valley is overexuberant about "Web 2.0," and that soon it will all come crashing down (blog.pmarca.com).
I don't really care what Emil Michael may have carelessly said at a dinner party, except inasmuch as it reinforces the spreading notion that Uber is a company run by narcissistic sociopaths.
Magazines such as Popular Electronics and Radio Electronics helped spread the notion of a personal computer.
And you have helped to spread the notion that greening America through investments in energy efficiency and clean technology might actually help revive the economy.
"My bottom line is: the best way to spread the notion of peace and democracy is by letting the Cuban people talk to Americans," Mrs. Whitt said.
But Catalan nationalists began to spread the notion that toreo was an imposition on Catalonia by Franco's fascist regime, which promoted it, like flamenco, as a patriotic symbol.
By appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone in July 1973, Edwin Countrymann" Lothan, who has died of cancer aged 70, helped spread the notion of Rastafarianism, of which he himself appeared to be the personification, to a wider world.
A Beijing judge found that two men, Liu Yunfang and Wang Jindong, both from the central province of Henan, had spread the notion that Falun Gong members could achieve "nirvana through self-immolation".
Some juice fanatics like to spread the notion that cold-pressing is much better than using a faster centrifugal machine because the produce is not "cooked" by heated-up rotary blades.
The parlements, frequent critics of arbitrary rule, spread the notion that subjects' rights were protected by a fixed, if ill-defined, constitution that could not be altered without the consent of their representatives.
This view of anti-Americanism as originating from below, as embedded in the psychology of the masses, is consistent with the opinions of many Russian political scientists, sociologists, journalists and politicians, who spread the notion that most Russians dislike and object to democracy.
