In a Carlyle Group kind of move, Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair - he of the great rhetoric even if he was Labor - has become a senior advisor on public policy to Khosla Ventures, the $1.1 billion green VC fund run by Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla. Blair's not merely decorative; he actually knows something about this stuff and is hopefully more honest about it than former US vice-president Al Gore, who's a partner at Kleiner Perkins. He and his consulting firm Tony Blair Associates are there to pull strings. Meanwhile, RealNetworks chairman Rob Glaser has joined Accel as a venture partner. He will focus on digital media, social media and mobile services.