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| Saturday, March 11, 2000 |
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Cluetrain chugs up the charts: #15 at BestBookBuys; #26 (listed as #9 with an * in the March 12 business section listing for February) on the New York Times bestseller list; #4 on the Amazon.com business bestseller list.
Patent Death Pending: Cluetrain doesn't have a patent story. But, thanks to his job, one its authors does; and it's here. A sample:
It's easy to forget, but the Internet was not built for business. Neither was The Cluetrain Manifesto. We trust that Cluetrain, like the Internet, will do business a lot of good. But we didn't write it for business, and we did not want to help Business as Usual survive its terminal conditions. We wanted to urge its passing by talking to employees and customers about the stuff business forgot when it began to expedite production at all costs.
On Tuesday evening PC Forum will host a conversation about The Patent Issue among Dave Winer, Lawrence Lessig, Tim O'Reilly, Esther Dyson, Kevin Werbach, myself and probably more than a few others. If you're going to the show, please join in.
— Doc Searls
 Cluefest in D.C.: Cluetrain was the topic at Netpreneur 2000 in Washington D.C. this past Tuesday. Produced by the Morino Institute's Netpreneur.org and UUNET, it featured speeches by Chris Locke and David Weinberger, and a discussion moderated by Tom Petzinger (after giving quite a fine speech of his own). Those are the basics. Here's the had-ta-be-there, straight from RageBoy:
Leadbelly once said Washington DC was a bourgeois town, but that's not what we encountered there Tuesday night. The scene was unbelievable. Just before our talk, the hall was filled with blaring rock and roll and 1100 people batting three dozen beach balls back and forth around the auditorium. It was great. It was insane.
Yeah, he liked it. So did I, watching the thing live over the Net here in California. It was a gas. Top-drawer all the way.
Check it out. The whole thing is on RealVideo, right here.
— Doc Searls
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