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| Friday, November 9, 2001 |
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Memanany 
| | One of the many things I hate about that word is that underlying it is the assertion that all thought is propaganda. |
| | I look at it this way. Memes are a hip word for ideas. There's an academic difference, but it's academic. |
| | Some ideas spread like wildfire. Others sit there like an ignot. That some spread easily doesn't make them propaganda. They're just interesting. Easy to talk about. Stuff like that. And just because some sit there doesn't mean they're bad or wrong. Just that they don't invite a lot of interest. Weblogs are a combustible idea. Double entry bookkeeping isn't. That's why we're talking about blogs. |
| | By the way, that last Weblogs link — a search at Google — brings up an ad ("sponsored link") for Userland Software. Q to U: are they working? Just curious. |
Round Two
| | To Doc and Chris, markets are more than conversations. There are also products in markets. This is my pushback for Chris for the day. (But the day is still young.) |
| | Now Chris is shooting off his fingers auf Deutch. Sort of. That's after he showed off his French yesterday. What an outil. (C'mon JY! Help me out here! How do you say "dick" au Français?) |
| | When I used to work in France, I often said, Pardon moi pour vous deranger... je ne compreds pas le Français. Or worse. But I took three years of German in High School (one of them twice, but I gave them all back when I was done), so I am prepared to agree with Mark Twain when he says haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein. So there. |
| | Meanwhile, here's Mike Sanders, exposing this actual sort-of conversation that's been going on among a group of bloggers about how blogs (not even markets, just our damn blogs) may or may not be conversational; and what he says is, like, good stuff, and worse: challenging. |
| | So here I am, surrounded by ring of gauntlets. On a Friday. On deadline. Which is worse than drugs, because a deadline doesn't wear off — it drags on. Talk about monkeys on your back: try carrying around a managing editor. |
| | So. Two things. First, okay, markets are not conversations. Neither are they demographics, categories, eyeballs, feet, reservoirs of demand or any of the other things we call markets. BFD. It's a fucking metaphor, people. Metaphors are never the same thing as what they describe. That's the irony that makes metaphors not only metaphors but so damn useful we can't help using them. The MaC metaphor worked as (uh oh) a meme. It's still working, or we wouldn't be talking about it (are we really talking? is this really a conversation? does it fucking matter?). |
| | As it happens, I've moved on from the MaC meme to one I got from third-worlders who read the book and think even Cluetrain authors are a bit behind about what markets have been all along, which are relationships. For better and worse (look! we've got both! just like relatives!) that's what we're all about here in Bløglånd (and here's hoping there really is a Norse town by that name, just so we can make this whole thing more distracting than it is already). |
| | And, as it also happens, I gave a shipboard presentation about this stuff to a buncha geeks just two weeks ago yesterday. Here it is. Read it. Then guess what program I created it in. Clue: it wasn't PowerPoint. (Heh.) |
| | Now dammit, gentlemen, I've got a goddam OS X review to write. I can't be doing this. |
| | Or give me some OS X quotes. Make yourselves useful. |
Blog fight!
| | I love it when brilliant bloggers argue. Dave's explitives are links and RB talks trash in French. Sacre Bleu! |
Belaboring a good point
Diggin' Durand
| | I keep admiring the whole look & feel of Andre Durand's blog. The man has stye and taste. He's big on black shirts and clothes that fit. Kinda like Steve Jobs, without the edge. |
| | But Andre is a leading edge kinda guy. And a thinker, too. Here are three recent items: |
| | Nice stuff that reads even better than it looks, which is saying a lot. |
| | Bryan Bell designed Andre's blog, by the way. Mine, too. He rocks. |
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