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| Friday, June 13, 2003 |
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Politics as Unusual 
| | Dean is wired. And unwired. Check the right column of his campaign blog. |
| | Remember "Mediagenic" and "Telegenic?" "Charismatic?" Maybe "Blogogenic" is next. Or "Charisblogic." |
The Brand Bubble
| | I just put two and two together and came up with the headline above. |
| | Tulip Fever is Steve MacLaughlin's way of looking at the insanely huge money being paid to would-be "brands" whose popularity will be evanescent at best. |
| | Junk to be busted is Mike's way of looking at the same arrogant yet pleading insanity that we get from so much "branding." |
| | Yet we're also sick of its gratuitous and wasteful excesses. The persistent spammage. (Do you think we'd have so much spam in our mailboxes if it weren't so easy for so many to emulate the bad manners that the advertising sytem has taught for the last 70 years?). And we continue to get it becaue there persists a massive inefficiency in the Advertising System. |
| | The Net will, inevitably, expose that inefficiency by working cheaply around it. Count on it. |
| | Meanwhile, read again what folks wrote more than three years ago, not long after the Cluetrain book came out. |
| | Mike and Steve aren't alone. Not by long shot. |
Out time
| | I'll be gone from this Saturday to the next, to be with family at a beach house in North Carolina. Connectivity prospects are pretty thin. The phones there are even hostile to dial-up, on the whole. (I remember one trip where I couldn't get better than 24kbps.) If anybody knows of any wi-fi hotspots in the Southport, NC area, lemme know. |
| | I've looked in all the wi-fi directories, and there's nothing. But every directory misses huge numbers of actual hot spots. So: I'm hopeful. Sort of. (Hmm... maybe these guys have some. Hope so.) |
Inblogging
Like herding gnats
| | I just registered this blog under the "Internet" category. Couldn't figger out how to do the same in iTown. |
| | Anyway, I'm glad to help, but I gotta wonder about categorizing the uncategorizable. Personalities and interests aren't always categorizable, nor do they always want to be. Quite the contrary, in fact. |
| | That said, why no Politics category? Maybe Government covers it. Is that where the warbloggers and peacebloggers would go? |
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