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Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Gnomeward bound 
| | Our house guests are none other than Dean and his sweetie Susan. Just finished giving them the town tour. Spectacular day. We went up on Camino Cielo (more or less the same tour as this guy took here, but in a rented Chevy rather than a way-cool bike). Up n the ridge were on top of Cloud Nine, Ten and Eleven. Literally. Blue sky above and puffy white at our feet. Nice. |
| | Now I hafta pack for Gnomedex. I leave at 4am and I'm not close to ready. But first we're headed out to dinner. |
| | Meanwhile, I gotta dig how fast and far the People Vs. Hollywood political conversation is spreading. Dave's blog today makes a nice jumping off point, but it fans out real fast from there. Like a fire. Which is exactly the idea. |
A call to traction
| | Sheila sums up a bunch of the political stuff we've been talking about, and makes some very sensible suggestions for winning non-techie hearts and minds. |
Woi-flying up over down under
Multiplying conversational exponents
| | The implementation stage of Cluetrain indeed. Gives me chills. I love it. |
| | Networked markets get smarter faster than most companies Cluetrain said. |
| | Same goes for democracies and their governments. |
| | What have you done? Larry asked the crowd at OSCon. I wanted to stand up and yell, "Hey! We created GeekPAC and AOTC!" But I knew both efforts weren't close to prime time. |
| | But prime time is now to November. |
| | Rock on, everybody. Power from the people. |
Nativity
| | Just remembered something else that came up in the phone conversation yesterday with Dave Winer: it's time to understand software on its own terms, whatever they are. |
| | Is it like publishing? Yes, in some ways. Like music? Yes again, but only in some ways. Same goes for writing, manufacturing, and every other metaphor we can use. |
| | But if software matters as much as the rest of those things, it needs to be understood anew on its own terms. |
| | Once we get that worked out, then we can say exactly how copyright (for example) ought to apply. |
| | Anyway, I just wanted to write that down somewhere before I forgot it. |
| | [Later...] And maybe Larry Staton Jr. would rather I had forgotten it. He makes an excellent point. You'll find that and many other interesting conversational items by hitting the Discussions link over there on the left. The whole sectoin been unusually active lately. |
Ism jism
| | Dan Gillmor: Customerism. Great concept. Except get this... it's Dave Sifry's meme-sized summary of Dan's post. I still think it works. Soon as he said it on the phone a minute ago, I knew what he meant. |
| | It's like the first time I said "what we call consumerism is really producerism." People got it. Not that they used it or anything, but at least they got it. |
| | But hey: maybe now it's time to start using all those new isms. Get carried away. |
Gotta have it, cont'd
Instant hack
There are responses to this message:Re: A Copyright Software Quesiotn, Fred Grott, 8/21/02; 5:34:19 PM Re: Wednesday, August 21, 2002, Timothy Phillips, 8/21/02; 9:03:39 AM Re: Wednesday, August 21, 2002, Larry Staton Jr, 8/21/02; 6:42:07 AM
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