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Monday, August 26, 2002
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 Monday, August 26, 2002
started 8/26/2002; 7:29:49 AM - last post 8/26/2002; 1:01:40 PM
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Doc Searls - Monday, August 26, 2002 
8/26/2002; 11:29:49 AM (reads: 7999, responses: 3)
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Never metablog it couldn't rank 
| | No time to write about it, but here are three links to get the chewing started: |
Wider fi
| | Thanks to Cory for the walk-through. Turns out it does have a browser interface, and all one needs to know is its default IP address and other stuff that would be very easy for Linksys to put in the manual for folks who don't want to go through he whole CD-install thing. Windows users included. |
| | Get it straight, mainstream print folks: warchalking's intent is to notify users of free community sites and other places whre they can get on the net with the consent of the bandwidth's owners. It's about bandwidth people are glad to share. Sure it's fun to go out and find places where companies have left their access open, but that's not the main idea, and never was. |
| | It should be obvious that warchaking is good for the Starbucks and T-mobiles of the world, too, because a warchalk can also tell users where there are for-pay access sites. I can't tell you how many Starbucks I've been to where the barristas behind the counter had no idea there was an access point on the premises. Hell, they should put warchalk decals in the windows, so customers would know. |
Blogging a conversation
| | I'm on the phone with Britt Blaser, talking about what matters and doesn't matter about copyright, source code and all that. We're co-looking at a couple of old pieces on the Web (here's one and here's the other), and ut of the blue Britt says this: |
| | What's valueable is your relationship with your customer, not whether you can lock up your code. |
| | We're talking about the music companies, actually. Not softrware, especially. Also about The Economy as an OS. Britt just said, What the record companies need to understand is that they're in the vinyl business, not the music business. Or, in the case of CDs, plastic. |
| | I want Britt to blog. That way I could point to mor of the kind of stuff he talks about on the phone. Its good shit. |
| | He says he will. Stay tuned. |
| | Coincidence?::: Both Britt and John Robb are former C-130 pilots. |
Caption if you can
| | Moxie, bloggeur extraordinaire and both subject and subjecteur of many fine photographic works, is looking for a caption. |
| | I don't have one yet, but the ad in the background of the shot calls to mind something a smart & sassy woman I know once said about men. |
| | Men just want to squirt, she said. |
| | Sounds like a good slogan to me. |
Bloggng in Reality
| | One rather heated conversation at Gnomedex was around blogging from within the corporate firewall. Is it possible to blog freely and still be Your Own Person and all that? |
| | The biggest problems are legal. We have free speech as individuals outside corporations, but not inside. The speech of corporations is highly regulated by the SEC, the FDA and other toothy bureaucracies. Corporations also make much bigger targets for lawsuits. Prudence alone makes corporate blogging (except entirely inside the firewall) an oxymoron. |
| | And now here's the exquisite irony: employees are going to blog anyway. The best policy for any company is to do right by their employees and trust that their employees will do right by the company. Good will makes good news. |
| | [Later...] John pushes back. My response: I meant it in the sense that blogs are personal journals. Think of "corporate journalism." Same thing. But blogs are much more than journals, of course. All contradictions apply. |
Burning Bush
| | The warblogging community used to be foursquare (or maybe 3.1416-square) behind President Bush in his "War on Terrorism." |
| | Some will disagree, but that illustrates my real point, which is about the profound independence of bloggers, and of blogging. Even the labeling conveniences of terms like "warblogger" are belied by the individuality of each blogger. |
| | They're all journalists, which are also not herding animals (even though PR people like to pretend they are). |
Close to home
| | John Robb reports that my congresswoman, Lois Capps, received $31.5k in payola from Hollywood. |
| | Not surpirsing. Santa Barbara is a cultural suburb of Hollywood. Lots of stars live here. Economically, technology is much bigger; but nobody is busy giving her money to protect tech's self-interests, I'm sure. |
| | I need to find out more about her. I'm still kinda new here. [Later...] Just got pointed here. By blogs we get educated. |
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Shawn Yeager - Re: Monday, August 26, 2002
8/26/2002; 1:32:25 PM (reads: 633, responses: 2)
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I think the question of "corporate blogging" is an important one. And while it may seem like splitting hairs, one could extend your question about being within the firewall to situations such as telecommuting, where the individual may be using their own net connection, but is on company "time." This in turn brings up the question of whether 8-5 is the limitation of company time. So while what I've painted is certainly a greyer area than inside or outside the firewall, I think it's one that more people grabble with, particularly as we see many webloggers go anonymous or pseudo-anonymous to avoid the potential wrath of their employer.
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chuqui - Re: Monday, August 26, 2002
8/26/2002; 4:57:55 PM (reads: 745, responses: 1)
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And now here's the exquisite irony: employees are going to blog anyway. The best policy for any company is to do right by their employees and trust that their employees will do right by the company. Good will makes good news.
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and one way the company can protect BOTH sides is, frankly, to make it clear up front "...and if you do these things, we will take you out behind the shed and do the 'old yeller' thing on out".
May seem harsh, but if people are going to do it anyway, at least set the ground rules, so nobody's surprised (and it saves on the whiney lawsuits).
Ozzie's stuff was wonderful. Recognizes reality, but understands there are limits. In my rather casual wandering through the blogs the last couple of weeks, I've seen two or three instances of folks who've been fired because the boss found the blog, upset because mom did, etc. As if magically the folks they're talking about won't hear about it? heh.
Since I tend to be fairly high profile in areas and sometimes get involved in discussions that involve my employer, I have to walk that tightrope. I've worked out where my management wants the limits to be, and I try to stay within them. but as I work to put up my blog, I'm going to be adapting Ozzie's stuff big-time. It's good, it works.
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chuqui - Re: Monday, August 26, 2002
8/26/2002; 5:01:40 PM (reads: 856, responses: 0)
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Ah, heck. I hate responding to myself, but just had another thought.
A "no blogging" policy won't work. Too many companies simply don't seem to understand that people do it anyway -- they just go underground. By setting a reasonable policy, you encourage folks to be open about it, which also encourages them to stay within policy. If a person is underground, they're a lot more likely ot say something against policy because they don't feel like they're going to be caught. And that's the wrong way to deal with this...
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