Is it just me or does every piece of junk mail in an invoice-size envelope suddenly have no return address? I usually just throw them away; but::: just to annoy the robot that sent this yellow envelope from the 52641 zip code (the only clue on the envelope about origin), I'll open the sucker up and give it some public shit.

And the wiener is.... is.... is... amazing: it doesn't say. The mystery persists through four pages of copy that starts...

Tuesday Morning

Dear Friend,

Arg... alright, where's the mailback envelope? That'll say. Okay... folded inside some other paper crap is an envelope to...

Jeez, I used to send them money. Sad.

Cluespotting

Indeed it was the ubiquitous Dr. Weinberger who spotted a very nice Cluetrain piece by Katharine Delahaye Paine of Delahaye Medialink. Katie is an old friend of The Movement. I first met her more than ten years ago, when I was getting ready to get out of the PR biz and she was getting ready to transform it. Her issues were effectiveness and accountability, along with related ones that the profession was none too eager to have examined, as I recall. Anyway, she's always done great work. Here she is on Cluetrain:

So what’s a communicator to do? The Cluetrain authors would have them stand aside and let the information flow. Attempts at control will be useless anyway, they say. And they’re probably right. But that doesn’t mean we can all go home.

The dude is everywhere

David Weinberger makes the front page of the Sun site. There's a chat thing on the 14th. Should be fun.

Configure it out for yourself

Greg Franklin recently leveraged BuzzPhraser to generate some kind of solicitous generica at his flyingchihuahuas weblog.

XML RuleZ!

Says here that XML has passed Java in demand for programming expertise.

The research is pulled together by Reg Charney, who edits ACC++ent, the newsletter of the Association of C and C++ Users. Reg is also a contibuting editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, plus the Patterns & Object Oriented Design section of the Web site.

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