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Saturday, February 22, 2003
Vote hard 
| | ... which opened the bile valve on the sense of outrage shared by the first person plural in whose voice Cluetrain spoke — while perfectly characterizing the second person plural to whom Cluetrain was addressed. |
| | If we do the same for democracy, the redraft might go like this: |
| | We are not interest groups or polls or trends or parties. We are citizens and our votes exceed your cynicism. Deal with it. |
| | I'm sure RageBoy can improve that enormously. The original words and graphics were his. (May have been Dr. Weinberger's too... I forget... Hey, it was more than four years ago.) |
| | By the way, before I gave the morning keynote at the Desktop Linux Summit yesterday, Lindows.com Marketing VP John Bromhead (who was very helpful while I was busy losing things the night before) introduced me by waving around a highly marked up copy of a U.K. printing of The Cluetrain Manifesto, which he had bought a while back in Denmark, and quoted extensively from it. John said he considered his job "Chief Conversation Officer." The first person I met at the show was Michael Robertson, Lindows.com's founder and CEO. His first words were "Hey, I didn't know you were one of the Cluetrain guys!" One of the questions I got from the floor during Q&A atfer my talk was "Where do you guys think you were wrong?" |
| | Four years after we wrote the original Web site (and nearly as long after we wrote the book), I'm thinking that politics, democracy in particular (and regulation, too) is still remarkably free of influence by clues from citizens. Also that citizens still suck at clueing each other, blogs withstanding. |
| | I did think, back in '99, that "the end of business as usual" (our subtitle) would come sooner than the end for many other _____s as Usual. Education came to mind. Also politics and science. But politics is the big one. Why doesn't more come out of our outrage? |
| | Lot to think about there. |
| | Okay... now I really am off to LegoLand. |
Legoday
| | The kid and I are going to Legoland today. Expect light blogging. |
Don't vote. It only discourages them.
| | The latest from PDW brings up this thought: Democracy in the U.S. is the original reality TV. Which set of assholes do we vote off the TV in this round of primaries? |
| | In fact, reality TV shows such as Survivor are to some degree modeled on politics ("voting," for example). |
| | There's a sports element to both reality TV and democracy, but no sports team or league ever ran a government, curbed a citizen's freedom or put people in jail. Not directly anyway. |
Worse luck next time, probably
| | My wife felt the earthquake this morning in our hotel at 4-something, because my snoring was keeping her awake. I slept through it. |
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