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 Saturday, May 15, 2004
started 5/16/2004; 8:32:46 PM - last post 5/16/2004; 8:32:46 PM
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Doc Searls - Saturday, May 15, 2004 
5/17/2004; 12:32:46 AM (reads: 2530, responses: 0)
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| | Marc Canter: At the end of the day - it's not just the code that makes up the standard, but the people who use it. |
| | This is consistent with Things really go boom when Demand gets the power to Supply. That's my current corollary to Cluetrain. |
Coleman Rulez
| | Just got back from a campout where we put up, for the first time, the gigantic Coleman tent we got at Costco a few weeks ago. It was around a hundred bucks, and promo poop on the box said it measured 16x12 or something. It also had two rooms and plenty of space to stand up and walk around in, which I like. It also came with a bag that featured wheels and a handle, which was extremely cool by me. Knowing that Costco would discontinue carrying it in a few days (which they do with everything but rotisserie chicken and macadamia nuts), I did the impulsive thing, and bought it. |
| | Anyway, it worked out fine. The thing is gigantic, though not hard to put up. The old Coleman air mattress failed, though. Still, it served for several years. That's not too bad. |
| | While breaking the camp down and packing everything up, however, I discovered two rules. |
| | The first one I'll call The Coleman Package Volume Ratio, or CPVR. It's the ratio between the volume of the factory-packed camping product and the volume of the unpacked and used product that will probably never fit back in the original box or bag. This applies especially to tents, air mattresses and sleeping bags. Generally your CPVR runs 1.5-to-1 or 2.0-to-1. |
| | The second I'll call The Coleman Product Information Ratio, or CPIR. This is the ratio between the information on the box and the information that comes with the product inside the box (and that, unlike the box, you won't need to throw away). In the case of the tent, it was good that the setup instructions were sewn into the packing bag. Unfortunately, this was the only information about the tent itself. All the really interesting stuff — about features, construction materials and guarantees — was on the box we're tossing because there's no way the tent will ever fit back into it (owing to a high CPVR). I'd sat the CPIR for this tent was about 4-to-1. |
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