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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
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 Wednesday, April 13, 2005
started 4/15/2005; 1:26:29 PM - last post 4/15/2005; 2:19:15 PM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, April 13, 2005 
4/15/2005; 5:26:29 PM (reads: 4396, responses: 1)
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Long and short 
| | Late next week I head for Les Blogs in Paris, where I have a fantasy about Cluetrain meeting Hughtrain, somehow. Be nice to work some Gluetrain in too. It'll be cool to meet Hugh MacLeod, after talking (and even collaborating) with him over the last year. This will be my first trip to France in almost ten years, which is way too long. I did a lot of work there in the '94-'96 frame, and still miss it. Alas, I'll only be there for the weekend and Monday. |
| | The next Eurotrip after that will be reboot 7.0, in Copenhagen, to which I've never been. I may be able to stretch that one out. I'd love to cross over to Sweden, home to half my ancestors, at some point. Never been there, either. |
Flattenization
| | Remember when Steve Martin attempted to replace getting high with getting small? Well, Tom Friedman now wants us all to get flat. Or the book, anyway. He says things are pretty flat already, actually. And he's right. (Don't you feel flatter already?) |
| | Anyway, I've been thinking and writing about the whole thing way too much already, though you haven't seen any of that yet. |
We interrupt your tax panic to bring you this special gloat
| | We got ours in yesterday. |
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Mike Warot - Taxes for access... the American Way
4/15/2005; 6:19:15 PM (reads: 580, responses: 0)
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I think we should take the buying Congress and Presidency to the logical conclusion... paid access. It would be quite simple.
For every dollar a person or corporation paid in taxes, you get a lottery ticket for an hour of your representatives time. If you win, you can use your hour in any way you see fit. The hour would be exclusive to the winning ticket holder.
All of the time of the elected representative would be scheduled in this manner, with exceptions only for private and governmental use.
A strict log of all correspondence, email, phone calls, and meetings would be required to be made public exactly 1 year later.
This draconian, reactionist approach would rapidly fix many problems with the system.
--Mike--
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