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Friday, May 20, 2005
Post and counterpost 
| | This essay appears as a post here in html because Doc Searls wanted to be able to search it. |
| | The secret is to give up control over the message, and let the users do the talking. |
| | A deeper secret is not to have a "message" at all. As we almost said in Cluetrain, There's no market for them. |
Last blog and testament
| | Anyway today has been weird, at 3 some guy ringed the bell. I went down and recognized it was my sister's former boyfriend. He told me he wants to get his fishing poles back. I told him to wait downstair while I get them for him. While I was searching them, he is already in the house. He is still here right now, smoking, walking all around the house with his shoes on which btw I just washed the floor 2 days ago! Hopefully he will leave soon... |
| | This, among many other reports, says the unwelcome intruder killed both the blogger and his sister. Thanks to the blog, the intruder is in custody and charged with two counts of Murder One. |
Read on
| | The Culture of Connectivity and Immediacy is a long, thoughtful and informative piece by Dean Landsman, at The Media Center of the American Press Institute. Basic point: The culture is catching up to the technology, but the technology is leading the culture. And the culture is adapting to immediacy. That's not a quote from the piece. It's what Dean just said on the phone, and I wanted to write it down. |
| | Interesting facts about Dean: he has worked deeply in both broadcasting and the cell phone business, and is remarkably insightful about both. Plus lots more. |
| | I remember thinking, when Dean's posts elevated Compuserve's Broadcast Professionals Forum (a couple thousand years ago), that it was such a waste to see all this good writing scroll to oblivion after several days. None of that stuff was archived by Compuserve. The easiest way to archive it yourself was to print it. I have looseleaf binders somewhere filled with good stuff folks wrote on forums that flushed their "content" after a few days. |
| | Now here he is, pouring his wine into bottles instead of down the drain. Nice. |
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