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Friday, May 18, 2007
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 Friday, May 18, 2007
started 5/18/2007; 10:21:16 AM - last post 5/19/2007; 7:01:30 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, May 18, 2007 
5/18/2007; 2:21:16 PM (reads: 3942, responses: 4)
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Praise farming 
| | I can¹t believe this tool is real - and no, they¹re not paying me to say or write this. |
| | Is it perfect? No, it's alpha. Is it telling the world that Microsoft is getting back into "the game?" Hell yeah. This isn't a Microsoft project, I swear - it can¹t be. It simply can't be. If this is the kind of experience that Silverlight enables, color me sold. |
| | Hope it's not all in a silo. Can't tell yet. |
Thinking through identity, privacy and relationships
Get used to it
Quote du jour
| | Lauren Weinstein: Howard nicely crystallized the rapidly declining environment for freedom of speech when he reacted to this case by telling his Sirius audience, "If you want free speech, walk in a closet and talk to yourself." That would be Howard Stern. |
Heady times
| | Not quite speaking of which, I saw this video at MemriTV last November and it has haunted me ever since. It's an interview on Lebanon's LBC TV of Abdallah Al-Bishi, a top professional executioner in Saudi Arabia. It's a bloodless talking-head interview, through which I became amazed by the bureaucratic banality of Al-Bishi's job — as well as the apparently large number of people he has killed. Yes, I have beheaded many people who were my friends, but whoever commits an offense brings it on himself... On the personal level, I am very normal. I get up in the morning, pray the Al-Fajr prayer. My breakfast is prepared, and I eat it. Allah be praised. I wait for the police car to pick me up, and I go to work. It's all very normal. I finish the job, and go home. It's all very normal. |
| | Kuwait Times reports that 72 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year so far — almost double the rate from one year ago. |
Thanks, Long guy
| | And congrats to Chris and the Wired crew for winning the latest National Magazine Award for General Excellence in the 500,000 to 1,000,000 circulation category. |
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Stephen Lewis - Re: Friday, May 18, 2007
5/18/2007; 7:22:40 PM (reads: 858, responses: 1)
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Doc. Thanks for pointing out that "minority" is now an anachronism. Let the work RIP-- an exclusionist, condescending term that all "majorities" should consider putting to sleep. I will be posting about this on my two blogs following return from a two-week field-survey of the remaining architecture of past and presnt minorities in the former Yugoslavia. Steve (Bubkes.Org / HakPakSak.wordpress.com)
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Hal O'Brien - Is Cluetrain really a "business book"?
5/19/2007; 10:24:51 PM (reads: 836, responses: 1)
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Yes, I know that's where it gets shelved, but...
I see it more like a book about politics that uses business as a metaphor. Somewhat like "Field of Dreams" is about the relationships between fathers and sons that uses baseball as a metaphor.
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Doc Searls - Re: Is Cluetrain really a "business book"?
5/19/2007; 11:01:30 PM (reads: 971, responses: 0)
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We didn't write it for a category, but we did primarily address it to business folk who we thought were misunderstanding the Net.
I think it got classified s business because it had the subtitle "The End of Business As Usual". That would do it.
For what it's worth, it was on the BusinessWeek and NYTimes nonfiction bestseller lists. Amazon had it on business, nonfiction and sales & marketing lists.
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Doc Searls - Re: Friday, May 18, 2007
5/21/2007; 12:34:46 PM (reads: 963, responses: 0)
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Thanks, Steve. Looking forward to those posts.
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