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So much of Web 2.0 is just a wrapper on some existing technology, and I hope we eventually focus on building really cool and neat features, rather than just re-coloring the coloring book that someone else created.

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Doc said:<QUOTE>We need to imagine A Better Way. Then make it happen.</QUOTE>

The radical (yet subtle) technology we need is to figure out a way to allow markup on the web. Real, honest markup, like you can do with a piece of existing text on paper. You can add notes, cross out, etc.

I know the standard responses all go like:

• HTML is a Markup language, dummy!
• Why would we want to allow graffitti?
• I need control of what I write!
• etc, etc...

HTML only allows inline markup of a document at the time of creation. It doesn't allow you to have multiple layers of markup, even at that time. Try to add a underline tag from the middle of one paragraph into the middle of the next.... it isn't legal HTML. Real markup allows post-creation marking up of a document... which is clearly outside of the realm of HTML

The idea of allowing someone else to alter the context, content, or commentary of a document might send shivers through those who really wish that HTML locked everything down like a PDF file. The possiblities for phishing and spam are incredible, but they need to be solved, and will be. It's a question of time scale, not results.

You might think this is bullshit... but if you dig deeper into the implications of the what I just wrote, I believe you'll find a blueprint for true revolution, and the exact tech that is required for VRM and real change on the web. (A mini-manifesto?)

--Mike--

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Inspired by Joe Andrieu's recent VRM post, I am about to launch a new feature, "Request for Bids (RFB)" where people can state their needs/wants and advertiser's can respond accordingly. When someone posts an RFB, others can join the bid, hopefully creating a mass that will be attractive to advertisers.

I hate to use the term "advertiser" because it sets up a dichotomy. We are all advertisers and consumers, but I have to use the coin of the realm to communicate.

I'm also working on a post that will be entitled "The tragedy of mindshare is the tragedy of the commons" and argue that the solution is the same: an enclosure movement wherein people take ownership of their mindshare.

It's point #1 of the My Mindshare 10-Point Declaration 1. My mindshare is mine. 2. My mindshare has real monetary value. 3. I have a right to sell, trade, or keep my mindshare as I choose. 4. Nobody is entitled to take my mindshare without my permission. 5. Unsolicited and intrusive advertising amounts to mindshare theft. 6. Mindshare theft is wrong. 7. I have a right to resist mindshare theft. 8. I demand media that does not deal in stolen mindshare. 9. I support media that respects my mindshare. 10. The world is better when individuals control their mindshare and their media.

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When men act like that, they are called trolls and generally ignored. We can and should learn to ignore feminists too, because just like trolls they will never be satisfied. Nothing you say or do will ever be "enough."

No, it's not worth discussing, because one participant simply will never be open to discussion. Her personal opinion is the only thing she sees, and forcing others to agree by any means is the only goal.

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Anyway, I'm also assuming you don't vote, since it was feminists who got you the vote.

And you don't own property, since it was feminists who fought for women's property rights.

You probably don't use contraceptives, because feminists have helped to keep access to these legal, and open.

I'm assuming you don't earn a wage, because it was feminists who helped women break into professions, and who continue to work to see we have equal access, and a fair wage.

If you have kids, I'm assuming you're not divorced, or if you are, you don't custody -- without the work of feminists, well, you wouldn't be allowed custody of kids.

Equal access to medicine, ability to drive, an equal voice in congress -- all of these are protected for you by feminists.

You benefit, daily, from the very women you disdain, whose sweat and blood brought you what you take for granted. Tell me, what does that make you?

Shelley

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However, there a few things we can all thank feminism for: Thanks to feminists, dangerous, violent women walk the streets, free to assault and kill. Just because they had a good story about being “victims.”

Thanks to feminists, those women will never get any treatment, or jail time, and the next generation of girls are growing up seeing violence as a way to address their problems.

Thanks to feminists, working women have no access to shelter from domestic violence. Nor do those women with older boys, or lesbian women, who ironically founded the shelter system.

Thanks to feminists, women who repeatedly find themselves in violent relationships can never find any kind of aid or solution to their problem. Feminists claim they don’t exist.

Thanks to feminists, male victims of interpersonal violence cannot get any help. Then when they are killed by their violent spouses, they are blamed for their own deaths.

Thanks to feminists, research into domestic violence has been halted for decades in favor of the party line.

Thanks to feminists, thousands of children every year suffer permanent psychological damage due to the brainwashing efforts of domestic violence programs.

Thanks to feminists, 30% of today’s children live in homes without fathers. Some of those fathers are in jail right now for their inability to pay child support judgments. So we now have debtor's prison reinstated.

Thanks to feminists, we have a society that incorrectly believes that divorce will solve all their problems, and marriage is nothing but a temporary contractual arrangement.

These are just a few things that come to mind right now. Next week I’m going to court as a representative of the family of a male victim, who was finally killed by his live-in girlfriend, after numerous attempts, and one attack that put him in hospital. She’s going to be sentenced, will maybe get a year, if that and then out she goes again. The only question here is who her next victim will be.

Funny thing, I used to be a feminist, and was in fact a charter subscriber to MS. Magazine. But I began to see how little logic or reason, and how much hate and self-interest motivated these girls. No, I fail to recognize any benefit from the manipulation and lies of feminism. All this makes me is an egalitarian and a realist.

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I'm sorry about your friend's death, and about the prospects regarding the woman who killed him. I also don't think blaming feminism, or reducing it to "manipulation and lies" helps.

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People often believe in feminism until one of their own become a casualty, and then that's when I hear from them. Too late, of course, to do anything but commiserate, and listen to their story.

We could prevent future murders if we'd stop buying the feminist party line and start recognizing that all men are NOT abusers; all women are NOT victims. But right now we value men very little, and it seems their lives are even less important than the political ideology of a handful of self-serving girls, who will go to any lengths to keep from taking responsibility for themselves.

Eventually, the truth will out. Feminism is nothing but manipulation and lies. I stand firm in my belief.

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