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started 7/6/2001; 8:51:30 AM - last post 7/6/2001; 11:26:56 AM
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Doc Searls - 
7/6/2001; 12:51:30 PM (reads: 3612, responses: 1)
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Now what weren't we saying? 
| | Peter Harbeson suggests inveighs against the anthropomorphizing of corporations, which can't really speak, which is why they sound like money on 'ludes. Check out the Cluetrain List for more on the matter, such as Chris Locke in a buncha posts. Start here. Or here. Not that the other posters are bad (they're mighty good); but Chris is on a roll (and in his most persuasive role) here. |
Hmm. How about Linux?
| | BuzzPhraser's alpha hacker, Charles Roth, writes in to observe that the word "Unix" is not in Microsoft's MS Word 2000 dictionary. |
Speaking of buzz
| | - The WSJ link requires a subscription
- The game starts with a Flash animation below which it says "If you cannot see the Flash movie above then please click here." I could see the movie, but a word balloon spoken by the game's cartoon host said "Please wait while I check to see if you have the software needed to play the game" (or something like that... it's gone now), then: "You need to download a new Flash player." (Isn't this computer brand new? Haven't we been able to see every damn Flash movie lately?)
- I clicked on the wrong button on the Flash download page and got one of those hyperannoying Bonzi Monkey promos. The button is very misleading: it's a banner that looks like an alert and says your computer might be able to download a lot faster (since I'm now on a 3mb line here at my new house, I'm tempted). Reality to Macromedia: You're a big time company. You make infrastructure. Lose the damm monkey ads.
- After I downloaded the Flash 5 Player installer (I already had Flash 5: I know that much)
- It seemed to install fine in Internet Explorer, but it crashes Netscape every time (Type 10 error, FWIW).
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Think of a blog as a tatoo you get to ink fresh every day
Somebody must have answered the buzzer
Where there's a way, there's a blog
| | Just got this one, from a new pal in Nederland; |
| | As an enthousiastic reader of your weblog(s), Cluetrain, and creator of my own weblog (www.punkey.com but it's all in dutch, so don't bother :-)), I know you're gonna love this: |
| | Ruthie, a weblogger, decided to pay for an ad-free blogspot.com weblog for somebody else. Why? Read this (from his log) |
| | About a year ago, I read an article in the Seattle Times about a day in the life of a Bellevue drive-through espresso stand. (Yes, we have those.) A woman made it to the front of the line and paid for the next person's espresso: down the whole road the rest of the day, each person paid for the next person. Any one of them could have realized that he had a free espresso and left, and everybody else would have paid the same amount -- but they didn't. All day, paying for the next person. I've always remembered this story as more than just a human interest tale -- it obviously meant more, and it wasn't just the amount, or the generosity -- it was the spirit of community, being part of something neat (if trivial) -- an anonymous (of sorts) support of the people who shared something in common. |
| | Right after that, 49 Forever decided to do the same thing and make The Way of Wayno (http://www.wayno.blogspot.com/ ) free of obtrusive advertising :-) |
| | So far the story goes. I hope Wayno continues the thread, so Blogspot will be totally ad free someday. Isn't it great what the Internet does to you? |
| | Anyway, I hope you like the story, give it some attention (Evan already did I think), so weblogs will get more and more positive response from the internet community and someday we, as people and writers, WILL rule the net again! :-) |
| | Keep up the good work, my regards to your Cluetrain buddies (it changed a helluvalot!) and maybe we'll speak again |
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Peter Harbeson - Re: Think of a blog as a tatoo you get to ink fresh every da
7/6/2001; 3:26:56 PM (reads: 901, responses: 0)
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Another weird idea buried in the original AP quote: "...developers create controversial Web sites offensive to corporations." (emphasis added). There can't be anything offensive to a corporation -- taking offense is something only people do.
The anthropomorphizing of corporations in the media is ubiquitous and misleading; it makes far too much of something that is just a legal device. Think about how the message changes if you read "...people working for a company..." instead of "corporations", or "people working at Microsoft" instead of Microsoft.
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