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August 10, 2001
Wanna date? 
| | Craig has moved from Dates to Subjects as a way of organizing his site, and the RSS feeds and such that flow from it. His discuss page kinda shows what people are reading, too. Interesting. |
| | I'm still on a date basis. But I'm mulling a subject orientation. Whaddaya think? |
Looking for a nice little office with a T1 in Santa Barbara?
| | Let me know. I'm moving again, for what I hope will be longer than another few months. The landlord has been a terrific pal, and I want to help him refill the space if I can. |
Discredit where due
| | I'm giving a talk (that's a speech without much of an audience) later today that is increasingly informed by speculation about some kind of connection between the January 2000 publication of Cluetrain, the book and the stock market crash that coincidentally ensued. |
| | This morning Chris Locke called, and in the midst of conversation about his upcoming book he shared a bit of what he's been hearing about this possible connection, including a Fishrush piece that even provides graphs of a sort. |
| | (And the book is still selling pretty darn well, as it continues to happen.) |
| | Anyway, the thinking goes like this: |
| | a) The dot-com bubble was a well-clothed (in the parlance of the time, branded) fantasy that was inflated entirely by its admirers' gas. |
| | b) Blame for letting out the gas goes to those who did the most to pull down the fantasy emperor's pants. |
| | c) That might be Cluetrain. Yeah, others too, but Cluetrain fersure. |
| | Well, we started mocking the emperor back when the Cluetrain site went up in March of '99. Then we came out with the book in the following January. The rest was, as the philosophers say, Hindenbergian. (Audio here.) |
The chug goes on
| | I subscribe to Slate but it turns out Dr. Weinberger actually reads it. That, presumably, is how he spotted this item, which seems unsure about Cluetrain's tense (was? is? oy.). The piece seems to nominate American Express for a TDCRC Iceberg Award, the mantle of which has rested since May on its last recipient. |
Erratadata:
| | Turns out NoLogo did run a post on the Financial Times piece. Just not mine. Which is totally cool. In hearing about it I did discover a lot more about the Slashcode the site uses. We're seeing a lot more of these, as we see on the Slashdot Like Automated Storytelling Homepage (and on the excellent UseTheSource). I feel a question coming: is slashcode pro forma for this kind of stuff yet? |
(Score: 0, Ripped from elsewhere)
| | So yesterday, after I found this funny Slashdot item and pointed to it under a headline that said "Let's mod that up to 6," the same item got moderated up to a 4 after the moderator — or somebody who says he was the moderator, and hell, I'll take his word for it — spotted my little bloglet. |
| | What the hell. It's still funny. |
Graciousness is as graciousness does
| | And Paul Ferris is a mighty gracious guy. |
| | Speaking of which, Kelly begs to differ on the astroturfing matter. Maybe I'm just an old fart, but I still think it's wrong. |
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