Saturday, February 22, 2003

Vote hard. The Happy Tutor has updated The Cluetrain Manifesto for the best possible political purposes. It's just missing an update to this item... "Deal with it" ... which opened the bile valve on the sense of outrage shared by the first person plural in whose voice Cluetrain spoke [~] as well as the second person plural to whom Cluetrain was addressed. If we do the same for democracy, the redraft might go like this: We are not interest groups or polls or trends or parties. We are citizens and our votes exceed your cynicism. Deal with it. I'm sure RageBoy can improve that enormously. The original words and graphics were his. (May have been Dr. Weinberger's too... I forget... Hey, it was more than four years ago.) Okay... now I really am off to LegoLand. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 6:46:40 PM    comment []

For those of you starting new conferences (Alan Meckler, are you paying attention?) there's a really cool new weblog in town: Doug Fox. He founded the "EventWeb newsletter" which is still the best place to keep up on the event planning industry. Today he is talking about cool interactive name badges. I wonder if they can be made cost-effective enough to get widespread adoption. I'd love to see these at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 11:54:54 AM    comment []

On the heels of McSweeney's "Library Science Jargon That Sounds Dirty" comes a list of pick-up ... [Memepool] 11:36:06 AM    comment []

A new twist on "fly the friendly skies" [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 11:35:12 AM    comment []