Sunday, September 10, 2000

The continuing end of business as usual

Web Pointers Online has a nice on-line reviewof the original on-line Cluetrain site. Haven't seen one of those in a long time. It even includes a link to a piece I forgot I had written. Listen Up was an out-take, as I recall, from the the original 95 Theses. Or something.

Thank you. Our call is important to us. All our co-authors are busy with other readers. We will answer your call in the order it was received.

One Cluetrain non-signee wrote this to us today:

Sorry, guys, I couldn't wade through all of this pretentious, wordy, new-age drivel. Everyone knows the internet is just a free-fire zone full of posers and rumour-mongers, like the old West. If you want to hear the human voice, use a telephone.

What's a little drivel between friends?

But there was this:

I love the freedom of expression that e-mail allows, it brings back the art of the letter and the human fallibility of spelling errors. It facilitates writing as you feel, as you think - as you do when you talk with friends. Far from ridding us of humanity, interconnecting has given this back to us.