Saturday, January 24, 2004

Travel day

Flying back to California today. See you on the West Side.

Democracy vs. Crockracy

Across the room, my host Britt, blogging away. Amazing stuff about the punditocracy:

...it's interesting that so many of us feel we need to sound like the talking heads on TV...Nuance is reduced to serial certainty...There are two kinds of people who have no knowledge of what the outcome will be: people who are paid to be expert and people in their audience...

As jazz plays in the background, I ask Britt about his wellspring. I'm just channeling this shit, man, he says.

Yesterday afternoon at LinuxWorld, I gave a talk in the O'Reilly booth that was a bit of a dry run for my session at the Digital Democracy Teach-In coming up in a few weeks. Wanting to show blogs being used to maximal effect, I called Britt up from the audience to take the mike and the keyboard. He stood and delivered, telling the story of Deanspace's origins, among other things, with a nice picture of demogenesis right here on the couch where I'm sitting now.

Bonus link: Werther Kems on the Barbaric Yawp, which is now finally getting some serious traction as a label for Dr. Dean's galls-to-the-walls moment last Monday night. More video angles on The Dean Scream here. Thanks to Brian Dear for that last link.