Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Buy an SUV. Do your part.
Seems 2005 is only tied with 1998 as the hottest year on record.
So there's still time to go for the record in 2006.
In to lunch
Britt Blaser will be talking at a Berkman luncheon today here in Cambridge. I'll be there. So will an IRC and a webcast. Some specifics:
Britt will preview what the Dean campaign might have used if it had started three years later, in the age of Web 2.0...
For more background on today's presentation, and the "Dean Done Right" project, please see Britt's playlist of links for further reading.
Some quotes on Britt's talk (blogging this live):
"smart = busy = distracted = stupid"
"all politics is yokels"
"just as deep linking is important to the web, deep asking is important to organization"
Steven Clift on the IRC points to what he's doing here.
Podslam is up. Great stuff.
Agreeing to disagree. Or just disagreeing.
It seems like Doc is tired of the "conversation," and wants to move on.
That's fine, I suppose. It takes two people to have a conversation, only one to rant. I rant well.
Doc may move on, but the rest of us are all stuck with "markets are conversations," which has given permission to a generation of marketers to intrude even more into whatever remaining social space there was to deliver their commercial pitches. The Cluetrain Manifesto made that legitimate.
I've asked, unrhetorically I might add, what do marketers respect? I've seen no answer. I suspect, I fear, the answer is nothing, though no marketer wishes to admit it. For any marketer to identify a boundary, a limit, would cede to their competitors an advantage, and markets are more about competition than they are about conversation.
It's true. I am tired of defending stuff ("markets are conversations", Cluetrain) that continues to piss Dave off, no matter what I say about it.
I'll just add that Cluetrain wasn't about, or for, marketing. It was as much a rant against marketing as anything Dave is writing today. I think both Dave and I would like to make some headway here, but I don't see it happening.
Maybe Dave should talk to Hubert Burda.