January 28, 2008
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When “bottom-up” means “pants down”
That headline just fell out of a conversation between Dr. Weinberger and myself as way of characterizing astroturf — fake grass-roots — campaigns. Continue reading
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Conversation convocation
I’ll be at There’s a New Conversation, in New York, on the evening afternoon of Feb 13. Subtitled, Cluetrain Manifesto – 10 years later. Numbers aren’t really ages, of course. While Cluetrain hit the webwaves in early ’99 and the book was written that summer (to come out in January of ’00, just in time… Continue reading
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It, and who else?
Bill Clinton: ‘Screw It, I’m Running For President’. Bonus link. Continue reading
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And at zero, the pay can be better
Andrew Sullivan on book writing vs. blogging: I have to say that producing a book – I have four under my belt if you count my dissertation – is a draining, soul-sapping catharsis. Part of the strain is working for a long time and not knowing if any of it will be worth it.… Continue reading
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And the linkwalls come tumbling down
Nice to learn via Virginia Postrel that The Atlantic‘s archives are now open and linkable, liberated from incarceration behind the paywalls that were fashionable at major magazines until too many of their writers also became bloggers (or already were), and the logic of openness began to prevail. (Or so my theory goes.) Note that the… Continue reading