Or why we are loosing jobs. Yet the president refuses to change his economic plans even though they are not working. The President also had no idea how much dissent their actually is concerning the Iraq war.

(My apologies, but I'm running outta time: I tried to post this directly to Doc Searls, but got Frontier error message.)

SemanticStyle(*BARBUDDIES)
SemanticTone(*DEANIC SomewhatReflective)

I'm outta here...

Sardonic(*ON)
After having gotten the bum's rush at "BurningBitches", and now getting 403 Forbidden from her site. (And I'm near certain that's a coincidence of syncronicty of netGeekGlitchdom, right? (spit)):
Sardonic(*OFF)

I don't have the time, resources, or energy anymore. Don't like speaking my political views in public, like you do Doc. (And I may have misjudged you, as far as how you voted in 2000, but extremists like you are still trying to take over the Democratic Party, and will probably succeed, in error.)

You understand, when you give Joe Trippi a standing o, right...? You understand that you're giving yourself applause, Doc, because he used your Cluetrain techniques. Didn't use them correctly, imv, but everyone acknowledges that it was your Cluetrain that in part cost the American public $40 MILLION.

And you congratulate yourself for that, meanwhile Doc Weinberger goes on blaming the media. (I didn't see Kucinich on prime time and Prime Time, did You??)

You get some things extremely right like your post over at bB's on the downside of having your brain tethered to what is, in essence, a high-brow form a mass entertainment.

I'm not sure why you don't see, from the very article you linked to a Bb's, the Cluetrain IS "is maintained by manufactured entertainment, consumed on a massive scale by citizens of civilized countries around the world. The result is stupidity on a grand scale." Iow, blogging lead to the squander of $40M.

It just was NOT done correctly. Here's why:

"#1: '... Joe Trippi, by substituting interactive, free-for-all dialogues for top-down, Karl Rove-style messaging, really could use the Net to take back the White House.'"

And how do you know that Karl Rove wasn't participating in that, or do you?

"#2: '... trusting your fans to speak for you in their own words makes you seem less aloof and less arrogant ...'"

True, to a small extent... Funny how Mr. Dean came across as arrogant, to a lot of people. I never saw anything on TV, but the Blogdom indicated as much.

But what if these fans tell a false tale of the candidate, as they will? What if they paint the candidate as a flaming-ass Libertarian, when the candidate isn't a-tall?? What if they plead for the candidate to run, and swear they didn't sign on to vote for any stinkin' DEMOCRAT, after he's announced his withdrawal???

Joe Trippi had no answer to these questions, but that's not my problem. My problem is people are congratulating themselves for squandering $40M, instead of searching for what happened to it (and following the money trail is only the surface, but that's not coming to light, even)... Yeah, it was the media.

Read it and weep: http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/003774.html I could only read the first 50 or 100, and saw they're STILL sending money in.

Don't like speaking my personal political views in public, like you do Doc. But I will say that extremists like you and Dr. W and Shel and Anil Dash and now, Mr. Boutin..

..well you are pushing me in the direction of voting for President Bush, when I've voted for every Dem candidate since McGovern. I'm undecided, a lame lurker according to most, so I'm still not telling you much about my views here now either, I s'pose.

I'm outta here... Cluetrain and manifestos tend to win the whuffie wars, just like WOE did by whuffie alone, so I guess I should be congratulating all y'all myself.

SemanticStyle(*MID-FORMAL)
SemanticTone(*DWEEB)

But before I go, let me ask you this, Doc:

You know a lot of tech-folk, so what do they recommend: Linux on a 400 LPAR, or Linux on a 400 PC co-processor card?? If the latter, do they recommend the internal because it sits on the system bus, or the external for flexibility?? And I'm hearing that it takes as little as dedicating 1/10 of a processor to get a decent Server LPAR going, but I am somewhat incredulous. Then why is the 400 limited to only 16 Linux LPAR's...?!?

Something isn't really adding up right, and I don't know Linux enough to tell.

Speaking of which, when IBM talks of a 16-way (and 32-ways coming?), are they counting those in processors?!? I mean, the Power core is two (2) CPUs, so is a 16-way 8 chips or 16?? I dunno. There's a LOT I don't know, so I don't put out claims like I do... I know what I know, is all.

At any rate, I'll be lurking as much as possible here, Doc. Don't have it together to comment any more. But that will please some.

SemanticStyle(*MID-FORMAL)
SemanticStyle(*ANGRY *SARCASTIC)

I'd posted I wasn't going to post anymore over here to Corante. I either lied or I've changed my mind.

"I think it's a confused meme that diverts attention from the real echo chambers, beginning with the mainstream media."

You wouldn't want to be diverting attention from the real echo chambers, meaning the Blogdom you've helped create, would you Dr. Weinberger??

Well, as I told the Happy Tutor...

Ooops. Meant SemanticTONE(*SEMI-ANGRY *SARCASTIC)

And I'll add: Yeah... SURE it was the media, because ONLY the MEDIA has such a poor sense of objectivity that it NEVER saw the Dean Campaign failures as a possibility, NEVER saw it coming (so COULD do nothing to adjust in time), and some STILL see don't "get it".

Yeah, it's the MEDIA that's the problem.

Let's ALL get our story straight on THAT one, and then we can proceed all hunky-dory like it didn't ever happen...

In fact, it was a GOOD THING the Campaign went the way it did, because of ALL the GREAT things the Campaign accomplished, right?

I'd like to put $40 MILLION into perspective, because Dr. Weinberger said "raising the money was easy" and Mr. Jarvis implied keeping the movement going might be a good idea because "it's a cash machine":

A public service announcement from the Wife of my late half-Brother:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ok ladies! This is the year. Subject: Breast Cancer Stamp

ALL RIGHT EVERYONE Lets do this!!!!!! :-) We need those of you who are great at forwarding information to your e-mail network. Please read and pass this on. It would be wonderful if 2004 was the year a cure for breast cancer was found!!!! This is one e-mail you should be glad to pass on. The notion that we could raise $35 million by buying a book of stamps is powerful! As you may be aware, the US Postal Service recently released its new "Fund the Cure" stamp to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. It is important that we take a stand against this disease that affects so many of our Mothers, Sisters and Friends. Instead of the normal 37 cents for a stamp, this one costs 40 cents. The additional 3 cents will go to breast cancer research. A "normal" book costs $7.40. This one is only $8.00. It takes a few minutes in line at the Post Office and means so much. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $35,000,000 for this vital research. Just as important as the money is our support. What a statement it would make if the stamp outsold the lottery this week. What a statement it would make that we care. I would urge you to do two things TODAY: 1. Go out and purchase some of these stamps. 2. E-mail your friends to do the same. We all know women and their families whose lives are turned upside-down by breast cancer. It takes so little to do so much in this drive. I think we can all afford the additional 60 cents that a book of this stamp costs. Please help & pass this on .

. . Blessings

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And NO!... We do NOT need another MOVEMENT... We don't need a "Let's all do this and make the [insert person's name here] FUND a SUCCESS...!"

Buy the stamps if ya wanna, is all.

$40 Million would buy a lot of Democracy in Iraq, also, given the exchange rate.