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Saturday, May 21, 2005 |
Corporate PR disintermediation real-time case study.
Welcome to the post press release era* when corporate communications is "usurped" by those who can carry on conversations; ripped from the hands of those who draft inverted pyramid corporate statements filled with self-congratulatory phrases no one can understand anyway.
Here is our case-study of the morning, in real-time (or you can wait for some stinkin' seminar white paper a few months from now).
1. The CEO of Microsoft is quoted by a blogger in a way that appears to dismiss RSS as being too simple (deja vu moment, here, as I flash back a decade when a Microsoft CEO dismissed HTML as being too simple, okay, where was I). 2. The person drawing a Microsoft paycheck who has the most blogosheric street cred responds (with due respect, of course) to the quote attributed to his boss's, boss's (snip some bosses) boss. 3. The creator/defender of RSS says, "What tha'...?"4. The Microsoft street-cred blogger dips into his deep pockets filled with whuffie and spends some on behalf of his boss's, b's, b's etc. 5. The creator/defender of RSS says, "We'll see...but blogger street cred guy is one cool dude." Lesson of the morning: In the conversational media age, shared values and relationships trump corporate hierarchy and complex communication processes.
*As one of the seven readers of this weblog is in the business of press release distribution, I predict the need for such services will never go away (as long as publicly traded companies and the SEC exist).
[rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog]
11:25:10 AM 
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[Historical, not report] N2H2 and secret ABORTION, HOMOSEXUALITY categories.
[Historical, not a report - but 100.0% original content, you will not find this anywhere else in the great bloviating blog mass of echoing and opinionating, I guarantee it]
While I'm on the topic of censorware and religious connections, especially of N2H2 (censorware company), this is a good time to mention one tale from the bowels of the censorware blacklist.
When I first decrypted N2H2's blacklists, one of the intriguing discoveries I made was the presence of additional blacklists labeled "ABORTION" and "HOMOSEXUALITY". Important - these were not used in the ordinary retail product. They might have been a supplement or add-on used in Religious-Right contexts, it was unclear (as I joke, I can't exactly call up technical support and ask them about these topics). But ... hmm! It certainly meant something. But there wasn't any obvious way to do further investigation.
I'm not counting this as a censored censorware report, because I never could figure out how to put it all together to publishable material. More "one that got away". At a certain level, the mere existence of the categories might be news. But since it was not verifiable by any means other than decryption, and I had NO SUPPORT (but plenty of attacks), there didn't seem to be any way of having it matter. [Infothought]
11:23:02 AM
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Feds Widen LexisNexis Probe. The FBI and Secret Service carry out searches in California and Minnesota trying to find the hackers who stole information from the large database company. [Wired News]
10:51:48 AM
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"Drebenized".
UPDATE: Moving to the front again, from January 10, 2005. Very interesting comments, on some very interesting ideas and questions about what exactly it is philosophers are doing. I hope some other philosophers will comment.
[Leiter Reports]
I concur: some discussion really worth reading (if you care about how professional philosohy works or about what professional philosophy ought to be or how or why professional philosophy matters).
10:51:26 AM
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Bush Blasts Human Clone Research. President Bush condemns South Korean scientists for using human embryos in stem-cell research, and vows to veto any legislative attempt to loosen restrictions on human cloning in the United States. [Wired News]
10:37:24 AM
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