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July 11, 2004

: Cluetrain is basically a wildly uneven, insane rant that makes little sense. Nor does all of it stand up to intellectual scrutiny. But since when has marketing been sane and rational? Since when have people’s purchasing habits been sane and rational? If people weren’t inherently psychotic, my day job would be a whole lot easier. We need an insane book because insanity is much closer to the truth. (PS: just added this last paragraph to The Hughtrain)
: Apparently me linking to “Badass New York Food Blogger Chick” Laren (my words, not hers) last week drove a lot of traffic to her site. So I’m doing it again.
: I suppose I should do the same for Cynthia Rockwell as well. Smart, funny academic/film chick in Boston.
: Since we’re on the subject of smart, funny women, Gia is an American living in London. She writes a lot about the media and the BBC. I met her in London a few weeks ago. Really great to talk to.
: Imajes has taken it upon himself to do some clever things with Technorati.
: Speaking of Technorati, gapingvoid is now #1 Google Search for “Smarter Conversations”.
: Robert Paterson has a good post about how the Magic Number is one hundred and fifty (150) i.e. that’s how big a group (online or offline) can get and still operate as a meaningful, cohesive human whole, before turning into a faceless crowd of nobodies.
: Not gotten a lot of feedback so far on the American launch of the fine art prints (Same product, much lower shipping charges to the USA than before). It’s OK, my mind has mostly been on other things recently, so I’ve not been chasing it up. What sayest thou?
: The emphasis of my cartoons seems to be moving away from getting drunk/getting laid and heading more towards getting the man to get his frickin’ checkbook out. A sign of maturity, I suppose. Damn.

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