http://gapingvoid.com/2006/02/23/shirky-is-god/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:04:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://gapingvoid.com/2006/02/23/shirky-is-god/#comment-10194 Lemi4 aka. fERDI:) Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:40:45 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=2117#comment-10194 Beware the personality cult. Vision is immensely valuable but mere mortals will never be truly God. Or something. [But there is something about Shirky's theses though...] [Note to self: to support his Micropatron business model, Jason Kottke needed to create a personality cult. Upon failing to do so (thus failing to "generate sufficient traffic increase"), he has called it quits on his little experiment, deciding to pursue other methods of funding. See <a href="http://www.kottke.org/06/02/oh-what-a-year" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.kottke.org/06/02/oh-what-a-year" rel="nofollow">http://www.kottke.org/06/02/oh-what-a-year</a></a> for details] Beware the personality cult. Vision is immensely valuable but mere mortals will never be truly God.
Or something.
[But there is something about Shirky's theses though...]
[Note to self: to support his Micropatron business model, Jason Kottke needed to create a personality cult. Upon failing to do so (thus failing to "generate sufficient traffic increase"), he has called it quits on his little experiment, deciding to pursue other methods of funding. See http://www.kottke.org/06/02/oh-what-a-year for details]

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