I’m surprised no one has made the obvious connection yet: Now that they’ve killed Howard Dean, the evil corporate media (i.e. me) have convinced Nader to run and are giving him coverage in order to throw the election to Bush! Crazy, you say, but isn’t the fact that a Slate writer mocks an idea proof that it’s true?
Also, the iPod Mini is kind of overpriced. More MEDIA CONSPIRACY!
I was just reading Doc’s 2000 essay on Nader when it struck me that Doc and I haven’t spoken much lately. I met Doc in a cafe line in Camden, Maine in 2000 and fell in love with him instantly. He’s funny online, but in person he’s one of the most charming people on Earth.
So Doc, did you notice that my latest on Slate contains not one, but two uncited references to The Cluetrain Manifesto?
#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.”#2: “… trusting your fans to speak for you in their own words makes you seem less aloof and less arrogant … ”
Those were specific references to Cluetrain. My editor took out the name-drop, though, and why? Because those ideas have become accepted in the mainstream. Or at least the Slate-reading part of the mainstream. Congrats.
Monty Python sighting: Vanity Fair, “The Hollywood Issue” currently onstand, page 342 or thereabouts.
Patrick Di Justo wrote about Teleflip two weeks ago, but someone just now pointed it out to me.
