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Kathleen Herding's musings on new media.
sometimes I worry that if I write my special kind of poetry here this will look like a splog. that's so sad. I mean, how would you know?
LACDA is excited to introduce Brazilian artist Lucio Carvalho in his premiere exhibition in the United States. As a child Lucio's father objected to his obsession with art making and consequently he did all of his drawing beneath the dining table. The series is a return to his childhood practice featuring twelve masterfully rendered portraits of the artist's relatives seated at the table surrounded by all of their important objects of life.
Labels: art culture
"The idea behind OpenLiberty is to provide a community for open-source developers to communicate and collaborate on open identity standards," Jason Roualt, vice president of Liberty Alliance, said in an interview. "There are a few open-source efforts around identity, but the main thing that they are missing is the ability to support identity-based Web services, getting beyond single sign-on to sharing identity attributes."I can't for the life of me understand what they're getting so worked up about. Can you? Why, here at Kat Herding Media, we all share identities! I'm going to have a smoke and think about this.
...I started thinking to myself, if this is something that any healthy 22-year-old can work through without too much fuss, then how come so many large companies, with all those smart, experienced, talented people making the big money and the big decisions, find it so difficult?"Hi, I'm a large company, and I'm going to blow $100 million telling you how great I am. I'm so great. I rock. That's right. And you like me, too. You really do. You like hanging onto my every word. Group Hug!"
Maybe this is why so many companies find the whole Web 2.0, post-Cluetrain world so painful. Growing up always is, he said, rolling his eyeballs.
Now, can someone please explain to me a) what that picture has to do with what he wrote, b) what's wrong with group hugs, and c) what a "Cluetrain" is?
[Bonus back-link:] "This could apply to SO MANY industries. Heh."
Then click on the one that says "recursion." Heh heh.
(And hey look! We got written up in a magazine!)
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And that all looks pretty innocent, until...
Our little secret, OK?