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Indigestible Dvor(zh)ak?
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Martin Jensen
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Feb 28, 2002 22:25 PST
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| | Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:41:32 -0600
From: "Marek J" <front-@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [cluetrain] Dvorak on Cluetrain
Who is Dvorak?
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He is
a) A Romantic classical composer with a flair for the dramatic
b) A guy that invented a keyboard that was too smart for anyone who
already knew how to type (the wrong way)
c) A weenie with a complex about the missing "z" in his name
| | Ziemianie!
Rozpoczela sie ogolnoswiatowa rozmowa...
Koniec Ery Tradycyjnego Biznesu.
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Sounds like you got plenty of extra z's to spare, alter-MJ. Maybe you
could help him out.
Someone else sayeth:
| | He is particularly fond of the Magic Flute:
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And I'm willing to bet my wolfgang you know what that means! And then
someone else quoth thusly, thusly, thusly, thusly.
| | | | | | | | I say drop it. He's a waste of all of your energy.
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I sayeth some of us Junior Cultists take the list in Digest form, all
this embeddedness gives us headaches headaches headaches headaches.
Trim your topica, ladies and gentlemen!
And then a third party continueth:
| | The last
question I asked him was if he knew of a new economic model that
could
support this new emerging voice on the Web.
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There is a model. It's called CAPITALISM. (Kind of a typographic pun,
get it?). As I remember from Econ 101, one of the things that made the
"invisible hand" work was that you had a knowing buyer and a knowing
cellar (er, seller). The seller traded his goods for the dollars a
knowing buyer was willing to give. The buyer, being a knowing buyer,
knew if the guy down the street (or at the next URL -- now is this making
sense?) had the same item for a lower cost and/or a higher quality. The
seller had to lower the price and/or raise the quality to match his
competitor.
Only problem is, until now, the "knowing" was way on the advantage of the
seller. The buyer didn't know when he was buying his sneakers that he
was buying misery and slavery for children in the third world. The buyer
didn't know that when she was buying a happy meal, she was also buying
food additives that made her kids drool and saturated fat that would
shorten their lives. And don't poopoo me and say, yeahbut they buy more
of that stuff now. The more the information is out, the more the people
will act on informed choice. They may not do what you want them to do,
or what the experts want them to do, but the deck will not be stacked so
mightily against them. And I think if you actually look at phenomena
like natural food stores, organics, etc., you will find them small, but
eating market share at an accelerating rate. Viva Trader Joe!
Kind of cool, isn't it, when we overthrow capitalism with CAPITALISM, as
evenly-armed competitors in a formerly one-sided contest?
And one more thing. When do I get to start coming to the naked dances?
Will I have to learn the special handshake first?
Sorry to all the clever contributors I dyscredited -- if you knew the
characteristics of the machine I am doing this on, you would understand!
Martin Jensen
martin.-@juno.com
Essays, etc.: http://fulcrum.blogspot.com/
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