[iDC] A Reflection on the Activist Strategies in the Web 2.0 Era

[kranenbu at xs4all.nl]

Hi

> Poetic language can do the trick too if it is worthy enough. ideally
> one's plainest language is also one's most poetic. I am reminded here
> of Muhammad Ali's statement when giving a commencement speech at
> Harvard. In response to the question: "What is your philosophy?" Ali
> replied with two words: "Me. We."
>
> Now 'that'  is a deep study of the language and rhetoric of networking.

Best I've read in a while!

Mayber we best all go chew pine gum :)

Dempsey chewed pine gum to strengthen his jaw, "bathing his face in beef
brine to toughen the skin," as he wrote in his Autobiography.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_/ai_2419200300

It seems to me Obama has chewed up about 80% of all the poetry in the
world for 2008 and 2009 too and I sure hope he'll be able to make it work
for all of us. It was a very strong voodoo, that it was.

With the rest of all the rhetoric left to us, I agree we should get as
mundane as possible,

Salut! Rob