On 24 Apr, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
This work is more or less the kind of work that building a great wide
spread party organization used to mean a hundred years ago. The main
difference now is about having a technical tool to aid the process
in a
way news paper publicity once did. That means taking better advantage
of interactivity of content than was possible with one to many media.
Doyle,
assuming I understand you correctly, I agree 100%. This is the point
I have been trying to convince PEN-L and LBO members about. It takes
only a few "digg"s to promote a submission (such as recent books by
Perelman, Yates, others) to the front page. And in this case, it is
not even a case of subverting the system, for each of the "digg"s
(recommendations) would be a genuine one.
As you point out, there are many venues by which we can get our
message out into the Internet, more so than previously available.
Both the right and the centrist liberals are pushing the limits in
this area, and given the natural lock-in caused by excess choice,
delays on our part could be insurmountable. From our camp (assuming
we are all in the same camp!) I see some reluctance towards organised
effort, adopting technology, etc. What are your thoughts on this
reluctance? Am I underestimating the learning curve, as a techie? Is
the CW that these techniques will be fruitless in the long-run?
I plan to write up a post on my blog pointing some of the recent
books by PEN-L authors. I will then post a link to that entry to Digg
and provide a link to the Digg submission here on PEN-L. I will also
provide instructions on how to sign up on Digg and Digg a submission
(and you should Digg it only if you consider it worthwhile). Perhaps
such concrete steps might ease the path to adoption!
--ravi
