Dale Lature: cluetrainThe intersection between theology and Cluetrain rantingsAllowing Voice- May 27, 2003 In Small Pieces, Loosely joined, Weinberger describes "Corporate-speak" as "bizarre", and indeed it is. I ask the question, when does "religious or theological language" become more like "corporate speak" When does this organizational, "lets please all people all the time" approach become a conversation killer Companies talk in bizarre, stilted ways becuase they believe that such language expresses their perfection: omniscient, unflappable, precise, eleveated, and.http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/cluetrain/2003/05/27.html#a1819 Experts and The Threat of the Net- May 26, 2003 Thinking back to the discussion at Vanderbilt led by Weinberger and AKMA, and the debate that arose over the nature, role, status, and value of "the expert", I was just thinking about the way the Church leaders of Luther's day looked at him and his use of "printing" as a channel to circulate his views. They immediately procalimed the printing press as "evil" because it allowed "just anybody" to be heard by a larger public than they as "official leaders" had gained...http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/cluetrain/2003/05/26.html#a1818 Clueless review- May 25, 2003 I found this link at the Smallpieces.com site, and had to click and see what his problem was. from the review by this guy at the Washington Post, who has a little diatribe of his own, giving us a good example of the thing he is criticizing about The Cluetrain Manifesto and of Small Pieces Loosely joined, by exhibiting how he simply doesn't get it about Sociology and the Web. Read my response in Large Chunks, Thoroughly Missedhttp://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/cluetrain/2003/05/25.html#a1812 Small Pieces Loosely Joined- May 25, 2003 This site for the Book has all the text (it looks like it does) and discussions branching out in all directions, creating a lot of "loosely joined pieces"http://www.smallpieces.com/ Small Places, Joined by Interest- May 25, 2003 From Small Pieces. Loosely Joined (p.49): Consider the three places &150; Adbusters, NetBaby, and RageBoy&146;s site &150; on the Myrtle site that we explored. What do they really have in common One is a political site, one is a game spot for children, and one is an idiosyncratic collection of essays by a writer with too much personality for his own good. All that holds them together is that someone at Myrtle found them interesting. For that reason alone, the three sites have been placed near..http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/cluetrain/2003/05/25.html#a1810 Theses 8 to 10- May 18, 2003 In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new way. These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms of social organization and knowledge exchange to emerge. As a result, markets are getting smarter, more informed, more organized. Participation in a networked market changes people fundamentally. Second, powerful new forms of social organization and knowledge exchange are emerging. The...http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/cluetrain/2003/05/18.html#a1754 Talk amongst yourselves- May 18, 2003 Cluetrain theses 8 thru 10 In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new way. These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms of social organization and knowledge exchange to emerge. As a result, markets are getting smarter, more informed, more organized. Participation in a networked market changes people fundamentally. People seak to one another differently than they do to the "authorities" and the...http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/cluetrain/2003/05/18.html#a1753 AKMA on Weinberger in AKMA-land- May 17, 2003 AKMA, in blogging the presentation Weinberger gave at Seabury-Western A global recommendation system has sprung up, making us interested in things we never knew we would be interested in. While there&146;s value to straining toward objectivity, the Web provides a massively interlinked intersubjective network, giving some of the weight that objectivity always used to have. For me, this is the thing in which lies the greatest potential for the Church and online communications. ...http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/000458.html Bridging the Gap and Enabling Voice- May 17, 2003 Commerce is a natural part of human life, but it has become increasingly unnatural over the intervening centuries, incrementally divorcing itself from the people on whom it most depends, whether workers or customers. While this change is in many ways understandable &151; huge factories took the place of village shops; the marketplace moved from the center of the town and came to depend on far-flung mercantile trade &151; the result has been to interpose a vast chasm between buyers and sellers...http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/cluetrain/2003/05/17.html#a1748 God's web developers- May 17, 2003 I see Church publishers and organizations providing us with plenty of "religious versions" of "marketer-speak'; phrases and lingo that does not quite ring true. Absent, are the "testimonies", the expressions; the passion. CHurches and their "communication" agencies have been mysteriiously absent from any discussions , say for instance, in the "Social Software" arena. The Pope's Astrophysicist article in WIRED back in the December issue...http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/cluetrain/2003/05/17.html#a1747 |