Headed out to PCForum in just a few weeks time.
Always a great conference, lots to learn.
Release 1.0 / PC Forum / Theme:
"Erosion of Power: Users in charge"
"Nearly every company I meet is focused on offering users more control and greater choice. With all these Web 2.0 technologies and business models, it seems, users can do anything!
In fact, the "user in charge" theme resonates to the point of irrational exuberance. I love the idea, but the last five years have taught us - or most of us - some healthy skepticism. What's the downside? I want the Forum to celebrate user choice - and to show how to build a successful business by offering it."
Sorry that Doc Searls isn't going to be there.
This is right up his alley.
But I have a recurring image ... Users in Charge? Inmates in Charge?
Marat/Sade (1967):
aka :"'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'"
Haven't seen the movie since it was out in '67 (yeah yeah ... so it dates me) but the images stick.
For those not familiar with the movie, from IMDB:
IMDb user comments for Marat/Sade (1967):
"As the title implies, the film is entirely a play-within-a-play where most cast members depict both a character from the French Revolution as well as an insane asylum inmate playing that character. While the film (like the later comedy-drama about deSade, 'Quills') addresses censorship, it is primarily concerned with a debate between Marat as a sort of representative of revolutionary radical communism, and de Sade as a nihilistic existentialist frustrated with his own, and society's, violently cruel urges, as well as the futility of revolutionary action to improve mankind."
Where is the balance, the "sweet spot" between the flexiblity and control.
I have faith in markets to clear out the junk and blow away the chaff ... but sometimes it gets "messy"
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