Comments on: My Words are my Sword http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:23:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: alex filippakis http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-246058 alex filippakis Wed, 14 May 2008 17:59:28 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-246058 My words are my world my prison ,my walls the stairs that i climb to get me gently in the skies My words are my swords the weapons i hide my army that craves in battles to fight My words are the dwarfs that linger in tales humbly awaiting for a part to be played My words are my prayers that hope to reach God but stumbling on clouds they fall on the ground My words are my fleet in oceans and storms with sails that have torn the winds from the North My words are the wings of a bird that can't fly and it stays perched by the sea its whole life My words are my world
my prison ,my walls
the stairs that i climb
to get me gently in the skies

My words are my swords
the weapons i hide
my army that craves
in battles to fight

My words are the dwarfs
that linger in tales
humbly awaiting
for a part to be played

My words are my prayers
that hope to reach God
but stumbling on clouds
they fall on the ground

My words are my fleet
in oceans and storms
with sails that have torn
the winds from the North

My words are the wings
of a bird that can’t fly
and it stays perched
by the sea its whole life

]]> By: Christoph Jaggi http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245933 Christoph Jaggi Thu, 08 May 2008 08:53:57 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245933 Marc, the industry would be even more boring and complacent if it wouldn't be for people like you who dare to speak out things that need to be said. There is way too much marketing bs out there and the user/buyer is only seen in his function as potential cash-cow. That is true in both, the consumer and the enterprise sector. Marc,

the industry would be even more boring and complacent if it wouldn’t be for people like you who dare to speak out things that need to be said. There is way too much marketing bs out there and the user/buyer is only seen in his function as potential cash-cow. That is true in both, the consumer and the enterprise sector.

]]> By: Prokofy Neva http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245902 Prokofy Neva Wed, 07 May 2008 03:39:14 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245902 I agree about this VC tendency to make their social media revolution eat its children-founders. I don't see that as much in non-tech industries. I find it creepy. I mean, Wendy's doesn't kill off the Wendy's guy, they keep him around forever, even when he dies. Re: "when he’ll release the enslaved personal data of his users". I don't feel that my personal data is enslaved. I feel it's protected from over Googlization I have to face in many applications that just lead to more spam and harassment of me as a controversial speaker. I don't think there's some God-given automatic right for you to take my data and my proximity graph and port it. I just don't hear enough concern about this. What I feel is that the obsession about data porting is really an obsession with opening up the geek widget-making factory access, and I'm sick of widgets. Given that all you need to move from service to service is...to use the same log-in name and password even -- I fail to see the urgent public need that you do. I agree about this VC tendency to make their social media revolution eat its children-founders. I don’t see that as much in non-tech industries. I find it creepy. I mean, Wendy’s doesn’t kill off the Wendy’s guy, they keep him around forever, even when he dies.

Re: “when he’ll release the enslaved personal data of his users”. I don’t feel that my personal data is enslaved. I feel it’s protected from over Googlization I have to face in many applications that just lead to more spam and harassment of me as a controversial speaker. I don’t think there’s some God-given automatic right for you to take my data and my proximity graph and port it. I just don’t hear enough concern about this.

What I feel is that the obsession about data porting is really an obsession with opening up the geek widget-making factory access, and I’m sick of widgets.

Given that all you need to move from service to service is…to use the same log-in name and password even — I fail to see the urgent public need that you do.

]]> By: Alan Wilensky http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245897 Alan Wilensky Tue, 06 May 2008 23:00:46 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245897 Kara Swisher may use 'I' less, but she has less to say. Her writing of late has become Cnet Lite - hokey, jokey, lightweight, insubstantial, and probably sourced exclusively from her domestic insider source. One could never tell she was, at one time, a serious journalist. Kara Swisher may use ‘I’ less, but she has less to say. Her writing of late has become Cnet Lite - hokey, jokey, lightweight, insubstantial, and probably sourced exclusively from her domestic insider source. One could never tell she was, at one time, a serious journalist.

]]> By: fred wilson http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245896 fred wilson Tue, 06 May 2008 21:52:00 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245896 marc i don't mind getting skewered by your words and there's always a little truth to everything. keep saying what's on your mind. fred marc

i don’t mind getting skewered by your words and there’s always a little truth to everything.

keep saying what’s on your mind.

fred

]]> By: Robert Seidman http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245894 Robert Seidman Tue, 06 May 2008 21:23:22 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245894 Wow, you used the word *I* FORTY TIMES in this post. Perhaps there is some biblical significance. In Kara's post on Marc A. joining forces with Mark Z., she only used the word I five times (and three were from her long-ish book excerpt). You're out I-ing Kara by eight times! Plus you used "my" or a variant fourteen times. You only used "me" four times though. Someday there will be automatic semantic filtering to group posts into categories. You'll be a leader in the "me, me, me" category. Wow, you used the word *I* FORTY TIMES in this post. Perhaps there is some biblical significance. In Kara’s post on Marc A. joining forces with Mark Z., she only used the word I five times (and three were from her long-ish book excerpt). You’re out I-ing Kara by eight times! Plus you used “my” or a variant fourteen times. You only used “me” four times though.

Someday there will be automatic semantic filtering to group posts into categories. You’ll be a leader in the “me, me, me” category.

]]> By: Alan Wilensky http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245891 Alan Wilensky Tue, 06 May 2008 20:21:39 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/my-words-are-my-sword#comment-245891 Marc Quixote de la Valley! viva Marc. Marc Quixote de la Valley! viva Marc.

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