Day: May 7, 2005

Here is Marc Canter's take on DIDW versus the bottoms-up identity initiative:

So I am going to DIDW. It's key. I have no way of NOT going!

Eric Norlin slapped me around a bit today and both me and Doc took so lumps for not getting it together by grabbing an entire afternoon for our communal cause.

But it's all good – cause this will be a catalyst for us to go out and have our own dam show. DIDW is an enterprise show – and we need a show of our own.

Don't give up the ghost yet! Since last year, those of us who believe in bottoms up have made a lot of progress in getting parity with top-down.

Here's a call for everyone interested in bottoms up identity to be at the Hyatt in San Francisco on Monday afternoon at 1:00 – no conference pass necessary.

I'd love to meet you if you can get there. Stay tuned for room number.

I have received a surprising volume of correspondence in multiple media about the use of “dialog” as a verb. There seems to be a bug in Radio Userland since it currently shows only 4 comments whereas I have pages of comments and emails. I do like this link brought to us from an “anonymous blog reader”:

Usage Note: In recent years the verb sense of dialogue meaning “to engage in an informal exchange of views” has been revived, particularly with reference to communication between parties in institutional or political contexts. Although Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Carlyle used it, this usage today is widely regarded as jargon or bureaucratese. Ninety-eight percent of the Usage Panel rejects the sentence Critics have charged that the department was remiss in not trying to dialogue with representatives of the community before hiring the new officers.

I can assure you that the usage panel doesn't want to dialog about their conclusions.

Which means I can get back to work.