Ten years ago The Cluetrain Manifesto was a website that had been up for a couple of months — long enough to create a stir and get its four authors a book deal. By early June we had begun work on the book, which would wrap in August and come out in January. So at the moment we’re past the website’s anniversary and shy of the book’s.
That’s close enough for 10th Anniversary Edition of The Cluetrain Manifesto, which will hit the streets this month. The new book, which arrived at my house yesterday, is the same as the original (we didn’t change a word). but with the addition of a new introduction by David Weinberger, four new chapters by each of the four authors (Chris Locke and Rick Levine, in addition to Dr. Weinberger and myself), and one each by Dan Gillmor, Jake McKee and JP Rangaswami.
A lot has happened in the last decade. A lot hasn’t happened too. To reflect on both, the Berkman Center will host a conversation called Cluetrain at 10: So How’s Utopia Working Out for Ya? at Harvard Law School.
David Weinberger and I will be joined by Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard Law professor and author of The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It. “JZ” was a student at HLS when he co-founded the Berkman Center eleven years ago. David and I are both fellows at the center as well. The three of us will talk for a bit and then the rest of it will be open to the floor, both in the room and out on the IRC (and other backchannels), since the conversation will be webcast as well. It starts at 6:00 pm East Coast time.
Meet/meat space is the Austin East Classroom of Austin Hall at Harvard Law School. It’s free and open to everybody. Since it’s a classroom and expected to fill up, an RSVP is requested. To do that, go here.
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June 5, 2009 at 10:34 am
Chris Locke
Damn, I wish I could be there! If so, I would certainly lean heavily on the fact that, of the four original self-styled firebrand revolutionaries, one is now making fancy chocolate for a living, one is a grumpy old recluse who spends his days telling bad jokes on Facebook (that would be me), and two have been co-opted into the ultimate bastion of The Establishment. Meanwhile, Olivia Munn (!!!) is about to do a whole-day extravaganza on Hulu celebrating the blessed advent of Microsoft’s new advertising platform, Bing. It’s good to know we’ve made a difference.
June 5, 2009 at 10:39 am
John Wilker
Awesome, ordering a copy now! Cluetrain has been a huge part of my business life! Can’t wait to read the new stuff and re-read the old
again.
June 5, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Maarten Lens-FitzGerald
Hi Doc, I wish I could be there! And cool that you publishing a new version.
I’m working hard with teh SPRX crew on the launch of the first mobile augmented reality browser… its called http://layar.eu
AR on your mobile will be a logical way for VRM to interface on the go between individuals and sellers.
Btw we just had our two year momo Amsterdam event. Last year you were there! Its unbelievable what a year its been. Here is what happened last Monday: http://www.mobilemonday.nl/category/talks/
we had
* Joseph Pine II
* Howard Rheingold
* Jamais Cascio
* Alan Moore
* Robert Rice
* Andrew Grill
cheers
Maarten
June 5, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Doc Searls
Ah, Chris, wish you could be there too. But why be present in spirit when there’s always the backchannel. Tweet it or come in through #berkman on IRC… or … we should think of something.
June 6, 2009 at 10:04 am
Sally Falkow
Doc,
Would you come to CalTech to do one of these?
June 6, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Doc Searls
Sally, if by “one of these” you mean a talk, I’d be glad to, when I’m back in Santa Barbara. In fact I gave one there just a couple months back, at the CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum. The audio is here: http://www.entforum.caltech.edu/program_audio.htm
June 6, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Doc Searls
Sally, if by “one of these” you mean a talk, I’d be glad to, when I’m back in Santa Barbara. In fact I gave one there just a couple months back, at the CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum. The audio is here: http://www.entforum.caltech.edu/program_audio.htm It wasn’t Cluetrain-related, though. Anyway, I love CalTech and would be game.
June 6, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Mary Lu Wehmeier
Hey you! Wish you’d come home to CA. You’re missed. Like Chris, I really wish Doug and I could be at this gathering. It would be fun to be at the 10th especially since we were at the rollout talk at Siggraph with you and David. ‘Can’t believe it’s been 10 years. I’ll camp on via the webcast– Why not set up a Skype connection for Chris so he can participate?
If you decide to do anything at CalTech– let me know. I want to be there.
Mary Lu xxoo
June 7, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Chip
Doc
was just posting link to this when, with tv on in background
Grosse Pointe Blank … and a character (Jeremy Piven) is at the wheel of the car screaming “Ten Years …. TEN YEARS AGO”
http://looneydunes.blogspot.com/2009/06/ten-years-ago.html
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