To: Cage Rattler who wrote (20 ) 2/23/2002 6:49:04 PM From: d:oug Respond to of 100 Ted, Thanks and off the home page are, as you are aware of, many places to visit and learn. Freedom of speech also allows others the freedom to twist and turn what one may say in public so a different or counter message is delivered, and sometimes misguided folks of the Chatters & StonedGray types do what appears as a "service to mankind" with just the opposite result. Too many people simply do not input whats available as thoughts since this requires one to take the next step and understand its truth or falsehood. The web site you referenced has many well written articles that can become a foundation for agreement or dissent.csf.colorado.edu CSF - Communications for a Sustainable Future [start.] Some of the same ideas that insprired CSF are expressed in an entirely different way and context by another Boulderite...cluetrain.com The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual Copyright © 1999 Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberg ...if you only have time for one clue this year, this is the one... Take a pot of water that's just above the freezing mark. Now, crank up the heat and wait. Temperature rises. Wait some more. Go all the way to 211 degrees Fahrenheit and nothing looks much different. But then, turn it up one more tiny degree, and wham! The pot becomes a roiling, steamy cauldron. Don't look now, but you're holding such a catalyst in your hands. The Cluetrain Manifesto is about to drive business to a full boil. Let me tell you how it took me to the tipping point... [end.] ... to the tipping point (or) Are we there yet? Seems so, many times over. (so) Who or what is pouring cold water into the pot at the point of the 211 degrees Fahrenheit "to the tipping point" do deny us JUSTICE and ACCOUNTABILITY? d:oug