{"id":2218,"date":"2007-11-13T13:47:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T22:02:35","slug":"dont-worry-about-people-stealing-your-ideas-if-your-ideas-are-any-good-youll-have-to-ram-them-down-peoples-throats-howard-aiken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2218\/dont-worry-about-people-stealing-your-ideas-if-your-ideas-are-any-good-youll-have-to-ram-them-down-peoples-throats-howard-aiken\/","title":{"rendered":"“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” — Howard Aiken"},"content":{"rendered":"

The quote comes from WorkHappy.net<\/a> this morning. Yesterday — plane-bound, casino-bound, Twitter<\/i>-bound — unable to post — I reflected upon why it’s all just so much waxed fruit — for now:<\/p>\n

Rusting in irony. I really, really want to post and I have 140 chars to work with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

That’s Jeff Turner and a newly-shorn Dustin Luther checking out Jeff’s camera<\/a> at last night’s BloggerCon event at the NAR Convention in Las Vegas. The event was a lot of fun for me, much more fun than I had anticipated, but we were just so much waxed fruit to the NAR, a minor constituency to be placated.<\/p>\n

So be it. A year ago, there was nothing of our world at the NAR Convention. This year, amidst the pageantry for MS FrontPage and MS Publisher, Dustin Luther spoke on “Understanding Your Online Competition.” Seth Godin is speaking, too, although I think he might go over like The Great Gazoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And: So be it. What I was ruminating on, unable to post, was Jim Duncan’s optimistic take on working within the NAR<\/a>. My thoughts run in the other direction — working without<\/i> the NAR — and my honest belief is that the NAR is destined to go the way of the Typographer’s Union<\/a> — marching stoutly and steadfastly into an unlamented irrelevance. Sic semper tyrannosauris<\/i> — thus, ever, to dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

Organizations don’t change because they should. They don’t change because the world has changed on them. The don’t change because glib ideologues like me persuade them to embrace their better angels. Organizations change — if<\/i> they do — when they have to: When a sufficient power-bloc within the group forces a change or when a force from outside the group proves irresistible. Most dinosaurs change — to a state of perpetual demise — when they get hit by a meteor.<\/p>\n

Are we — the RE.net, the Web 2.0 world — are we that outside force for the NAR? Are we that meteor? Don’t kid yourself. We’re waxed fruit for now, up from barely negligible a year ago. But a year from now…?<\/p>\n

I live in a very long-term world, but I live Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quote comes from WorkHappy.net this morning. Yesterday — plane-bound, casino-bound, Twitter-bound — unable to post — I reflected upon why it’s all just so much waxed fruit — for now: Rusting in irony. I really, really want to post and I have 140 chars to work with. 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