Turncoat Politics

Fw: Online Publishing Insider: Q&A With Guy Kawasaki

Let’s see if this even sends right. It will probably just make my email available to the world and I will receive a deluge of spam. Segue. Think about the idea that if you make yourself available to any open social result you can gain a modicum of privacy. In the attached article- again, who knows at this point if Tumblr will organize it in any meaningful way- what I like about Guy Kawasaki is that he talks about the only way to find digital protection is to hit a “critical mass.” That for your idea to not be stolen, tweaked, morphed, etc., you need it to be adopted on a wide scale (my words not his). He calls it a catch-22. I call it the way things are. In the world of creativity I’ve always found that the BEST creatives are the ones who give it away. Why? Because there is always another great idea. The ones you want to protect you advance and produce at such a rate that other people, even if they wanted to steal it, can’t keep up. Should interactive creative be any different? Jay-Z throws a barb in one of his songs where he prompts his coat-tail riders who credit his success to their efforts to ‘make another ‘Hov.’ He’s got a point. This stream of consciousness could be better organized but I am on a flight from NY to SF and editing is too hard on the BB. Who gives a shit anyway- I talked about Guy Kawasaki and Jay-Z in one post!