OK, OK, Advisory Board was a bad choice of words
The worst problem about being the new kid in class is that I don't know who used to date whom, and who got drunk and passed out at the prom. So I sometimes (often? No, I think sometimes is closer) find myself saying something that makes everyone cringe. Paul Montgomery has pointed out that my saying there should be an advisory board to help add people to the memetracker blog I wanted to create was a bad choice of words, and he's absolutely right. I see that there has been so much angst over power trips, that any perception of an attempt to grab power is bound to rub people the wrong way. I should have realized that. What I meant was that just having a few people participate was not a good idea, and having anyone who can write a script that handles RSS may also be too broad. So having a few people help arbitrate seemed like a good idea. I have to keep being reminded that the top ranks of the blogosphere is nothing like the kumbaya creed it espouses, and power plays are assumed by all actions. Paul is also right that it should be a wiki. So does anyone want to create a wiki on memetracking and make it available? Having made the suggestion, I will politely back into the corner where I belong.


