Late in getting to this, but still immensely worthy of note is the freshly reinvented blogtank™:
Only a week old and already we've outgrown the garage. Huge and effusive thanks to the genius of Marek J who pulled an heroic all-nighter to relocate our internationally renowned global consulting firm, thinktank and bike shop into much funkier digs.
Not a lot happening above the surface just yet - we've popped down under radar for a short while as we marshal our meaning. But watch this space...
For those outside the context of the early blogtank™ threads as the meme first arose, I know you may be wondering what fresh hell blogtank™ actually is.
What it *is*
...is recruiting.
(To quote liberally, with a little added colour, from our founder and chief imagineer:) In the spirit of the best collaborative relationships (think: X-men, A-Team, Ocean's Eleven) blogtank is an experiment in focusing the special powers, knowledge and talents of the world's blogizens to create a new force for creative good, thought development, problem solving and debate on a wide range of topics including (but by no means limited to):
World Peace
Which is best Coke or Pespi?
Is document imaging really dead?
What makes a good mobile phone?
Where's the best Italian restaurant in Paris?
Can the notion of a free press survive in the face of ongoing media convergence/consolidation?
Why does Lotus Notes randomly chew up email attachments?
What's wrong with QWERTY and should we fix it?
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
And all manner of things...
More pragmatic version: blogtank™ is a team blog (a clusterblog?) where an amazing collection of the best minds in blogdom can get togther to brainstorm, develop solutions to problems, give birth to ideas and generally read the riot act to the rest of the world.
An issue, idea, problem or whatever is posted / requested as a blog entry, each with a category e.g. Business, Web, Global Peace, Best Apple Pie Recipes and what have you. We then use comments on each post to develop, trash, create, discuss, solve, grieve as appropriate. Our findings (if we ever get any) will then be made available as independent research for...er...we haven't worked that bit out yet - let's just go with: for the good of all humankind.
In the future, the good people of blogtank™ will be contracted by willing parties to opine, solve or research absolutely anything we want to. There may even be some money, there will certainly be community. And cake (I think there should always be cake. Don't you?)
blogtank. collective genius.™
Only a week old and already we've outgrown the garage. Huge and effusive thanks to the genius of Marek J who pulled an heroic all-nighter to relocate our internationally renowned global consulting firm, thinktank and bike shop into much funkier digs.
Not a lot happening above the surface just yet - we've popped down under radar for a short while as we marshal our meaning. But watch this space...
For those outside the context of the early blogtank™ threads as the meme first arose, I know you may be wondering what fresh hell blogtank™ actually is.
What it *is*
...is recruiting.
(To quote liberally, with a little added colour, from our founder and chief imagineer:) In the spirit of the best collaborative relationships (think: X-men, A-Team, Ocean's Eleven) blogtank is an experiment in focusing the special powers, knowledge and talents of the world's blogizens to create a new force for creative good, thought development, problem solving and debate on a wide range of topics including (but by no means limited to):
World Peace
Which is best Coke or Pespi?
Is document imaging really dead?
What makes a good mobile phone?
Where's the best Italian restaurant in Paris?
Can the notion of a free press survive in the face of ongoing media convergence/consolidation?
Why does Lotus Notes randomly chew up email attachments?
What's wrong with QWERTY and should we fix it?
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
And all manner of things...
More pragmatic version: blogtank™ is a team blog (a clusterblog?) where an amazing collection of the best minds in blogdom can get togther to brainstorm, develop solutions to problems, give birth to ideas and generally read the riot act to the rest of the world.
An issue, idea, problem or whatever is posted / requested as a blog entry, each with a category e.g. Business, Web, Global Peace, Best Apple Pie Recipes and what have you. We then use comments on each post to develop, trash, create, discuss, solve, grieve as appropriate. Our findings (if we ever get any) will then be made available as independent research for...er...we haven't worked that bit out yet - let's just go with: for the good of all humankind.
In the future, the good people of blogtank™ will be contracted by willing parties to opine, solve or research absolutely anything we want to. There may even be some money, there will certainly be community. And cake (I think there should always be cake. Don't you?)
blogtank. collective genius.™
