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So who's Sancho Panza?
May 09, 2006
Steve Gillmor, Web 2.0's Don Quixote, drags me into his latest logorrheic tilt at linkmills. The scary thing is, I'm starting to understand what he's saying, enough, anyway, to catch its essential hippie quixotry. We're at Altamont, Steve. Stop pretending it's Woodstock.
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If this is Altamont, then who are the Stones? More importantly, who are the Angels?
Posted by: Robert W. Anderson at May 9, 2006 12:51 PM
Come on, Robert, can't you see it: The innocents crowd around for free content only to be bludgeoned by thugs disguised as angels.
Keith! Keith!
Posted by: Nick Carr at May 9, 2006 04:57 PM
I don't get it -- is Dave Winer one of the Angels, or is he Wavy Gravy? And does that make you Ramblin' Joe and the Fish?
Posted by: Mathew Ingram at May 9, 2006 09:02 PM
Country Joe.
Ramblin' Jack.
Posted by: Nick Carr at May 9, 2006 09:35 PM
what the bloody hell was he going about? I'm willing to bet quite a lot of "link credits" that he was fucked-up stoned as he wrote this post.
Posted by: Idan at May 10, 2006 10:33 AM
Nick - if you understand what he is saying, could you post the translation? Because I sure don't.
Posted by: J. V. DeLong at May 10, 2006 04:00 PM
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