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And now it’s 2:15

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and it’s all weird. I wasn’t at home to change my clocks, so they’re all an hour slow, and anyhow I’m 3 hrs behind due to this wonderful Canadian invention, the Time Zone. I did find it interesting to note down which websites I visited first – this being my first look at any weblogs in a few days. I looked at mostly serious issues-oriented sites first – PeterMe, Zeldman (to whom I’ve neglected to send my condolences), CamWorld, and Evhead. Next were Montrealers – Ed’s nicely redesigned Calebos.org, Aaron’s site, and David’s. Last were honourary/former Montrealer Heather’s Harrumph and Derek Powazek‘s site. And now to bed. Because I have a very big meeting tomorrow with a man who might win a Nobel Prize for medicine soon – a huge figure we’re doing some work with. Nope, not intimidated at all.

I did have a moment

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to go back to re-read The Web is like Canada though, which was kind of bugging me all weekend. And I agree with Aaron and Cameron that the article is a) a little trite in saying the web is “like Canada” and, b) it is a little muddled. It was one of those articles that I enjoyed on first reading but stuck with me as somehow incomplete, unfinished, unfocused. I think Ed put it best, referring to the judgement one must make about management in the web business (I paraphrase): “would they just as soon be selling potatoes, if there were money in it?” I know in my case, they wouldn’t, and hence even older non-technical people have a perfectly appropriate and interesting business plan with the web at its heart. For others – not so much. But I’ve spoken to a ton of “real web people” who don’t have the first clue either, at least in a commercial sense.

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