The Cluetrain Manifesto Experiment

December 14th, 2009

Testing the Present’s Manifestations of the Past’s Future Predictions

As my own personal ode to the Cluetrain Manifesto, for its astonishing prescience, cojones and 10th anniversary, I’ve started to Tweet every last one of the 95 Theses. Not only that, I will include a link to a Web reference for each thesis. Not just any Web reference, but the first one that shows up on Google, no repeats.

#3

With Theses #2, for example, I included a link to the blogger who undertook a Cluetrain-a-Day earlier this year (hats off to Alex Hillman for his super duper idea, and I hope he enjoys the flattery. Well, OK, I had the idea before I knew that he had the idea but still, he had the idea first – or at least, before I did). Alex got him some bad-a$$ SEO so his blog series comes up first pretty often (teach me, O Wise One). The Cluetrain Wikipedia entry and the original Cluetrain Web site, of course, are regular high rankers, too. They’ll all get only one mention.

Should be interesting to see which 95 Web sites show up (or might I run out…?), and to participate in two great modern phenomena—search engine optimization and Twitter—while honoring some pretty powerful thinkers who knew all along.

Join in the fun.

Got a favorite thesis or two? Please comment! I’d love to hear from folks.

Testing the Present’s Manifestation of the Past’s Future PredictionsAs my own personal ode to the Cluetrain Manifesto, for its astonishing prescience, cojones and 10th anniversary, I’ve started to Tweet every last one of the 95 Theses. Not only that, I will include a link to a Web reference for each thesis. Not just any Web reference, but the first one that shows up on Google, no repeats.

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