Openness: Maybe I do have a clue!

Tim Bray made a recent reference to the cluetrain manifesto
Looking at it confirmed my suspicions that my own musings on Openness were nothing new... and that I was on to something. To quote the opening paragraph on the website:

A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies.

I may be alone in my thoughts still, but it's nice to know I'm not completely alone in my thinking.

(Synchronitic aside: I did a double take when I saw the name of one of the authors. Christopher Locke, eh? Having read the Ender series by Orson Scott Card, I think this is just the sort of thing Peter Wiggin would write about ;-)