Joi Joi Ito has an interesting post about the much-talked-about Creative Commons and BzzAgent relationship. I thought this paragraph was particularly interesting, given I’m navigating the switch from East Coast to West:
One of the things that I notice more and more these days is the Madison Avenue/Silicon Valley divide. All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin (I blogged about this earlier) is sort of Cluetrain Manifesto written in Madison Avenue-ese. They use completely different language but are beginning to talk about very similar things. If we’re going to reach those people who aren’t in our current self-selected community, we’re going to have to reach out to the offline and main stream media world. CC has been surprisingly successful considering our lack of expertise in this area, but I think we could do a lot more. I think it’s time to bridge this divide between the main stream media types and bloggers and one of the things we are going to have to do is cut each other some slack and try to learn instead of fight.