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So I just logged into the ISF portal at Kafien and it looks like someone has had the brilliant idea of piping the montreal meet-ups RSS feed onto the portal page.

I had no idea I lived in a city full of such diverse hobby groups. I mean I always knew I was a kind of reclusive shut-in who spends too much time working/slacking (or slorking, which is a wicked combination of both, I am slorking right now for example) and needs to get out more.. but looking at this wild assortment of free time activities. Dude, do I ever need to get a life;

Check it, I could be a member of any one of the following groups;

wow. I just got an email about the all-male roster of (another) business 2.0 conference. It's not the maleness I necessarily care about, it's the hella-boring hella-offensive PR language. Not in a political correctness kinda way, in a who writes a tagline like;

"Innovate - accelerate - dominate"

...without having to put duct tape over their mouths to keep from harfing every time they read it, kinda way. The only reason I can keep my lunch down is because I haven't eaten it yet.

I can just see the makers of this jewel of corporate ass-speak now, sitting around some faux walnut table that is far to large for the number of people using it, with some open laptops that are there more for show than any function. Some little nebbishkeit is saying" Okay guys we're going to have to really get creative here what are we trying to say with our brand?" And then guy number two who wears pink ties to prove he's not afraid of his own latent homosexuality and that he's 'plugged in' says; "We're going to innovate!" and the mean shark-like one who really *only cares* about money says "Innovate is to 2006."He says (thinking of the new car he just bought and all the payments he has to make); "We're going to accelerate!" and finally, the biggest neck of them, even though they all kind of have skinny necks, the one who was on third string football and went into the tech business because he couldn't pass is LSATS says; "We're going to dominate!"

Jane Eyre would think blogging is so declasse.

I can't believe I still haven't finished either of my papers, and I got the curse so now I am soooo.....tired, and my laser-beam intellect of Saturday night has turned into a soft-boiled egg of confusion, "what am I writing about again?"

Luckily Time is here to entertain us all with a story of how bloggers are the person of the year for 2006.

It's ironic that my final papers are about how Myspace is a giant scam, and the vernacular Bible led to the de-sacralization of the word. I think perhaps blogging is leading to the de-sacralization of the power of the mass. I hate the thought that I make up even a billionth part of Times person of the year, it makes my mojo run cold.

C5 Over at Brain Dregs thinks I was painting with too broad strokes in my possibly over-amped screed about Take back the Tech..

It's true I was probably getting a little hot under the collar about the project and it didn't help anyone, but it sure felt good. ;)

And it started a debate, which I have been missing from my technofeminism lately, I hope this continues.