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Just make this annoying thing go away.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Hey Julien,
Just had a quick peek at the doc – looks interesting. Inspired by the Cluetrain Manifesto I take it…?
Mat
February 7th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
nice work, dude. but i still think the kids of today are idiots.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
how can they not be, listening to all that rapping music?
February 7th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Lovin’ the design – did you do it all yourself?
February 7th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
naw, dude, they do that. how awesome is that? it’s so great you can just write a thing, and they make it look good.
February 8th, 2007 at 3:44 am
Hey Julien (and the others):
Love the dokument. I started translating it to german this morning (as discussed) and I’m about half way through. We’ll put it into a nifty PDF on monday and notify you and the world about the german version …
Thanks for writing it!
Tom
February 9th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Love the document. I think the reason the big guys are scared is that they are not even partially fluent in the language. Nor do they take seriously the people who are, for the most part. They like the way they are, and are not interested in audience participation, to their own detriment.
For a long time in the US, ads and politics have been geared towards appealing to the lowest common denominator. And despite years of critique of US education, we have a well educated population who is pretty good at smelling the BS. Sure, sometimes any group wants to believe the lie, the convenient truth, but companies will get much farther when they appeal to intelligence, logic, and our higher values than assuming it’s all about the lowest and basest needs.
February 26th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
[...] Le copain et iconoclaste Julien Smith, viens de mettre en ligne un document lumineux, Keep it real. Ce document est disponible via son blogue qui pointe vers le site ChangeThis.com>. Bravo Julien pour ce manifeste! D’ailleurs, Julien est aussi l’une des personnes les plus vraies que je connaisse. We are not the suckers we always have been. [...]
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:42 am
Good to read, good to spread.
Pinko ain’t it?
July 4th, 2007 at 10:39 am
[...] If you’ve seen me at a conference, you’ll notice I very rarely talk about “voice,” “authenticity,” or any other subject you would consider to be related to my show. Instead, you hear me talk about marketing, about metrics, about Google. Why? [...]
June 5th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
its pretty uncanny to land on this page from stumbleuponi was just thinking about this exact thing last night. glad to see someone took the time to write about it. hope u have a good weekend!
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
[...] got an email from a Filipino reader of my early ChangeThis manifesto yesterday which I thought was worthy of an answer on this blog. Here’s the question: [...]