[OT] TV, Internet, and Democracy

[JoeHill]

Christopher Browne left a post-it on the fridge:

> On 5/25/07, John Van Ostrand <john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 09:56 -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:  
> > > I may be sorry to mention this, but an excellent example of this mistake
> > > (IMO) was the reaction of some on the community to the Microsoft Vista
> > > launch. Stand on the corner across the street, demonstrate, inflate a
> > > big penguin, and hand out CDs. It certainly made the participants feel
> > > good (look how many brochures we burned through!) and was great for peer
> > > recognition (participants later judged the event a success because
> > > photos of it found their way onto social websites). But the net real
> > > effect of that event, to get more open source use in Toronto, was near
> > > zero. Make no mistake, this event was done for the benefit of the people
> > > doing it, not the target audience -- it served a purpose, to be sure,
> > > but not the one stated.  
> >
> > It's unfair to say that the Vista launch demonstration was ineffective
> > because it had little effect. Virtually all individual ads have little
> > effect. It's the sum of many ads that make the difference. The more
> > people that see the inflated penguin pop-up, the more they will think of
> > it when they see Linux. It's reinforcement.  
> 
> No, I think Evan is right about this. 

No, I think Evan has a pathological fixation, cannot let go of something that
happened 4 months ago, and is in need of serious help, (much unlike me) ;)

I didn't check, but did 'Ubuntu Fanboy' come up yet?

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