{"id":349,"date":"2008-09-06T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=349"},"modified":"2008-09-06T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T14:01:29","slug":"fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m struggling under the weight of my new found fame courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/09\/05\/us_cto_poll_results\/page2.html\">the reg<\/a>.  Yes the witty person <em>(sarcastic git)<\/em> who responded to the reg&#8217;s poll to find America&#8217;s CTO was me.<br \/>\nMy email is reproduced below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;As you don&#8217;t provide Al Gore as a candidate to reinvent the internet, Siegfried and Roy are the only sensible option. Another alternative is a virtual CTO representing a hive mind of random editors. If only the IETF made RFCs available as anonymous wikis! They SHOULD do this.<br \/>\nOr a reality TV show where each of the candidates has to respond to various IT challenges like formatting a table correctly in Word or improving BGP. It&#8217;s a serious position so the selection process should be rigorous&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an email subscriber to numerous IETF mailing lists I think my suggestion may not improve the efficiency of the organisation but it might give implementors who DELIBERATELY misinterpret the specifications for commercial advantage an excuse. They could simply claim &#8220;MUST&#8221; used to be &#8220;MAYBE&#8221;. Which leads me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mememoir.org\/\">mememoir.org<\/a> which seeks to remove unattributable modifications which pollute the wikisphere.  Neat idea. There&#8217;s an uneasy tension between preserving anonymity to protect well meaning truth promoters from pressure groups <em>(for legal reasons I can&#8217;t think of any off hand)<\/em> and protecting commercial puppets who use a public encyclopaedia as a platform for spreading rumours &amp; FUD. <em>(again for legal reasons, examples escape me)<\/em><br \/>\nAnyway, I&#8217;m off to sign autographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m struggling under the weight of my new found fame courtesy of the reg. Yes the witty person (sarcastic git) who responded to the reg&#8217;s poll to find America&#8217;s CTO was me. My email is reproduced below. &#8220;As you don&#8217;t provide Al Gore as a candidate to reinvent the internet, Siegfried and Roy are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}