This weekend when Haiti's rebel's had gained control of virtually the entire island country of 8 million people the only city that remained in control by Aristide's forces was the capital Port-au-Prince.
Why hadn't the rebels successfully taken the city? Because the U.S. Government hoped they would slow down or stop their advances. You might wonder how the U.S. Government were in touch with or even contributing to orchestrating the rebel's strategy. Couldn't be farther from the truth.
[...] Philippe said he was not contacted by the United States, but read about the plea on the Internet.
"We don't want to have any problem with the international community," he said. "They have a good strategy to help Haitian people" -- namely a demand for Aristide to resign.[...]
At one time insurgent rebels looking to gloss their ego tuned in to the mother of news -- 24 hour news network CNN -- today it seems Haitian rebels tend to me a bit more technically savvy. That is, tuning into the world via the internet versus tuning out by watching television.
To be sure, television news is still king, while the internet makes its own advances. And whether or not the U.S. had anything to do with the recent mayhem in Haiti (and I doubt that they did) I do wonder why we haven't seen more coverage of the events leading up to the chaos online. So, like Michael Feldman, I wonder where are the Haitian blogs?
A few years ago when I was active in the company I co-founded, Wirestone, we competed in the internet professional services space, as it was called then. The biggest players included Razorfish, iXL, Sapient, Scient, Viant, agency.com, modem media and Organic.
Where are these companies today? Maybe 2 or 3 survived. But the biggest. The baddest. The most bloated. Started its life as US Web. Then they merged with a company called CKS. Some bright team inside this once great (and I use that term loosely) company came up wth the idea that it was time to change its name. And after that, the great decline began.
Ok. So this is one of those blog postings I typically avoid. If you're a first timer to The Digital Tavern please peruse by scrolling down or clicking categories. You'll get a better flavor of my writing and what I write about. But for now, I gotta give an update.
Why? Given the lack of activity in the last week I figure those regulars should at least know what's going on. First, it's pouring rain. Last week I had my car at the dealer for service for 2 1/2 days on regular service plus a warranty related thing to uncover some sort of misfiring on the punchy V6. Picked it up on Saturday. Saturday night the check engine light on, rough idling and then flashing in panic mode the check engine light kept me wondering whether the car was going to just quit. Poor thing. Took the car back at 6:30 am this morning. Looking like a nice day I set out on the motorcycle for my daily deeds. Bad move. By the time I was done with the deeds the sky opened up and cried. The tears caused my feet, pants and butt to get soaked.
This week holds a couple huge tastings for me. It's been a while since I've attended a tasting. So somehow there are two crammed into this week. First is an amazing list of 2000 Bordeaux. You name it first, second or cult growth of the best vintage in decades. That's Wednesday and I'll be sure to blog my tasting notes. Next is the who's who of California Cult Cabernets from the 1994 vintage. Should be incredible. Bloggable, too.
Hope my car is done and running right.
Travel? Looks like Chicago in a few weeks and a trip to Hong Kong and China in April Want to go to Portugal and Spain too. Who knows. Gotta check in with Tim and see what he's up to.
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