The revolution is howling
It is that time in the cycle of life when people are talking about revolutions again and they are happening. This morning at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff referred to the Arab Spring brought about by Social Media and warned we might be seeing a Corporate CEO Spring very soon as it seems most are out of touch with their employees, their clients, and their world.
Since I had flown out of New Orleans on August 29th, the sixth anniversary of the Federal Flood, I was feeling somewhat revolutionary myself as in honor of the date, I was reading Howling in the Wires, which Mark Folse had generously brought over to my house not but just a few weeks ago. How appropriate that Howling is a collection of dispatches from the diaspora of 2005 and how raw and radical were those missives of people who could no longer follow convention but instead turned to howling from all points available.
How wrong to think that a revolution hasn’t already happened.
I sat this morning in Cafe de la Presse before seeing Marc, having checked into the hotel (I’ve been at a friend’s) this morning, and I had a bowl of latte and a few missives for breakfast. It steeled me for heading to the conference where I hoped to uncover trends about mobile, social and the cloud, little did I know I was headed somewhere which would confirm what I already know.
The revolution is now, howling from every corner near and far. ¡Viva la Revolución!
