Acronym

Now that ASAE & The Center's annual meeting is over and the Boston Blog is winding down, I thought it was about time to get Acronym rolling again.

First of all, if you have not already done so, do check out the Boston Blog. I'm about 75 percent through it, and it really does have some good stuff in there—whether you were at the meeting or not. Because they did such a good job covering the meeting, and because I had my nose buried while developing the Daily Now, I'll only do one post on the meeting—sometime in the next few days.

Right now, however, I want to call attention to "5 to See" over in the right-hand column. Rather than have a very long blog roll, we put up five to check out with the notion to change it every so often. We'll be changing them soon, but before we did, I wanted to point out some of the interesting things on those blogs. So, here's my favorite post from the last week or so for each of the current "5 to See":

TomPeters! -- "It Depends on What the Meaning of 'Is' Is." I had to choose this one because it's probably my favorite line from the Clintonian era. It also encapsulates quintessential Peters to me: do something to shake it up.

The Long Tail -- "Peter Moore on Long Tail Gaming." Ostensibly it's about gaming. Take the seven points out of the gaming context, however, and you'll see some pretty powerful stuff.

Brand Autopsy -- "Businesses Gotta Be Confident." Brand Autopsy is a target-rich environment for a posting such as this. I chose this one, I think, because of an article that will appear in the October issue of Associations Now on associations facing attacks from techno-enabled malcontents.

Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Archtects -- "Kids Nowadays." These lists are always entertaining but, more importantly, drive home generational differences.

Loose Wire -- "An End to the Anonymity of Trash?" Yes, Big Brother's muscles are growing quite strong.