The Cluetrain Manifesto: 95 Theses
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1999 · web manifesto / pre-platform culture · original online
Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger published ninety-five theses arguing that networked markets are conversations — and that companies sounded absurd when they brought brochure voice into human rooms.
WHY IT STILL MATTERSBefore brands learned to cosplay authenticity and platforms industrialized “community,” Cluetrain caught the older web’s live wire: people talking to people across the machine, faster than institutions could sand the edges down.
Best opened when a brand account says “we hear you” and somehow makes the room colder.