Is Steve Gillmor the James Joyce of the blogosphere?

I've never had the guts to tackle Ulysses but if I have to wade my way through another Steve Gillmor dissertation I'll probably be up for the challenge. Is it a brilliant ploy by the Attention evangelist to ensure we devote 110% of that scarce resource to deciphering his messages or is he blinding us with bullshit? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt because his mischievous sense of humour ensures that the Gillmor Gang is always an entertaining listen.

However, while I like to think that I know a thing or two about RSS, OPML, AJAX and other Web 2.0 buzzwords du jour, when it comes to Attention and Gestures Steve leaves me scratching my head -

"Finally, to gestures. If attention is true, then what now? If Office is dead, then what replaces it? The inforouter. How does that work? Poorly, at first. Poorly in the sense that the river of news is poor. Poor in the sense that when everyone can have an executive information system for the price of a connection, then how do we make paradise function more efficiently? Poor like the lowest paid millionaire at Google. Poor in the sense that every client is a rich client. Not poor, just uneducated."

Huh? I mean WTF? Next time Steve please listen to Seth - "more simplicity, to get to the underlying fundamentals". But do hold onto that sense of humour ;-)

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