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Following my last posting’s talk about mashups, I was inspired to try something a little different.
As I’ve been traveling around the world telling people (and writing about for the last 11 years), we’ve got an online social and cultural connection revolution happening right now before our eyes. And since every revolution needs an anthem, what the heck, I thought it might be fun to try penning one.
If someone want to try recording it (you’ll know the tune in a moment), I’d love to hear it done…you could try a more PG-rated version of the great-but-kinda-naughty Beatles-NIN mashup available on YouTube right here.
So here are the lyrics….
Click Together (an online community anthem; to be sung to the tune of “Come Together”)
Here come old *H@Kk_Ur!*
He go surfin’ all nightly
He got Flickr eyeball he read global braindump
He got ten servers in his big RV
Must be influential he just post what he please
He shop all naked he got eBay football
He got Twitter finger he one Second Lifer
He say “I friend you, you friend me”
All is information and It got to be free
Click together online community
He blogospheric he big Technorati
He got Google goggles he shoot YouTube picture
He got cloudware clickstream on his page
Look him up in Facebook he make maximum wage
Click together online community
He carpal tunnel he wear Warcraft diaper
He got wiki widget he one porno filter
He say “Web plus Web is Two Point Oh”
Got to be a broker he Net portfolio
Click together online community
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December 18, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hi Robert,
this is great fun! This http://www.soundsnap.com/ could be of help for creating the anthem - Eventually fragments glue together.
And thanks for the wonderful doctoral symposium @ the ACR. It was my first and so inspirational!
best wishes,
ben
December 18, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Thanks, Ben! I’ll check it out. This has been stuck in my head for the last couple of days. With the Nine Inch Nails version attached….eeek.
December 18, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Rob,
I think you ought to put together a band and this should complement the poetry reading at the next CCT conference. I’ll volunteer for keyboards, but you need to find the roadies… Sarah
December 18, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Great idea. In the digital world, all you need is a [computer] keyboard…and away you go.
January 5, 2009 at 7:02 pm
rob, let’s talk to Mel H. about this–seriously. A mash-up with you singing the lead would work! You singing/on lead, Russ on bass, Craig T. on drums (I can totally see Craig in a Sgt. Pepperesque outfit) John S. on rhythm. Although Brian Epstein is no longer available, I’m betting we could get Shelby Hunt for road manager…