You can't have them compete on physical strength or speed or endurance. So...

Compete for a woman. Compare romantic chops a la Elimidate, Dismissed. Even Taildaters, with the rest of the superheroes kibbitzing in the video van. Wealth and a dark sense of humor vs. farm boy cheer and muscles.

Game show crossover. Guess prices, popular words, snippets from a college education, pop culture trivia.

Stock market picks. Managing a portfolio faster than speeding bullet vs. an industrialist's experience.

First to find Osama. Sleuthing vs. brute force.

Showtime at the Apollo Amateur Night. Let's see how those two white boys can entertain.

The SAT-II.

Sell the most Girl Scout cookies.

Win the election for Minnesota governor.

FoodTV's Iron Chef. Dueling kitchens, one theme, judges choose the best meal, in 90 minutes.

Nick Denton >

"Please let this be a sick joke: a eulogy for Gene Kan of Gnutella, on Yaroslav Faybishenko's site. Update: it was a sick joke, but by God. Gene's funeral was on Friday."

Gene's weblog since May. 
Eulogy by Yaroslav Faybishenko.  
Cory Doctorow. Andrew Baio. Sean Gallagher. Li Gong.
News.com. Forbes. Mercury News. Wired. Washington Post. K5. Reuters.

[aka obituaries a la blog]

The Project Initiation Stage defines scope, schedule, resources, and risks, and gets buy-in from stakeholders to go forward. The Project Initiation Kick Off Report is your roadmap for this stage. This template has four parts:

• Interview schedule, with dates, goals, and subjects
• Description of your "Objective and Scoping Workshop"
• Schedule of planned follow-up workshops and their deliverables
• Schedule for writing and presenting your Project Initiation Report

This your "plan for the project plan."

Klogging

Feedback is your lifeblood in drafting the PI Kick Off Report and throughout the PI stage. If you are getting started, now is a good time to:

1. Subscribe to the klogs of your project stakeholders.
2. Start new project channels.
• for yourself
• for external stakeholders (management, investors), and
• for the combined efforts of this stage's contributors. Perhaps a multiauthor synthetic feed.
3. Read about technography to make your interviews and workshops better. This includes having someone blog observations, findings, and other notes during the meeting, for immediate review afterward.
4. Publish your progress and revisions to the PI Kick Off Report on your klog.

Macdara MacColl's Conference Impressions: Outtakes from Communities 2000 EAST: A Strategic Thinkers Forum has a few good notes from that Basex conference. I especially liked the one about

communities
as complex adaptive systems
that enable innovation
through encouraging dissimilar people
to bump into each other.

She says it better.

This was two years' ago. Lots of those community vendors died or shifted markets. I liked her healthy skepticism of blogging as described by Dan Bricklin of Trellix :

"Most communication is of the mundane kind, and even if home pages are a good medium for mundane expressions of self, that doesn't make them a good strategic programming option for most companies. Trellix has created an excellent web-page authoring tool, chosen by community leaders like Tripod. But Trellix is struggling with figuring out where the future of their business lies. ISPs? Enterprises? KM? Trellix has a longer road to go than most companies to transform its offering into something obviously valuable to businesses."

I wonder if Macdara has picked up a copy of the Cluetrain Manifesto or Gonzo Marketing since then?