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Published on 2009-05-20 03:25:00
With the fixation on success as means to an end I have to wonder, why have studied Phillipe of Macedon, the greatest of great orators? (Want proof of rhetoric? Study his son. *beat* Oh, sorry, I forgot you were ill-lit-rut: Alexander. Yaa, that Alexander. The power of his father's principled nature drove him mad. *shrug* Bummer ... I cudda advised him. You think you're benighted? How'bout that
Drinking the Koolaid: "Light and Love Delusion" as the new jingoism - Global Sensemaking
Published on 2008-12-03 00:08:00
*X-posted from my blog on http://GlobalSenseMaking.net*Micah Sifry quoted this in his post about the IntenseDebate deployment on Change.Gov:"I just wanted to say thank you for giving us a place to make our thoughts and comment heard. It's about time the government provide a centralized place for citizens to express their opinions where they feel they will be heard." [Emphasis added by him there.]
The Obama WhiteHouse - Civility, OpenDemocracy and Web2.0
Published on 2008-11-09 15:20:00
With Obama's massively successful campaign I've watched Web2.0 do what it does best: drive money. Now ... now what? Since the mid-70s I've been surveying the field as I tried to enable civil society with the best IT. And, as some of you know, the mid-70s was a pretty harsh time .. East Timor, apartheid coming to a head in South Africa ... harsh. This hard on the heels of the war in Vietnam ...
Clouds, Tags, and "User Innovation Toolkits"
Published on 2008-03-31 14:57:00
* cut/paste draft * A conversation with Ed Vielmetti and John Blyberg about patrons and superlibrarians - Jon Udell/blog.jonudell.net:"February 2, 2007: "Last fall, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I gave a talk entitled Superpatrons and Superlibrarians. Joining me for this week’s podcast are the two guys who inspired that talk. The superpatron is Ed Vielmetti, an old Internet hand who likes to mash up
Cat Out O'the Bag?
Published on 2008-03-31 10:51:00
*I've been in "stealth mode" for years ... cat definitely in the bag.* A while back I did a little online work for a guy on the other side of the Atlantic ... just helping him re-design the frontpage of his commercial site. Not rocket science, but not thumb-twiddling either. Thing is, he had no means of paying me. I don't have credit card, so paypal is out. So I decided to start the
Beyond Blogs: Conversation in Motion
Published on 2008-03-30 13:30:00
Predendum: (Ohhhhh I know that's not a word ... give it a break ... this is being added later, but at the head ... so it's not appended and as addendum ... get it? prepended addendum? *sigh* fohget it.) Rereading the body of this after reading Ed Yourdon's thoughtful composition got me remembering when things made sense because we had at least one foot on the ground at all times and both feet
Technorati: Discussion about “ Design and the Elastic Mind”
Published on 2008-02-25 19:28:00
Technorati: Discussion about “ Design and the Elastic Mind”: "Design and the Elastic Mind" Today at 6:21pm Bernard clicked Share", posting a link caught at technorati.com ... "Kotke.org brings the shiet: ''Design and the Elastic Mind'' from MoMa. Which likewise brings the shiet. And technorati /is/ the shiet for bringin' this shiet!" And on another hand, an early site by a friend from my
Nip, Tuck, Filter, Sort - Managing RSS Feeds
Published on 2008-02-24 15:38:00
A couple of days ago someone I know from Twitter blogged that he skims through 2,500 blog posts each morning. *cough* ... yaaa, ok, sure. *cough* Just now I came across "tell me how you manage your attention. What tools and techniques do you use to stay on top of your river of information? in Sam Lawrence's "GoBigAlways", and that got me thinking about what I'd done recently for feeds. My "
Web3.0? Just makes sense. Enantiodromeia ...
Published on 2008-02-24 00:40:00
... see "100th Monkey" A right spooky coincidence: within an hour of commiting a comment on RWW's "Web3.0" post I came across an astonishing resonance in another blog: thanks to Richard McManus's (quite unrelated) tweet I found myself in "one company, ten brands: lessons from retail for tech companies" at Danah Boyd's "apophenia :: making connections where none previously existed". ("Making
Love an idea? Then try to kick holes in it
Published on 2008-02-21 23:59:00
Part of my reply to Alex's "Think opposite, or keep on dreaming?" (Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior) Your "and my thoughts were uncontrollably unleashed" about the wash of web platforms ties in directly with something I started working on yesterday: so many of the people I talk to seem submerged in a tsunami of information day in