Quite a day of connecting in meatspace with cyber colleagues. This morning it was a conversation with Marcelo Vieta at Bojangles on Denman Street in Vancouver. Marcelo is putting together a Master’s thesis on blogging using a phenomenological framework to look at the role of users and technology in the creation of online community. He’s doing research on bloggers and if you’re in Vancouver and you think about this stuff, you should get in touch with him so he can include you in his research. The conversations alone are worth it. We talked for an hour about truth and why …
Michael Herman at GlobalChicago.NET has spruced up his collection of invitation resources, in support of Open Space Technology meetings. Michael is my own invitation inspiration.
Good old whiskey river: As we are already that which we seek, all that is needed is a 180 degree turn to look one’s self in the eye. But the courage needed to turn to face the Void or the ‘Faceless’ is far more than most of us possess. So we manufacture fantasy worlds of power, magic and the paranormal, and blissful flights to describe what we think enlightenment might be rather than truly facing its shattering nature. It’s another way to talk about what happened to my friend Doug. When I think about Emergent Democracy, and I confess that …
Over at the comments to this post at Wealth Bondage, The Happy Tutor issues an invitation to me, and it’s one I am thrilled to accept: Waiting for Democracy to Emerge is very depressing, can you help us think how we might be more enaged? What line of thought led you to your own choices? Today’s post, inspired as it is from The Unconquerable World by Jonathan Schell will deal with the thought of Vaclav Havel, Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt, and will end with a nice story about a Mohawk student at the University of British Columbia who …
In the process of redesigning my website I have added a couple of papers on power and freedom at the “Papers and Publications” page. Feel free to peruse.