Off to Saskatchewan for a week, where last week a spot near Prince Albert recorded a temperature of -53.2C and was noted as the coldest place on earth that day. Blogging may be light. In Meadow Lake it got down to -60 with the wind chill. Jesus. What the hell am I doing? Anyway, to keep up to date while my teeth are cracking, why not subscribe to my handy RSS feed? I think at -60 light freezes, so the fibre optics may not be working, but if something does make it down the pipe, you’ll be the first to …
Linkage: Large collection of books bay and about Gandhi online The Satir Change Model. Via ourhouse Ten traps for facilitators Math and physics visualizers. Via boing boing Joy Harjo blogs the passing of James Welch Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database The 1919 Molasses Disaster via Reinvented A collection of Balanced Scorecard Methodology links Digiquaria: a digital aquarium Lovely review of BBC Symphony Orchestra’s John Cage performance via Brian’s Culture Blog
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 …
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 …