My buddy John Dumbrille hits on a nice, succinct argument for human scale on the web: “As humans and communities are organically linked – their evolution and decay is interdependent – it seems web communities mirror this very well, better than, say, super-sites that pump out syndicated content; and they are, consequently, more satisfying. I think it’s a mistake to see & market sites as independent destinations, just as it’s a mistake to define a human being without the context of his/her relationships.” Sweet.
Blogger let me down lately. Not able to FTP for a while…no clue why. We seem to be back in the saddle. There are a bunch of new blogs adorning the blogroll these days. In fact the blogroll is an eclectic mess, and the more I look at it, the more I love it. I have it set to list the blogs randomly every time the browser loads my page, so there’s always a new treat at the top of the list. At any rate, here are a couple of the newer additions: City Comforts Blog a blog about urban …
Today I finally received my HaidaBucks T-shirt in smart black with the logo and name prominant. And on Friday I ran into Cliff Fregin at the Vancouver airport, a friend and one of the original owners of Haida Bucks. He tells me all’s well that ends well, that Starbucks backed down and Haida Bucks has withstood the legal onslaught. They issued a press release in August stating: Lately, the coffee in Masset, a small town on the remote island of Haida Gwaii, tastes especially sweet. That’s because HaidaBucks, a small indigenous-owned coffee house and restaurant located there, is savouring its …
Sidney, BC The Dymaxion Map of Buckminster Fuller From The Buckminster Fuller Institute John Cage interviewed many years ago on public television, about his friend Buckminster Fuller: I think the ideas of both Buckminster Fuller and of Marshall McLuhan about the world as a single place are essential to the possibility of our solving problems now. And will always be at the basis of a good life, if we have one, on this earth. In other words, seeing the earth not as a plurality of sovereignties, as Bucky said, but as a single place. For me, it became clear when …
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Here for the annual conference of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO) where I am facilitating two Open Space sessions. Today’s is about new direction in economic development and tomorrow we will look at caring for our communities and the role of economic development in healing First Nations communities. The proceedings from both of these conversation will be online somewhere (probably mirrored at OpenSpaceWorld.Net where the conversation can continue. At any rate, it’s one of those conference where one runs into old friends and colleagues from around the country, including folks I was …