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O’Reilly Network: What We’re Doing When We Blog
Thorough look at the form. One on daypop right now!
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Halfway between the poem and the paramecium
The dream is halfway between the poem and the paramecium. Like the paramecium, it is a product of nature, created not by man’s will. But like the poem, it is a product of art, dependent upon man’s imagination.
-James Hillman
Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.
– James Hillman
Mt. Lyford Horse Treks
I have been doing quite a bit of work on the Horse Trek site this weekend. Kate — looking great here this morning working with a couple of new horses.
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I have just completely re-written the about page for this blogging effort!
Educational Blogging
policies: seminar in the novel, 2002
From the site:
Weblogging Each student maintains a Weblog, or “blog”, for their work in this class. These must be updated weekly, by each Wednesday by midnight. Each blog consists of two parts:
1. A reflection on the reading for that week, at least one paragraph in length
2. An annotation hyperlink to a relevant Web resource.You may use Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/), or produce your own site in your own Webspace.
Wired has a story that makes this sound like something very new. Bryan has been going on for a while! Students make a good job of it too!
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In his latest work, Une politique de civilisation*, Edgar Morin develops the views on the state of the world which he had already outlined in Terre-Patrie, and proposes a reform of politics and our way of thinking, to take us beyond the multi-faceted, global crisis we are currently experiencing.
A new holistic theory of action for our time? I have seen it put that way…
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Dan has a lot to say about David Weinberger’s book, and has some good quotes:
This is the Web’s nature, for everything on it was put there by a human being for a reason. In building a site, we are saying that we find this topic interesting and we think others will also. Sites that work make manifest their passion. So, of course the Web inevitably is a plenum of places that have meaning and matter at least to someone.
David Weinberger
Having found Dan’s site earlier today, I find he has a lot of good stuff there. Added him to my list of blogs (should appear soon on the left.) His series of Writings are insightful and pleasant to read.
The quote above is from David Weinberger’s new book, “Small Pieces Loosely Joined”. Here is the book’s site, has chapters online.
The quote makes me realise how the web is as I have often said, a mirror – but it is one selected and filtered by people and what they find meaningful. Obvious, but it is one way that the world is different from the virtual world “everything on it was put there by a human being for a reason”. The link to the book is great to have… more on that to come.
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A great untold story of our time is the staggering privatization and abuse of dozens of resources that we collectively own. The plunder is widespread,affecting public lands, the broadcast airwaves, the Internet, the public domain of knowledge and creativity, publicly funded medicines, and even our genes. As companies quietly seize our common wealth, however, our government often fails to protect us, sometimes actually giving away our common assets.
I have not sen any full reviews of this book. Looks promising – good title 🙂