I enjoyed pulling together the first set so much, here goes the 2nd:
Punk Rock gave a voice to disaffected youth. It spawned fashion
trends and music genres. But it was a specific taste. Punk music is
not for everyone. But the Internet is for everyone. And it is vitally, desperately
important. James Moore calls it the "connective tissue" of the "second
superpower" of world opinion in The Second Superpower Rears Its Beautiful Head.
Click of the Light / Start of the Dream Throughout the album, there's a sense of generations having been handed
a very bad blueprint concerning life, love, and meaning, up to their
necks in false covenants; generations now trying fitfully to grieve the
loss of wisdom, lament lost time, and gather together what goodness
remains amid the risk of losing each other to vampires and a sleep
epidemic. Think "Rock Album as Exorcism.
Seeing the Possibilities Our lives are all too short not to share
what and who we know so the world can profit and the journey to
sustainibility can be shortened.?
So wrote social entrepreneur and co-founder of the International Business Leaders Forum, Robert Davies in a blog post written on May 14th this year, titled ?Why do I blog??. Just over three months later, on August 18th, aged 56, he would lose his battle against cancer.
Professor Theodore Zeldin
thinks that life is a search for people. It?s a shame that all too
often we find out about amazing people when it is too late to meet
them.
I read "look what our church is doing" accounts in
newsletters, but don't hear the invariably messy follow-ups. We get
the "victory" stories over sin and depravity, but no one publishes
books called, Wups, I'm Totally Messed Again. Yet, that's
where the stories of my actual life are. We don't like our stories
open-ended. So we clean up our stories, and act like they're finished.
They're not.
We like resolution. But we don't live in
resolution-time. Forgive me for ever giving the impression otherwise,
that I believe myself fully resolved, fully arrived, somehow finished.
The story isn't over.
Community Roles In considering the nature of open source communities that gather
around various Free software commons, I often find I need to
distinguish between the different roles people play. It's common to
characterise community members as either "developers" (the "open
source" worldview emphasises this) or "users" (the "Free software"
worldview does this). But it's increasingly clear that neither approach
is sufficient.
As I've watched various community engagements by various
companies and individuals, and discussed this with various people (most
recently Luis Villa), it seems to me that there are four different roles. These are:
- Originators (originating co-developers) - people who co-develop a particular Free software commons using open source licenses and norms;
- Extenders (extending co-developers) - people
who co-develop software that builds on or aggregates the work of
Originators, for example making extensions, plug-ins, localisations and
distributions;
- Deployer-developers - people who take the work of Initiators and Extenders and configure and customise them for deployment;
- Users - people who use - and often pay for - the work of Deployer-developers and put it to productive use.
Countdown Special Comment: You have no remaining credibility about Iraq, sir
And there it is, sir. We?ve caught you.
Your goal is not to bring some troops home ? maybe ? if we let you have your way now;
Your goal is not to set the stage for eventual withdrawal;
You are, to use your own disrespectful, tone-deaf word, playing at
getting the next Republican nominee to agree to jump into this
bottomless pit with you, and take us with him, as we stay in Iraq for
another year, and another, and another, and anon.
watch it all
and finally, sit back & watch Marching Band Plays Radiohead.
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