I googled "Hacking Complexity" (as a quoted string) and only got 8 hit, 
and only one two occurences were used as titles rather than verbs...

In the spirit of Wil McCarthy's novel "Hacking Matter", I suggest 
precisely that title for a book title.

I should also mention (and I've talked privately with a few of you) 
that Larry Archibald, the early publisher of Stereophile magazine 
approached me about 5 years ago about his desire to start a magazine 
that essentially featured all things "Infomesa and SFI".   He has a 
reputation for high quality, professional-amatuer publishing...
Larry brought Stereophile to NM nearly 25 years ago...  and he sees 
(saw?) the potential for something similar in this world...

I told him the time was not quite ripe, that as things evolved, I'd let 
him know when they might be.   At the time Popular 
Complexity/Non-linear Science, etc had peaked (as most of the 
Employment sections in your resumes will indicate?) and things were 
sliding toward a precipice of loss of financial, if not popular 
support.

To whatever extent, we are now coming up out of the "bottome" this 
might be a good time to engage him.

What do you think about a bimonthly slick glossy (maybe following on 
the heels of a book) at the general technical level of Scientific 
American?

Maybe there would be some motivation (call it pay and publication 
record) for all of us to take our well thought-out contributions here 
and turn them into something publishable in a more "Popular" venue.

Thoughts?
- Steve


On Jul 30, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:

> I'll install MediaWiki on the Friam site unless someone has a better 
> idea of how to start collecting content.
>


> -
> From: "Roger Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: 7/30/06 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM book
>
> Hmm, perhaps we should start with a "Complexity Hackers Dictionary" 
> wiki?
>
> -- rec --


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