I like "Emergentzy." Easy to remember and probably easy to spell.
"The system's current state of emergentzy." And it could be "emergentzied" and "emergentzing." -T On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Parks, Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > >> A column that, whether the author realizes it or not, reflects emergence. >> (Hmmmm. Do we need a term the equivalent of "Realpolitik"? Realemerg? Or >> whatever the German term would be?) -tj >> > > Emergentzy? Or is that too Slavic? > > According to Google language services, the literal translation of > Emergence Politics would be Auftauchen Politik, which sounds way to > complicated to be a catch-phrase. > > Back to the NYT column - the author seems to conveniently ignore Howard > Dean and Ron Paul. They both have had great success at on-line fund-raising > - but since they're from the Hilary generation, they didn't really take > advantage of the networking. Paul's supporters, in particular, seem to have > had to do the networking on their own. > > One aspect of the on-line, social network culture that the author (also of > the wrong generation based on his picture alone) ignores is the ephemereal > nature of social networks. Who remembers sixdegrees or the many other > social networks that existed long before myspace or facebook? They were all > fads or just unlucky - some factor (butterfly wings in the web?) just didn't > happen to push them over the threshold. Heck, even the current social > networking sites are being supplanted. > > Another aspect the author ignores is the fickleness of on-line social > networks. All it takes is a catchy rumour and suddenly the favourite son > (or daughter) will be cast-off and ignored. > > -- > Ray Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Consilient Heuristician Voice:505-844-4024 > ATA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 > http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 > http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 > > > > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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