I wonder if Google's Knol project may be useful to publish some of the FRIAM and sfComplex writings under a group authorship. See: http://tinyurl.com/56eynp and http://knol.google.com/k#
-Stephen --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.Redfish.com my del.icio.us links: http://del.icio.us/redfishgroup 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 mobile: (505)577-5828 office: (505)995-0206 London: +44 (0) 20 7993 4769 > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicholas Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FRIAM] Announcing the Complexity Noodlers Corner > > As many of you know, I have been impatient with FRIAM for > years because so much good stuff gets lost. Well, not LOST > strictly, but certainly packed down in the midden. I long for > a medium in which the good stuff gets saved, and built upon, > and ultimately perhaps turned into articles or books! [Hey! I > am an Old Media Guy.] About a year ago, several of us in > Santa Fe started a conversation place in PBWIKI. The idea was > that each of us would have a subspace into which he or she > would write rants or other promising thoughts for the others > to read and think about. Each person was the owner of his or > her own page in the sense that only the owner could delete > stuff, but anybody could ADD to what was written on another's > page and anybody could take the material on a page, transfer > it to a new page with a new owner, and destructively edit to > his or her heart's content. Or just copy the bit to be edited > to the bottom of the same page, and put the edited version there. > > Like all such utopian projects, there was a lot of fruitless > milling about, but in the end, some really interesting > material got created, including, for instance, a theoretical > glossary of informational thermodynamics speak, a language > that we all sort of share out here, but haven't quite got a > handle on. It ended NOT because it wasn't productive, but > because we all got involved in creating the sfComplex and had > to stop. > > I am eager now to get that project going again, and this > ComplexityNoodlersCorner is my attempt to do so. I hope many > of you will participate. > > HOW TO PARTICIPATE. > > Here is the idea: Any time you find yourself writing > something to FRIAM that you think might be a bit too good to > be lost to a list, go ahead and finish it. However, BEFORE > you send it to the list, copy it to your clip board and past > into a page on in the ComplexityNoodlersCorner. Then, leave a > reference to that page in your FRIAM contribution, so that > others can go to the WIKI and work with your material. The > Noodler's Corner is in MEDIAWIKI on the sfcomplex website at > > http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/ComplexityNoodlersCorner > <http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/ComplexityNoodlersCorner> > > > MediaWiki is the same software that WIKIPEDIA is written in, > so it will be real familiar. However, it has its little traps > that the nerds left for us ordinary folks, so I suggest you > have a look at the page > > http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/Getting_started > <http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/Getting_started> > > to orient yourself. If you are having problems, please email > me any time of day or night, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you want to start a new page, go to > > http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/NoodlersIndex > <http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/NoodlersIndex> > > and make a reference to that page, following the format > modeled there and adding your new page to the top of the list. > > It is my fervent prayer that others will see the potential > value of this project and will help me get it started. > > A very good way to help me would be to complain about the > unclarity of my instructions and make suggestions concerning > how they might be clarified. > > The next message will contain The First Noodle. > > Thanks, > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark > University ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) > > > > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
