http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/ In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-10476 Dave Pollard Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:23:57 +0000 http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/#comment-10476 <a></a>Gregor: Great quote, thanks. The influence of Bucky and Marshall just keeps growing even after they've gone.Jay: Excellent point. No reason it has to be the Internet.Jon: XpertWeb has an interesting model -- thanks for the link. Gregor: Great quote, thanks. The influence of Bucky and Marshall just keeps growing even after they’ve gone.Jay: Excellent point. No reason it has to be the Internet.Jon: XpertWeb has an interesting model — thanks for the link.

]]> http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-10475 Jon Husband Sun, 01 Aug 2004 14:03:07 +0000 http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/#comment-10475 <a></a>Blog-ponds, with all us blog-frogs sittin' around croaking at and with each other ?Jay's question is an interesting one. Is it only one problem ? or is it the same problem in a thousand or a million different guises ? or is there a theme, with many different sub-theme problems. In bricolage, things are built, often by puttering or with just the right odds and ends ... and then there are depanneurs - fixers, repairers, getting unstuckers.Dave, do you know of Britt Blaser's XpertWeb concepts? <a href="http://www.xpertweb.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.xpertweb.com</a>, I think. I know Ming has spent some time with Britt on that, and then I think Britt turned his attention elsewhere.I have also (often) wondered how the tool I was talking with you about in Toronto might be useful in this context. The PAKs are a good possibility for creating linked tours of basic material for given purposes and also as ways to build (scaffold) to borrow Doc's term) information into more and more useful knowledge. Maybe used in conjuction with wikis ? Blog-ponds, with all us blog-frogs sittin’ around croaking at and with each other ?Jay’s question is an interesting one. Is it only one problem ? or is it the same problem in a thousand or a million different guises ? or is there a theme, with many different sub-theme problems. In bricolage, things are built, often by puttering or with just the right odds and ends … and then there are depanneurs – fixers, repairers, getting unstuckers.Dave, do you know of Britt Blaser’s XpertWeb concepts? http://www.xpertweb.com, I think. I know Ming has spent some time with Britt on that, and then I think Britt turned his attention elsewhere.I have also (often) wondered how the tool I was talking with you about in Toronto might be useful in this context. The PAKs are a good possibility for creating linked tours of basic material for given purposes and also as ways to build (scaffold) to borrow Doc’s term) information into more and more useful knowledge. Maybe used in conjuction with wikis ?

]]> http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-10474 Jay Cross Sun, 01 Aug 2004 01:09:47 +0000 http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/#comment-10474 <a></a>Dave, I don't understand why the Internet is the inevitable solution before the problem's pinned down. The peeper frogs aren't online, are they? Dave, I don’t understand why the Internet is the inevitable solution before the problem’s pinned down. The peeper frogs aren’t online, are they?

]]> http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/comment-page-1/#comment-10473 gregor@hober.com Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:46:54 +0000 http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2004/07/31/parallel-paths-converging/#comment-10473 <a></a>If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do.... How would I be? What would I do? - R. Buckminster Fuller.I see that Ming the Mechanic is looking for collaborators. <a href="http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001321.htm" rel="nofollow">http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001321.htm</a> If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do…. How would I be? What would I do? – R. Buckminster Fuller.I see that Ming the Mechanic is looking for collaborators. http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001321.htm

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