From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Real Time Accelerator

October 16, 2009

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Louis Gray’s The State of Technology and the Real Time Web presentation at Blog World Expo delivered an overview of the convergence happening in the tech space while showcasing both his own practice and many new dynamic platforms.  Of note is Gray’s reserved but clear optimism that Google Wave will find it’s place [...]

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Pause / Play

October 16, 2009

It’s an insight I had arrived at myself last winter (just as I hit the wall of a pretty major illness on the night of the Super Bowl) which was reinforced in the “State of the Blogosphere Address” by Richard Jalichandra from Technorati, namely, that publishing volume is a common denominator of the most successful [...]

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Language, Currency and the Crow

October 16, 2009

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Blogging and social media put amazing potential at our fingertips.  The image “platform” has currency for the vehicles that carry this potential.  If WordPress is my platform, then it’s useful to remember that its precursor, the sheet of paper and the envelope (or the rock wall of a cave for [...]

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Lifestream Digest for October 15th

October 15, 2009

Shared Hey Bloggers, Step Away from the Twitter for a Second… and Blog.

Shared Ambivalence and Ambiguity.

Shared RT @dirkjohnson: My Heart Breaks for the Collective Egg http://post.ly/8eQj.

Shared 7 photos.

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Our Lady of Calico Tanks

October 15, 2009

A return visit to Red Rocks outside of Las Vegas (previous visit here), with enough time to hike the Calico Tanks trail, which winds into a small canyon on the North side of the auto loop. I got lost, in a good way, through the lens of my camera and share these twenty discoveries with [...]

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A Question of Care

October 15, 2009

Kathryn’s fine post reminded me that it is Blog Action Day 2009.  Dedicated this year to climate change, I find myself in the unique position of just emerging from a truly spectacular locale, Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas.  The juxtaposition is startling.  In fact, now back in my hotel room, I look [...]

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Ambivalence and Ambiguity

October 15, 2009

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Often a discussion about dreams is staked to the claim on one side “they just don’t make sense.”  While my experience has been otherwise, it does no good to answer such a charge with an equally convinced statement to the contrary. The experiences of ambivalence and ambiguity, both [...]

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Lifestream Digest for October 15th

October 15, 2009

Shared The Underpinnings of Greed.

Shared …desert shade….

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The Underpinnings of Greed

October 14, 2009

Each news cycle seems to cast different characters into similar situations. Oppositional defiance holds our political discourse captive and greed has sent the economy through the ringer. What’s off in our collective psyche?
I’m struck by this analysis of greed by the psychotherapist Harry Guntrip:
“Instead of reacting with anger, he can react with an [...]

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Lifestream Digest for October 13th

October 13, 2009

Shared Ambivalence.

Shared 2 photos.

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