There are many many many brilliant people who blog and on these Internets, and I have learned much from those whom I am lucky enough to have come across or gotten to know - for example, J. Alva, Brian, Euan, Jeneane, Dave Rogers, Doc and David W., Earl Mardle, Biurningbird Shelley, the jocular Tutor of course, interim Tom, the incomparable Hardy Boys of the web (RB and Golby), Peter the Other, Arvin Hill, Steve Gilliard, the honesty, integrity and depth of knowledge of Juan Cole .. and so many others.

What frustrates me is the ongoing efforst on the part of most people to figure it all out, to business-ify it all (including me and my colleagues at Qumana, but if I don’t figure something out some day before I die I’ll have to go on the dole). What is happening is big, and the patterns are all there for us to see. I like Doc and especially david w’s and your consistent pointage to socially constructive possibilities and initiatives. There is so much that can be done .. and so much to do.

So I have some time ago ceased to try to come up with any “original” or more-clever-than-the-next observation. I do like pointing out interesting and or confounding and/or dissonant stuff, but more especially I think more and more people should take responsibility for using this great gift of interconnectd hyperlinks to keep very bright lights shone on the people who shamelssly use rhetoric to keep people around the world scared, confused and complacent … in other words, the corporate media and the snakes in the current administration. To an outsider (in Canada), the abuse of your citizenry (and increasingly ours via a sycophantic conservative PM)) seems brazenly shameless.

Orwell’s 1984 is no longer fiction, but a documentary, imo.

SAT (the Society For Arts and technology) in Montreal is really nifty .. an open-minded, progressive and quite cutting-edge place for digital artists and human, in-the-flesh social networks melded with links and initiatives all over the world. It gave me enormous pleasure to be able to introduce J. Alva and bmo to the place and its people, and to be able to watch J. Alva’s wonderful digital art being pumped out to 15-foot hifh wall screens, with the music moving through state of the art sound systmes. I think he liked it and had fun, too, but i hesitate to speak for him.

Thanks again for the recognition. It’s warm.

“It is the dream of many entrepreneurs around the world to come to Sand Hill Road and talk a venture capitalist out of a few million dollars to start a company.”

Frank, could you loan me $20 to register a domain? I think this might be the year of the blog.