Monthly Archives: February 2007

Commonplaces

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 28, 2007

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. – Gandhi March appears to [...]

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Hole in head

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 26, 2007

Went to the clinic, signed a form saying I’d hold them harmless for whatever, discussed nerve damage and drooling and droopy eyelids and such, opened old wound, checked for centipedes and all that kind of shit, nothing found, closed it up, went home and ate Ibuprofen grateful not to have been found dead like Leslie [...]

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Participatory Democracy on the web…

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 24, 2007

How do we purple-ize when there is one side that insists on zero sum solutions? Given that for some it’s a win-lose competition and victory supercedes any compromise or consensus building, that some segments of our culture are so “values driven” that their values don’t permit entree to new ideas or facilitated consensus… given all [...]

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mind map

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 24, 2007

John Palfrey had a great piece of presentation software this morning that he used during his introductory remarks. A young man named S.J. told me it was maybe Mind Map, but there are lots of such packages. David Isenberg suggested maybe Mind Jet or Free Mind. Now that I finally got my wifi hookup here [...]

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Lasica Interviews Doc

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 24, 2007

The link is here.

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Burning Bucks in Beantown

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 24, 2007

I’m in Cambridge for a gathering called Beyond Broadcast. I doubt I’ll be blogging it much, but I’ll probably twitter a bit. My twitter page is here. Last year I tried to get here via Second Life and I ran into a few technical difficulties. I got into into Boston yesterday and started burning money [...]

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Crane watch

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 22, 2007

2/22 is the day we usually hear the Sandhills arrive on the marsh.  Didn’t happen this year, but the tom turkeys are starting to strut their stuff.  The hens are just turning away at this point though.

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A Man’s World

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 21, 2007

Thx to Tom for the pointer A few weeks ago it was observed in the Harvard Gazette that when it comes to social networks, gender seems to matter. (To my shame if not embarrassment) I am a lurker on a mailing list of femme-geeks that came together following last summer’s BlogHer. It’s more of a [...]

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