tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109020472011-12-20T05:38:37.586-08:00PaulBHartzog[@panarchy.com]<br /> I'm a lot of things. This personal blog is for all of my thoughts that don't fit on any of these other places that I blog: <a href="http://www.panarchy.com/Blogs">Panarchy.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.smartmobs.com">SmartMobs.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.mindjack.com/relay">Mindjack.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.corante.com/many">Many-to-Many</a><br /><a href="http://rush2life.blogspot.com">All I Need To Know, I Learned From Rush</a><br />Paul B. Hartzoghttps://profiles.google.com/116608745094856027291noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10902047.post-1136761105525512322006-01-08T14:55:00.000-08:002006-01-08T14:59:50.273-08:00

It's insane how much I get done. It's even more insane how inadequate it is for just keeping up with the world.So, drawing on BitTorrent, and the whole torrent metaphor, I'm thinking about writing something about WorldTorrents. Takes me back to the Police song in the 80s...Too much informationRunnin' through my brain;Too much information,Drivin' me insane......

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Well, 2005 is over and what a year. Got moved to Ann Arbor. Had a great time crossing the country from Utah and going to Yellowstone and Wind Cave with the fam.We've gotten well-settled in Ann Arbor, found friends, found grocery stores, all that stuff.Got past the first semester of U Mich's Ph.D. programme. Did well. Even got an A+ in one class with a recommendation to publish my final paper.

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(I was chastised for saying "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays," so I'm going to go with the appropriately pagan and likely offensive "Happy Solstice" from now on.I also have a few days off before next semester which I'm spending with my family. The difficult transition, i.e. the first semester here, is over, and I haven't done too badly ;-)...

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Found this:i) Contribute to the development of a theory of complex social systems and organisations.ii) Explore and develop models, tools and methods to help organisations understand and cope with complexity.iii) Develop a method of discourse of complexity, within an organisational context.COMPLEXITY PROVIDES AN EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORK AND A LANGUAGE, WHICH OFFER A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING AND

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I started a new blog today:All I Need To Know I Learned From Rushhttp://rush2life.blogspot.com/

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Holy Cow!Last Friday, I had lunch with Carl Simon, Scott Page, and the IGERT recipients at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. Then I spent an hour with Rich Ling. Talked with Larry Lessig and watched his presentation in the afternoon. Then saw E. O. Wilson speak on his book Consilience in the evening.This Friday, we IGERT fellows will be hangin w/ Douglas Hofstadter and John Conway!

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Larry Lessig was here last Friday and gave a brilliant presentation that encouraged us to "Laugh. Revolt. Resist." the absurdity of those who would push copyright law to evil extremes. Had me laughing one moment and crying the next.Reminded me of the way that Thomas Covenant triumphs over Lord Foul, and, of course, the way we all can triumph over any evil.Thanks, L! That's "funy stuf"; you keep

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My post "The Power of Conversation" has been getting some attention over at Many-to-Many

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I wrote this bit for Corante's Many-to-Many blog:Cinema-On-Demand: Theater as Social SoftwareA darkened theatre. A full house. A heroic act. A mighty roar from the crowd. This is the delight of good cinema.I love going to the movies with people, even people I don’t know. I love to hear others’ reactions, and discuss the movie with people afterwards. In fact, I love it so much, that when my

Paul B. Hartzoghttps://profiles.google.com/116608745094856027291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10902047.post-1119310297346495852005-06-20T16:30:00.000-07:002005-06-20T16:31:37.350-07:00

My friend Trent Levesque coined the term "Generation X-Box" and since I will likely be using it a lot, I just thought I'd publicly thank him.Thanks, you!

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I put numbers on the front of my labels on gmail so I can control the sort order in the left-hand column, like this:1 Blah1 More Blah2 Different Blah2 More Different Blah3 Still Differenter Blah9 And so on...You can use words too. For ex., I keep all emails received from mailing lists labeled "List - " and then the listname.:-)

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I've been doing a lot of reading/writing/editing summaries of important works on cooperation across many disciplines: everything from synchrony to symbiosis to international cooperation to altruistic punishment to ... well, you get the picture. It's all for Howard Rheingold and the Institute for the Future's "New Literacy of Cooperation" project.I've read all of this stuff before, but not in so

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I recently watched this EPIC video about the rise of blogging and computer-generated media (like google news) v. the "quality control," journalistic ethics, and democratic values of traditional news and media (like The New York Times), and then talked with a friend about the whole issue. I know there is something good about the rise of a more diverse media smorgasbord but had a hard time putting

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Ok, so I decide to read C.S.Lewis' A Grief Observed, right? I decide to snag a CD to play in the background. Perusing my collection, I get the soundtrack from "City of Angels," recalling the acoustic guitar bits at the end that I haven't listened to in a while.Here's where it gets weird.I'm reading along, and I get to page 45 where Lewis says:"In which sense may it [faith] be a house of cards?

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I've discovered something about blogs that I'm contemplating writing a paper on.Blogs are not free speech.I'm not going to blog that my boss sux if I want to keep my job. I'm not going to blog that my authoritarian government needs to be brought down if I want to keep what little freedoms I have left. I'm not going to blog that my sister is the most awful person in my life if I have to see her

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Being a reluctant revolutionary, I am always wary of tyranny and the many insidious forms that it takes. Here's one that really gets me.The "folder" system. Otherwise termed "hierarchical" information systems.Filesystems are hierarchical. Operating systems are hierarchical. Scientism is hierarchical. Modernism is hierarchical.The information systems of the world are infected with an embedded

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Well, I read The Return of Santiago in about 3 hours straight through last night.Not only did it bring me to tears, but it reminded what is really important: compassion, the work.I really needed that.

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Just had to blog this bit of "Kringle Kaos":http://www.santarchy.com

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Well, the talk was pretty good. The sad truth is that most of it was similar to things I wrote in 1986, and much of it was nothing new and has been covered in more detail by other scholars: global civil society, feelings of "human" citizenship, etc.Nonetheless, it was great to see such a heavyweight talk about where she thinks the world is headed. She may be only half right but that's half more

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I'm headed to see Saskia Sassen tonight at the University of Utah. She proposes that global financial networks are concentrated in "global cities" that are the major control centers for the new economy.I took on her argument in my article Cities Without Borders: Digital Culture and Decentralization, so I'm pretty stoked about getting to talk with her.

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I reread Mike Resnick's Santiago last night. Turns out there's a sequel not out in paperback yet. Guess I'll read that one this week.Santiago has profoundly affected my life and I've read it plenty of times. Someday I'm going to make it into a film.The first aim of power is to perpetuate itself, and the first duty of free men is to resist.

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Like a slime-mold, the blog4zog has emerged.I've started this personal blog to hold all those things that I think about that don't fit on any of the other places that I blog.

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