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#200: Jamais Cascio, WorldChanger (cascio) Sun 26 Dec 04 20:58

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:58:00 PST

Thank you, Gail -- and thank you, Jon. We couldn't have done it without the consistently excellent work of our contributors, including <jonl> and <emilyg>. [Read entire topic]

#199: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sun 26 Dec 04 15:36

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:36:00 PST

Thanks, Gail! This award is a tribute to Jamais' and Alex's persistent hard work as editors.

Here's a link to the 2004 Award announcements:

http://www.utne.com/pub/2005_127/promo/11502-1.html

And here's a link to Jamais' announcement at WorldChanging: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001782.html [Read entire topic]

#198: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Thu 23 Dec 04 18:01

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:01:00 PST

<scribbled by cdb Tue 28 Dec 04 10:10> [Read entire topic]

#197: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 23 Dec 04 13:38

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:38:00 PST

I just heard -- er, saw -- that WorldChanging just won the Utne Magazine Independent Press Award! I'll leave it to others to supply details and a link, but this is excellent. Hooray, WorldChangers! [Read entire topic]

#196: Taran Rampersad (taranrampersad) Fri 17 Sep 04 16:35

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:35:00 PDT

CARDICIS was really very cool - I didn't know what to expect, which was probably the right thing.

I wrote something about it here: http://www.knowprose.com/node/view/188

But that's what was in my mind almost immediately afterwards. Looking back *now*, it was really interesting. It was my first experience with real time translators, and it was sort of fun because the fellow who was handling the wireless setup was also from Trinidad - a fellow named Peter. There were some logistics issues, and he and I had some fun talking about Tech the way that people in electronics/computers do. Griping about not having equipment, and so on.

The translation was done by students - very interesting people by themselves. I had some fun with them now and then when I spoke, because some things don't translate well unless you're really familiar with a culture. A simple thing like 'goose bumps' can become 'chicken skin', and so forth. I found out that the French phrase for Open Source was something like 'Intermediacion', which when translated back became 'intermediation', which doesn't mean much in original contexts.

But I think Peter made the best point to me and a few others after the conference when he said, "So - does anyone want to tell me what an ICT is?" This was one of the points I had been making; a lot of people who ICTs are supposed to be helping really don't know what an ICT is - and that's a definite problem.

There's more in my head, but I think that's worth a discussion by itself. How many 'initiatives' are there out there that are supposed to do so much good, and people don't even know about them? Of course, we could get into the United Nations alphabet soup, which is about as sensible as reading the contents of Chef Boyardee... [Read entire topic]

#195: Jamais Cascio, WorldChanger (cascio) Fri 17 Sep 04 00:13

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:13:00 PDT

Tell us a bit about CARDICIS, Taran [Read entire topic]

#194: Taran Rampersad (taranrampersad) Thu 16 Sep 04 22:14

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:14:00 PDT

inkwell.vue 223: WorldChanging.com: Another World is Here #192 of 193: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 10 Sep 2004 (07:41 PM)

>Unfortunately I've been traveling this week and more limited in my >ability to contribute... but I'm in favor of continued discussion if >everyone else is up for it!

Sorry, I'm floating in and out myself - with CARDICIS and all these WSIS related emails, I've fallen behind. This is a good discussion, let's keep going. :) [Read entire topic]

#193: Taran Rampersad (taranrampersad) Thu 16 Sep 04 22:12

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:12:00 PDT

inkwell.vue 223: WorldChanging.com: Another World is Here #176 of 192: Emily J. Gertz (emilyg) Wed 08 Sep 2004 (01:17 PM)

>I wonder, Taran, in the new networks of activism, connection and >information that we're part of building at WC, whether the kind of >human capital you describe will become somehow more quantifiable?

Sorry about the late reply, Emily :)

I don't think we can quantify mankind's resourcefulness. We just crawl over or dig through whatever is thrown at us (including, and especially ourselves) - and if we come out on the other end, we prove it. I don't see how we can quantify that... other than we're here. [Read entire topic]

#192: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 10 Sep 04 19:41

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:41:00 PDT

Unfortunately I've been traveling this week and more limited in my ability to contribute... but I'm in favor of continued discussion if everyone else is up for it! [Read entire topic]

#191: Alex Steffen (alexsteffen) Fri 10 Sep 04 16:51

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:51:00 PDT

Thank you, Cynthia, and in Kim's wise words, "Let Beauty pull us on..." [Read entire topic]