Archive - Nov 5, 2005
Live blogging the Santos/Vinnick Debate
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/05/2005 - 15:19Over at http://www.destefanoforct.com/weblog we will live blog and talk about the Santos/Vinnick debate. For those of you who don’t watch the West Wing television show, this is going to be a live presidential debate between the characters Matt Santos and Arnold Vinnick. I hope you can join the discussion there.
A New Content Supplier
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/05/2005 - 12:03(Originally published in Greater Democracy).
Back in August, I wrote about Political Network Topologies, drawing a distinction between two models of politics, one in terms of social networks and the other in terms of citizens as consumers. Jock added a comment pointing me to the work of Anna Nagurney from Umass on supernetworks.
I listened her keynote at MeshForum 2005 and started thinking in different ways about networks. Usually, when I think about networks, I think about nodes and links. However, she points out the importance of the flow on the network as well.
Yesterday, Grant McCracken wrote about brands as a new content provider. He focuses on the ‘flow’ aspects of social networks and how this flow is essential to sustaining social networks. He goes on to suggest that brands may be an important source of ‘flow’ for social networks, thus bringing together ideas of politics as a social network and politics as a group of citizens as consumers.
Tish
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/05/2005 - 10:37November 4th is a special day for me. Sixty-one years ago, my wife’s mother was born. She died six years ago, on my wife’s birthday. Five years ago, my wife and I got married on November 4th and four years ago, we baptized Fiona on November 4th.
So, last night, we went to hear Tish Hinojosa at Music for a Change. Kim and I had heard Tish in concert a couple other times and really like her. Be had bought one of her CDs which has become a favorite of Fiona’s.
It was a nice sized crowd, I would guess around 100 people. The auditorium was small and intimate. Fiona requested a song and there was nice back and forth with the crowd.
