I'm taking time in a busy period to call attention to some great bloggers
in the community of interesting people that make up the Center for Information and Communication Sciences.
They are Charles Tuite and Amy Clevenger:
1. Alumnus Charles Tuite has a great blog called "Seeing to It"
He hasn't said this, but I reckon the name comes from his university login, which I see a lot--"ctuite"--and I have no doubt he gets told "see to it" often, by the people who recognize (and exploit) his competence, including me...
Here follows a great quote from his continuing reflections on technology and design, often inspired by watching his smart daughter, who's a Toddler, First Class. This is from an entry he calls "Sophie Tech":
I am suggesting that a partnership between technology and users can be a more powerful way of doing things. The desire to learn new things is a necessary component in a continuingly successful career, especially these days (desire to learn may not even be enough in some areas, but if changes are rolling through a shop and there is someone who likes learning, they will be one of the last to be put out), and as more users develop or display this, it is a good time to get some institutional knowledge developed.
2. Another great CICS blogger is Amy Clevenger, one of the administrative staff of the Center.
She has a blog called "The Rolling Relic: Life, Love and A 1960 Shasta Airflyte"
You can look it up and find Amy's reflections, philosophic and everyday, that make an interesting read.
You'll also learn more than you ever knew about a Shasta Airflyte, a true classic.
The pictures are great too.
Now,
"Onward!"
as one of my true friends always says,
since
I'm at the Intelligent Communities Forum
conference in New York City.
Lots of discussion here about how communities
can survive and prosper in the 21st century information economy.
I found a great quote attributed to Robert Solow, economist:
"Over the long term, places with strong, distinctive identities are more likely to prosper than places without them. Every place must identify its strongest most distinctive features and develop them or run the risk of being all things to all persons and nothing special to any...Livability is not a middle-class luxury. It is an economic imperative."
Source is the Wikipedia article on Solow, with quotes at bottom of article