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I just imported my Typepad blog into WordPress. This is an experiment in progress.

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Imagine that …in just 2 hours!

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I have finally managed to get an internal blog set up. WooHoo. Not an easy thing to do around here. It will be a blog about blogging, trying to spread the Word. So my guess is that most of my energy will be focused internally for a while. I will pop back out here every once in a while to give updates..

Also I am attending Blog Business Summit 06 in Seattle at the end of October. Let me know if you are going to be there.

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Very cool dive, Utila Aggressor, Bay Islands, Honduras, April 2006.

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Some one said this the other day and it struck me that this statement is a powerful metaphor for today’s environment. Of course the conversation was about iPods and who got or gave one for Christmas (just about everyone). Everyone around the table was a "Baby Boomer" and the whole iPod thing is a little foreign, so I found the observation that we are turning into DJ’s particularly insightful, even though it was meant in a literal sense.

The insight is that the power of information flow in our society is shifting away from those that deliver information to those that receive (or more accurately "seek") information.

More to say here, just no time. So until later…

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I have been out of the game for a while. Firstly due to the holidays…add a 1-year old, a 2-year old and Christmas together and you don’t have much time left. To complicate things further, my Dad suffered a mild stroke in December and spent the holidays in the hospital. We brought him home to 24/7 nurse care. He passed away on January 15, 2006.

Blogging has not been my first priority, but recently the jucies have started to flow again…back into the fray! Though my Dad would have had no idea what blogging is, he would have understood the passion and energy behind it. So as I return, I do it with my Dad’s encouragement…and his ubiquitious question, "What does digital mean?"

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OK, so this is not in line with my main theme, I just wanted to try it out. I took this picture january 2002 in Fiji.

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As the day winds down, I am sitting here listening to the Stones play a concert down the street at SBC park…what a country.

As for the conference, today was an interesting day. The morning Keynote was by Marv Adams, CIO at Ford. Unfortunately I had to cut out early. His main theme was how to use systems and complexity theory in a practical way to help organizations.

Lunch was designed around topic tables. I thought I would see what the interest in blogs was with this group. I figured that blogs are a natural extendion of systems, interconnections, conversation, emergence, etc., and that it would be a topic of great interest. I seem to have been mistaken. Two people joined me and their interest was "tell me about blogs, I have heard about them, but…" Oh well, a long way to go.

The afternoon session was quite interesting. The keynote speaker was Mary Catherine Bateson. Here theme was intergenerational connections. She made a strong point that there is a wide gulf between the generations and that to make real progress in improving our society, we need to listen to everyone, the young and the elders. I attended an afternoon working session led by the World Cafe Foundation along the same topic.

Time to sign off to the sound of mick, keith and the boys playing "Magic Carpet Ride"…

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Seth points to how conferences are not as effective as they would like to be. (How did he know I was at a conference this week?)

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Seth’s post, Mine ours,everyone, brings to mind that old analogy about the Fax machine. The first Fax machine  was technically  fascinating and totally useless. Adding the second machine made it a novelty  and mostly useless. Add the millionth machine and you have an invaluable  business tool. Blogs seems to be following the same paradigm. It makes sense to apply this thinking to other processes as Seth suggests.

In the same vein as The Big Moo is More Space. Check it out, Seth wrote the Foreword.

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