CONTACTS 
0201 - Bootstrap Institute                                                                                                                                                O-00000735 0501
020101 - Mr. Henry van Eyken; Webmaster

SUBJECTS
Dream Worth Living Civic Journalism Fleabyte Publish Monthly Quarter

0503 -
0503 -    ..
0504 - Summary/Objective
0505 -
050501 - Follow up ref SDS 12 0000. ref SDS 11 0000.
050502 -
050503 - Muray and Peter are members of the circle who advocate for Henry and
050504 - Fleabyte; today they encourage Henry to continue efforts on civic
050505 - journalism.
050506 -
050507 -
050509 -  ..
0506 -
0507 -
0508 - Progress
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050901 - Murray Supports Henry's Dreams for Civic Journalism
050902 -
050903 - Follow up ref SDS 12 DW5I.
050904 -
050905 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Murray Altheim responding to the letter,
050906 - ref DIP 1 0001, submitted to Henry and to his circle of advocates for
050907 - Fleabyte. ref SDS 12 DW5I  Murray's letter today is a composite,
050908 - addressed to Welch with comments on the letter yesterday, then the
050909 - narrative addresses Henry, but does not expressly introduce the change
050910 - in address, so this is added as follows...
050912 -         ..
050913 -    1.  Rod Welch wrote in a letter dated February 22, 2005...
050914 -
050915 -            Henry,
050917 -             ..
050918 -            Thanks for your letter today commending Peter's support,
050919 -            and noting the challenge of maintaining Fleabyte.
050920 -            ref DRT 1 0001  Your goals on January 10 for a platform to
050921 -            advance civic journalism represent the good side of
050922 -            knowledge management for advancing traditional literacy.
050923 -            Your letter today shows the dilemma of limited time, which,
050924 -            as Drucker notes in his book "Management Tasks and
050925 -            Responsibilities is our most precious resource. ref SDS 12
050926 -            DW5I
050928 -             ..
050929 -            How then to allocate time, ref DRT 1 HL6K, so that Fleabyte
050930 -            is a pleasure and not a burden to its guiding light?
050931 -            ref SDS 12 Y64U
050933 -         ..
050934 -    2.  Rod,
050936 -         ..
050937 -        Very well said -- thank you.  I very much agree, ref DRT 1
050938 -        YL6O, and think one of the things I've learned over the years
050939 -        (being so fortunate as to have had contact with people like Jon
050940 -        Bosak, Eduardo Gutentag, Doug Englebart, Jack Park and Steven
050941 -        Newcomb -- in no particular order) is not anything
050942 -        technological but more about priority.  About how to better
050943 -        prioritize one's life, as it's difficult to do anything
050944 -        productive about the health of the world if one's own health
050945 -        (mental, physical, spiritual) is suffering.  Both Jack and I
050946 -        are light bulbs that have to watch our voltage carefully.
050948 -  ..
050949 - Research on Murray's web site...
050950 -
050951 -             http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
050952 -
050953 - ...shows work on....
050954 -
050955 -            Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Management,
050956 -            Ontologies, Ontology Visualization, Semantic Networks,
050957 -            Conceptual Graphs, Topic Maps, World Wide Web
050959 -             ..
050960 -            ...construction of literary narrative from a complex
050961 -            knowledge web.  My research involves how knowledge
050962 -            representation, management and visualization technologies
050963 -            may be used to augment the organization of research
050964 -            materials and the authoring process.  Specifically, I'm
050965 -            investigating the use of computer-based ontologies in an
050966 -            authoring environment, and in how such an environment (when
050967 -            connected to the Web) may itself be considered a form of
050968 -            hyperdocument.
050970 -  ..
050971 - Support for authorthing sounds helpful to Fleabyte's project.
050973 -  ..
050974 - Has Jack considered Murray's work for the learning project at SRI,
050975 - reviewed on 040221? ref SDS 6 5U6J  Sounds like a good fit.
050977 -  ..
050978 - Murray continues...
050979 -
050980 -    3.  Your advice to Henry seems very good -- to first take care of
050981 -        oneself, ref DRT 1 HM8H, step back a bit and figure out what is
050982 -        an appropriate level of effort (if not full retirement from the
050983 -        task, which is always an honourable thing to do too), and
050984 -        perhaps look towards a future path that is more in line with
050985 -        available energy and resources.  And to also look back across
050986 -        the valuable work that has been done in reiterating many of the
050987 -        things that have been said, pull it all together into the
050988 -        present DKR.
050990 -         ..
050991 -    4.  [Henry...]
050993 -         ..
050994 -        And I have said it before, but I think it bears repeating:
050995 -        please don't underestimate your worth to the community, nor
050996 -        accept that we aren't willing to hear what YOU have to say.
050997 -        ref DRT 1 RM9H  You at one point said that you didn't think
050998 -        Fleabyte could continue as a one person effort.  If that's
050999 -        because of the energy, certainly, we all can understand that.
051000 -        But it should also be noted that there are a lot of people out
051001 -        there blogging who have very little of value to add to the
051002 -        world, which is about the opposite of your case.  I think if
051003 -        you simply swapped Fleabyte over into some simple blog sofware
051004 -        and just kept writing (at whatever frequency you felt
051005 -        comfortable and able), that in itself would be an absolutely
051006 -        great outcome.
051008 -         ..
051009 -    5.  As you know, many (well, probably most) of us are very
051010 -        technology-oriented, and we're also by nature problem solvers.
051011 -        ref DRT 1 1N4M  Put a problem in front of us and we try to
051012 -        solve it.  So of course the natural reaction is for us to begin
051013 -        having a discussion about the social and technological issues,
051014 -        about possible solutions, etc. to taking Fleabyte to whatever
051015 -        is its natural "next stage." This becomes a noisy conversation
051016 -        quickly.  There's nothing wrong with that, except it's perhaps
051017 -        not what you need.
051019 -         ..
051020 -    6.  If quiet contemplation, some time alone and with your friends
051021 -        and family, some time to think, perhaps some time with a pencil
051022 -        and a pad of paper, whatever, then don't let all the talk of
051023 -        technology be the real issue. ref DRT 1 OO5M  We value your
051024 -        company, your words, and your participation in our community of
051025 -        ideas.
051027 -         ..
051028 -    7.  I can at least speak for myself (though I believe I can speak
051029 -        for others here as well) in saying that what you write I
051030 -        certainly will read, as I find it important, enlightened,
051031 -        humane and human.  And this world needs more of that, not less.
051032 -        ref DRT 1 UO6J
051034 -         ..
051035 -    8.  Thanks very much Henry, and my best wishes to you. ref DRT 1
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SUBJECTS
Work Within Time Money Available Fleabyte Dream Worth Li

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060402 - Peter Supports Henry's Dreams for Civic Journalism
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060404 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Peter Jones saying...
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060406 -    1.  Dear Henry,
060407 -
060408 -        +1, what Murray said.
060410 -         ..
060411 -    2.  Some tangential views:
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060413 -           http://www.concept67.net/blog/?p=6
060415 -         ..
060416 -    3.  Murray Altheim wrote:
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060420 - Checked the link in Peter's letter, and it came up blank.
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