An Inquiry site:

Blogs and support of inquiry

Nurul Asyikin:

[...] It was horrible - the night before my proposal presentation I was desperately trying to find a way to convey the potential I saw in blogs as a new tool for community building to a roomful of disbelievers. For some reason, none of my web searches last year returned any academic papers on blogging, so you can imagine how completely alone I felt.

A couple months later, things have changed. I've found a multitude of papers (I'm listed there, even), blogs and websites, all devoted to the various possibilities presented by weblogs. I've no idea why I couldn't find them last year, when I felt so alone.

It could very well be because of this blog. Since I set this page up, I've received a bunch of emails offering help and support in writing this thesis. It's heartwarming, and somehow knowing that other bloggers care really does a lot for my confidence in doing this research. It's nice to know that blogs mean as much to other people.

And a An Update on the High Response to Topic Exchange. Namely:

-Matt Mower is adapting Live Topics to Coordinate with Topic Exchange and

-George Bauer is adapting his open source Radio equivalent to allow liveTopics-like post categorisation and Topic Exchange pinging.

-An organized summary of the Topic Exchange categories by Michael Fagan -And high kudo's for discussions of design creativity going to Peter Lindberg's website.

Ming.TV and "What to Do". I have a strong agreement with Buckminster Fuller who said things like:

"The things to do are the things that need doing - that YOU see need to be done,and that noone else seems to see need to be done."

You know, I have the belief that every one of us is here to do something unique. It is not necessarily pre-destined or pre-determined what exactly it is. Probably rather something to discover or invent. But if we don't do something unique, if we don't add our unique perspective and sensibilities to the global soup of life, our life is somewhat wasted and meaningless. It doesn't have to be huge earth shattering things. It might be just a slightly different angle on things, which we impart to the people around us. Something we're present for, which nobody else paid any attention to. But there is for sure something that you can dream, something you can see, and something you can do, which nobody else has quite the same opportunity for. Bucky also says:

"I look for what needs to be done.... After all, thats how the universe designs itself."

Life might seem meaningless unless you realize that you have an important role in co-designing the continued evolution of the universe. There are lots of things to do, so it would be silly to have a meaningless life. [Ming's Metalogue]