Bernard D. Tremblay (ben)'s Posts - P2P Foundation2024-03-29T12:09:10ZBernard D. Tremblay (ben)http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/BernardDTremblaybenhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1535003116?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1i2cd5ze03jyf&xn_auth=noTo begin ...tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2008-04-01:2003008:BlogPost:29702008-04-01T22:30:00.000ZBernard D. Tremblay (ben)http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/BernardDTremblayben
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March 2008? After 13 years on the web? After 36 years of online activity in one form or another? (I could say 41 years, if I counted ham radio!)<br />
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How about this:<br></br>let's go with "something old and something new ..."<br></br>I'll let the "something blue" be the tree / blue sky / horizon JPG I just installed as the background on my profile page here. :-)
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<b><u>Something <i>old</i></u></b>:<br></br><table border="0">
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... where?<br />
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March 2008? After 13 years on the web? After 36 years of online activity in one form or another? (I could say 41 years, if I counted ham radio!)<br />
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How about this:<br/>let's go with "something old and something new ..."<br/>I'll let the "something blue" be the tree / blue sky / horizon JPG I just installed as the background on my profile page here. :-)
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<b><u>Something <i>old</i></u></b>:<br/><table border="0">
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<td>The <a href="http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Current/P7/">website for our People's Summit project</a> ... the event we mounted parallel to the 1995 G7 conference. A fabulous example of how group activity can demonstrate the best and worst of progressive dynamics. (An A-list type parachuted in to proclaim and be proclaimed as holder of revealed wisdom concerning things HTML ... dividing the project, dead-ending the effort, and contributing precious little. When time came to re-vitalize the project in 2002, for the G8 Finance Ministers' Meeting, I came up with <a href="http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Current/P7/new/">a preliminary homepage</a> but, well, bad memories haunted the whole community and it never stirred its loins.)</td>
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"<a href="http://bentrem.sycks.net/gff/gff.html">Green Future Foundation</a>" and <a href="http://bentrem.sycks.net/gff/gff_comp.html">one of its resource pages</a>, from 1996 ... the community was a spent force. What should have been a veritable celebration of dynamism and collective intelligence became an exercise in careerism and one-upmanship. The project was still-born. Sad. Just sad.<br />
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And most recently?<br />
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<b><u>Something <i>new</i></u></b>:<br/>Beside a couple of posts to <a href="http://mozdawg.blogspot.com">my dusty old "DAV and Docs" blog</a>, and the inevitable updates to <a href="http://hfx-ben.livejournal.com">my venerable aulde LiveJournal</a>...<br/>... I launched something to revitalize my more general interests: <a href="http://udjonell.blogspot.com">UdJonell.blogspot.com</a> is getting me to re-visit Jon Udell's body of work, which seems to me a veritable cornucopeia of delights. (So this will do double duty, counting as <b>something <i>borrowed</i></b>, too!)
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And <a href="http://groundplane.wordpress.com">GroundPlane.wordpress.com</a>, my newest thing and certainly the most significant in a long while.<br/>This has been a long time coming; I can't say I've dropped "stealth mode", the cat's still very much in the bag ... let's say I've allowed it to poke its head out. Yaa, something like that.
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cheers!<br />
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p.s. thanks to Michel Bauwens for the invite and to Sepp Hasslberger for the warm reception