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Leaving the Earth 03/06/2004 02:03 AM

Rannva dropped this URL on an older blog entry, so I figured I should pop it up to a larger readership, since it's just too cool:

Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Group.

A huge collection of Creative Commons -licensed alternative world history (and future) that should make the soul of every hardcore sci-fi fan tickle. I only took a quick glance through it, but already I started getting ideas...

I think this is another good example on how uncoordinated efforts of dedicated amateurs can produce things that rival commercial alternatives. I don't think it replaces them, though, but it can be a good choice among many. The Internet has really allowed a whole new kind of collaboration efforts to take place, things that were rather difficult to do before. Essentially the Internet is now doing the job of the scientific journals, and it is not surprising that many of the academic papers are being published on the Internet first these days...




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I was going to write "hitting the road now, see you on the other side," but I realized that I'm going to be flying, not hitting the road, and I'll probably see you a few times along the way. Leaving on a trip is really not an important event anymore except that the likelihood that something bad is going to happen to you increases for a period of time.

Anyway, for those of you who are going to ETech, see you you face to face soon.


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Sorry for the absence, folks... I've just limped back into New York from a lost weekend of fear and loathing in Las Vegas, during which just about the last thing on my mind was this blog. Before I post anything real - and I have several rants percolating - I want to thank you for having maintained what I consider a commendable civility while I was off contributing to the decline of civilization, despite your passionately conflicting political beliefs. There's been froth and pitch and a lot of wit. Best of all, you've been sounding like grown-ups. (A virtue I've come to appreciate a lot more of late.) I think the "constructive combat" I wished for in my last post may actually be arising here. This can be a venue where the vectors of opinion that presently rend our beloved country can come to appreciate each other a little better, if only for our sense of humor. I don't think either side is likely to win many converts. We're all pretty convinced. But if we maintain our currently reduced level of name-calling, we might grow back some of the tolerance that has become all too rare among our fellow citizens and upon which democracy itself depends. I be back at it myself as soon as I've had a chance to clear my head. In that service, I'm off to find myself a latte. Since my place here is in Little Italy, that will be easy enough to do. Might even pick up a New York Times while I'm at it......

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As it appears we’re about to move to a town with DSL capabilities, it would be good to hear from anyone with strong opinion on Wanadoo vs Freebox vs Tiscali vs Noos and so on, haut-débit-wise.

I’d rather not give more money than absolutely necessary to the bloated France Telecom, and the dinks at Tiscali haven’t exactly curried a lot of favour, but if the big-pipes 2048k offers they’re flinging about actually work, then so be it.

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Leaving Pompignan II


Leaving Pompignan II 07/28/2004 12:51 PM

So yeah, we moved. Everyone says it’s stressful to move, up there with divorce and sudden unemployment, but christ on a bike it takes a lot out of you. Never mind the backache and barked knuckles: you’re left without a soul.

We’re now about an hour and a half east of Pompignan, in the Rhône Valley, hugged up next to the vaguely shitty Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Actually strike that – it’s only shitty if all you see of it is the shopping malls and supermarkets and their parking lots while you rush around for food and drink between time spent figuring where to put all the god damn stuff that was schlepped over from the old place. The town has a heart, we found out this morning: each Wednesday every street and sidestreet is filled with market stalls, patrolled by women pushing baby strollers, cops in funny pillbox hats, and Dutch tourists. Olives, baby: buckets of them.

The new house is nice. There is interesting plaster moulding. All doorways are higher than my forehead. The dogs have a yard to destroy. Here are some pictures.


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Looking out the windows of the Boeing 757 taking me away from Panama it remains hard to believe that the railroad (1850-55) and then the canal were built.  They had no aircraft and therefore could not perform aerial surveys of a roadless unknown country.  They had no insect repellant in a place swarming with mosquitoes, sand flies, and other sources of nasty bites (so perhaps it was for the best that, until the Americans came along, nobody believed that mosquitoes caused malaria and yellow fever).  The development of this country is a remarkable tribute to the triumph of energy over natural caution. 

Most of that energy came from the American West.  The California gold rush of 1849 provided the impetus for the construction of the railroad and most of its initial revenue.  When the French effort failed two citizens of Medora, North Dakota played key roles.  The best-known is
that of one-time rancher Theodore Roosevelt.  As president of the United States in 1903 it was Roosevelt who encouraged Panamanians to secede from Columbia and subsequently approved taking over the French concession in the isthmus.  Canal historian David McCullough in Br ave Companions writes about another Medoran in his book Brave Companions.

Antoine Amedee-Marie-Vincent Manca de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Mores, was a French aristocrat married to the daughter of a wealthy Wall Street banker.  Of North Dakota the Marquis wrote "I like this country for there is room to move about without stepping on the feet of others."  He invested much of his wealth in the North Dakota badlands, in a local slaughterhouse, and in refrigerated rail cars to deliver beef to markets in the East, in competition with the Chicago stockyards.  Roosevelt was frequently a guest in the Marquis's house in Medora until a cruel winter drove them and their herds out. The Marquis blamed the failure of his enterprise on "the Jewish beef trust" and, upon returning to France, satisfied the French public's demand to know what had gone wrong with their sea level canal with the explanation that the Jews were to blame.  The Marquis successfully stirred many thousands of his countrymen to anti-Jewish riots regarding the canal and subsequently played an important role in the Dreyfus Affair.  He was less successful outside France. According to McCullough, the Marquis was "murdered in June 1896 by a band of Tuareg tribesmen in North Africa", where he had been engaged in an effort to "united the Muslims under the French flag in an all-out holy war against the Jews and the English."


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Identity Brokerage leaving the station 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

 Esther Dyson and Ray Anderson are early investors in Simon Grice's Midentity - which announced a deal with BT today. I hope that smart folks like Om Malik and Rafat Ali notice this.

I just hate it when deals take months to close, but Simon has been working on this one - forever. It's the beginning of the deployment of true identity based servcies - into the mainstream.

Imagine Midentity as a Sxip Networks HomeSite - compatible with FOAFnet, i-names, Liberty Alliance, Passport - the whole nine yards. But who cares about any of that - unless the identity is put into a context?

We've been trying to show social networking in context with 1UP.com (for gamers) and Glowria.fr (for Movie nuts.....) - and now it looks like Midentity is about to put identity into context for Phone slackers and Gen-X,Y,Zers in the U.K.

Imagine being able to locate friends on your cell phone, IM them, interface to your DLA on your PC at home, download a song, meetup at a coffee house, listen to teh music, upload a photo of the group of friends to your blog, send that photo elsewhere and spontaneously form a group - before dessert comes?

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Then you get email from the office, you update your project Wiki, forward a spec list to a comrade in Moscow and - in general - stay on top of your digital lifestyle.

Simon is the one closest to delivering that - right now. He's got 850,000 folks signed up in the U.K. so far.

Simon has also started a new blog called Personal Digital Identity - I bet allot will be going on over there in 2005. Speaking of which - Simon is having a party on the top of the BT Tower in February. I'm definitely gonna be there for that! See yah in London in February - Simon!

Oh yah - Dick Hardt is also an investor in Midentity. And I hope to hell that WE'RE working for Simon - so I can proudly say "we helepd build Midentity into what it is today."


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