The book project has evolved from the “world-turned-upside-down” concept to a more general, but better-organized, case for blogging — by which I mean any kind of social, citizen-driven media.
[Update: Seconds after publishing I realized what a profound understatement that is... I guess I'll just leave it to readers to figure out exactly what it's about by getting a sense from the list of posts to be included.]
Below is a rough provisional order. Keep in mind I’ll be adding commentary before, after, and throughout, which will highlight my errors and frame some of my statements as examples of how blogging works not just despite mistake-making but because of it.
- Iran, An Intro to the Age of Openness?
- The Raw Feed of History
- Preface to Plato / Postscript to Print?
- Benefits of Bubbles and Crunches
- The New Pragmatist
- Finance Crisis as an Information Problem
- Our Society of Overachievers
- Science Boom! The New New Deal
- The Silicon Valley Model
- Random Generative Thoughts
- Educating and Creating for ‘Web 3.0′
- Towards a New Media Model
- Journalistic Sources
- Mind 2.0 / Web 0.2
- The Will to Relevance
- A Sense of the Future
- Why I Write
- Why I Write Again
- Barack Obama
- Lessons From History
- Death of an Immortal
- Devil is in the Details of Tori Stafford’s Story
- Regarding Leadership
- Because you wouldn’t go to a *citizen prostitute* for sex, would you?
- Purpose of Life
- Neurodiversity and the Dumbest Generation
- After Graduation: Create Your Own Economy
- Keeping the Love of Learning Alive [correction: I meant the next one]
- Learning is Personal, Knowledge is Social, Truth is an Adventure …
If you read that early Résumé/Manifesto you might recognize most of the same themes. It was essentially a rough outline for everything that followed — which is exactly what I intended (hence “manifesto”) — which likewise was derived from years spent reading and working out ideas. I imagine I’ll still be writing on the same themes if I’m still alive 50 or even 70 years from now — only with different points of reference.
