Please Offer Your Feedback

Kevin Kelly says of one of his blogs, The Technium (the working title of his latest book), “I solicit comments there, which in turn influence my ideas. It is a wonderful way to craft a book. Writing in public is more work [and, I might add, scarier!] but it makes the book better”.

I appreciate your comments and will make good use of them.

In particular, I want to hear your own thoughts on these topics and rely on your keen eye for arguments that don’t work as stated or that “don’t read right” and for facts that are wrong or need other facts to create the need understanding. I value any suggestions for sources I might follow up on in areas that I am new to or have fallen out of touch with.  

The postings, your comments, and my further edits and consolidation fit into:

  1. Papers   Many of the blog postings on this site will turn into papers I am scheduled to give at, or am submitting to, conferences

  2. Book    These and other blog entries will find themselves into the book I am writing, Storming the Gates of Our Future, Higher Education and Human Survival.
  3. Map, model and grid by which I seek to summarize the best practices in participatory processes, when to use them and what pitfalls to beware of, with examples. I am exploring how these may contribute to, or make us of, efforts to develop a design pattern language for the practice of and across the full scope what I call “intentional processes”
  4. Solutions I am collecting together a highly selected set of the very best–proven or most promising–solutions and strategies that I know of for some of the most critical and/or challenging problems out there, each with their “success stories”. I expect to offer a series of classes teaching about these and tying it into the map/model above, and some key ideas from what I and others are writing in the area of what I call “strategic social action”
  5. Curriculum outlines that incorporate knowledge critical to creating a livable future is a main focus of my writing as well.
  6. Collaborative Projects    Working with a few colleagues on projects of theirs that are especially worthwhile
  7. Potential Projects   There are also a few project ideas that are developed here. As my writing schedule permits and research shows they are not already going on somewhere somewhere else, I’d be happy to work with others to get these launched. Check these out, if you’d like, to see if you’d you’ld like to help with them with time, talent, moral support, or dollars.