I enjoyed the famous aphorism:

“Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection.”

Keep up the great work.

I suggest that you look up Howard Mansfield who lives in the Keene area. He sounds like some of the authors that you have interviewed in the past. He would be an interesting person to interview.

I especially liked “In the Memory House”.

I do think that’s an important part of it.
Action-at-a-distance is unexpected. “I do this, here, and that happens over there?”

“But it’s also an opportunity for a broad platform of education in the area of personal agency.”

Absolutely agree that’s one leg of the stool. The second is, indeed, a way of giving people an experience they can grok and then generalize from. I think Facebook comes closest to giving the experience — my actions have observable ripple effects in the network — but FB does not, yet, provide the intellectual or human/computer tools to generalize from that.

The third leg of the stool is…I dunno. Any takers?

When I see how much lines of code has only the linux kernel I put the hair-raising

We spend 50 of the human story putting layers of problems (instead of indirection) to computer sciences

It’s time to change our point of view

I’m sorry but my work in this direction is explained in spanish (my language) but perhaps you could try it with google translator (there’s a link in my page for your convenience)

I work with something I call Yanged (there’s a category in my weblog)

I put your rss file to my lifearea, thanks!

Partly because, as Ray Ozzie aptly noted in that excerpt above, there is no user-grokkable model for pub/sub.

Good luck with your community calendar efforts by the way. I’m actively trying to encourage the same where I live. It annoys me no end that I have to go to my football(i.e. soccer) team’s website to see when their next game is. Why don’t they publish the fixtures as a subscribable calendar?

regards
Jamie

I know. It used to be, though:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060807225324/http://rayozzie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FB3017FBB9B2E142!285.entry

Key quote:

“Where’s the user model that would enable a user to copy and paste structured information from one website to another?

Where’s the user model that would enable a user to copy and paste structured information from a website to an application running on a PC or other kind of device, or vice-versa?

And finally, where’s the user model that would enable a user to “wire the web”, by enabling publish-and-subscribe scenarios web-to-web, or web-to-PC?”

-Jamie