Early this morning I was looking at some information about my blog.
I have been thinking about open sharing after receiving an invitation from Darrell Cobner to write about blogging.
WordPress offers a range of information about blog visits.
For the first time the geo-locator utility showed that Clyde Street had received three visits from Aruba.
At approximately the same time I received Stephen Downes‘ OLDaily from Moncton, New Brunswick. In today’s OLDaly Stephen points to his blog post on Feelings in Science. In the post Stephen observes:
when I reflect on my own practice it does seem to me that my own work is based in forming connections – though, more specifically, it is based in acting as a node in a network, and not in network-forming per se (I think the concept of ‘building networks’ is a bit misleading; if we want to be a part of a network we must be in the network, as a node, and not outside it
A few hours later I was listening to Michael Cathcart interviewing John Ironmonger about The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder. In this novel:
the central character wants to record every thought he’s ever had, every memory, every aside, every piece of odd knowledge picked up by reading the back of a cereal box. Maximilian Ponder also wants to leave his brain to science, and believes in the power of his increasingly absurd project. Unfortunately, he’s also stuck in 1975.
I am hopeful that someone in Aruba found something of interest in Clyde Street that might be relevant in 2012. Darrell has helped me clarify how this relevance can be shared.
As ever Stephen has demonstrated the energy created by sharing connections.
By the end of the day, Aruba, had moved off my geo-locator page:
… but had been in my network and had linked the Caribbean and a small village node in Australia.
