Comments on: Good news, online http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/ ...........................just noticing Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:56:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Jack Ricchiuto http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10290 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:03:53 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10290 The possible distinction I was suggesting is between "actual relationships" and "simulating relational activities." I can transact all kinds of opinions and information with people I would never say I have a "relationship" with. We're just transactors in a market place and honestly, I may be quite content to not have a(n actual) relationship with many of them - and they may feel the same way in my direction. Of course, as Hawken points to, rich relationships can emerge from the serendipity of accidental conversations in idea spaces. Thanks. The possible distinction I was suggesting is between “actual relationships” and “simulating relational activities.” I can transact all kinds of opinions and information with people I would never say I have a “relationship” with. We’re just transactors in a market place and honestly, I may be quite content to not have a(n actual) relationship with many of them - and they may feel the same way in my direction.

Of course, as Hawken points to, rich relationships can emerge from the serendipity of accidental conversations in idea spaces. Thanks.

]]> by: Susan Miller http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10288 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:45:06 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10288 Good things about the internet... When you are fighting the good fight, and you become discouraged in the middle of the night, you can go to http://www.wiserearth.org/(Thank you Paul Hawken)and see that others are working hard, too. This is encouraging. I have built relationships from my social network online at realneo and via MTB. We don't always just share via the software and the ethernet cable. Sometimes we share a meal or a walk in the park, or a view of the lake. Listen to Paul Hawken on the proliferation (like an immune system)of social justice and environmental groups and imagine -- this is the beginning of a vast rearrangement of our networking capability. We can learn from people we will never meet and meet people we might never have known via our regular circles of work, play, etc. What constitutes an "actual" relationship? Good things about the internet… When you are fighting the good fight, and you become discouraged in the middle of the night, you can go to http://www.wiserearth.org/(Thank you Paul Hawken)and see that others are working hard, too. This is encouraging.
I have built relationships from my social network online at realneo and via MTB. We don’t always just share via the software and the ethernet cable. Sometimes we share a meal or a walk in the park, or a view of the lake.
Listen to Paul Hawken on the proliferation (like an immune system)of social justice and environmental groups and imagine — this is the beginning of a vast rearrangement of our networking capability. We can learn from people we will never meet and meet people we might never have known via our regular circles of work, play, etc.
What constitutes an “actual” relationship?

]]> by: jack http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10261 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:35:14 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10261 Good observation about the social networking mechanisms. One of the attractions of social networking schemes is that they seem to offer the safety of anonymity while allowing exploration. But much of this exploration is a hope that a spark will set a relationship going rather than an attempt to build one. I think we still misunderstand the nature of relationships, and the complexity of communication that allows them to grow. Software won't fix that. Good observation about the social networking mechanisms. One of the attractions of social networking schemes is that they seem to offer the safety of anonymity while allowing exploration. But much of this exploration is a hope that a spark will set a relationship going rather than an attempt to build one. I think we still misunderstand the nature of relationships, and the complexity of communication that allows them to grow. Software won’t fix that.

]]> by: Jack Ricchiuto http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10240 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:51:25 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10240 Yes, Anton, this is an interesting and great trend, which you are certainly at the lead in. That's my observation, that when people see larger possibilities online, it invites authentic transition from transactions to relationships. Thanks for being a leader in this evolution. Yes, Anton, this is an interesting and great trend, which you are certainly at the lead in. That’s my observation, that when people see larger possibilities online, it invites authentic transition from transactions to relationships. Thanks for being a leader in this evolution.

]]> by: Anton Zuiker http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10239 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:06:25 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/09/30/good-news-online/#comment-10239 Jack, there are plenty of Web networkers who are taking the next step - getting the online social networks to meet up in the physical world and relate to people face to face. Such is the philosophy behind BlogTogether.org here in North Carolina. Jack, there are plenty of Web networkers who are taking the next step - getting the online social networks to meet up in the physical world and relate to people face to face. Such is the philosophy behind BlogTogether.org here in North Carolina.

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