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 Summer visitations got an early start last month when the Northeast US Quaker blogroll converged in my back yard with no agenda to follow and no epistle to write.Front row: James, Jeffrey and visitation ringleader Amanda. Back: Ryan, Rob, Me, Theo and poor blogless Christina. |
In the meantime, there's been fresh talk about plain language and dress this week by Johan Maurer, Claire Reddy and the Livejournal Quakers. Russ Nelson's started a Planet Quaker blog aggregator (which includes Quaker Ranter: thanks!). LizOpp talked about field testing her upcoming Quaker identity Gathering workshop at Northern Yearly Meeting sessions and Kiara's talked about being field tested by Liz at this year's NYM sessions (how cool is that?!).
I've been geeking out on Del.icio.us, the "social bookmarking" system and on the esoteric concepts of tags, the semantic web and folksonomies. Two weeks ago I would have laughed at these neologisms but I'm beginning to see that there's something in all this. The only outward form the regulars will see is a more accurate "Related Entries" selection at the bottom of posts (thanks to Adam Kalsey) and better visibility in selected Technorati entries (which will get less me-centric as I finish tagging my own back posts).
And of course we're tilling the field, planting a garden, putting up laundry lines and otherwise thoroughly enjoying the first Spring in our new house. It's bedtime, off to read the radically folksonomic adventures of Sam and My Car (it's pure tags: "My name is Sam." "This is my car." "I love my car." I'd worry that not-so-baby Theo is getting too excited by combusion engines if he weren't even more excited by "dia-di-calschht" aka the "bicycle" Papa rides off to work on.)
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For not having anything to say, you sure said a lot! smile Thanks for connecting me with Kiara's blog: "How cool is that?!"
BTW, on my Mac, I cannot see the photo that you apparently inserted in this post :( ...I'm hoping you can do your computer magic so that I'll be able to see these Friendly faces.
Blessings,
Liz, The Good Raised Up
Hi Liz,
The pictures didn't show for anyone. Ten years of webmastering and I still don't know how to hand-code an inline image. (Actually, Julie's last gymnastics class didn't show and she came home in an hour earlier than expected last night, just as I posted the entry. I prefered to hang out with her than double-check the post.) The pictures of the bloggers and the car-driving Sam are now visible for all the world's operating systems.
What I want to know is, did you write the article for the "other Quaker publication" or not? With all the comments that post raised, was it enough to help you write your "rolling up our sleeves" message to Friends?
Hi Robin: Alas, no, nothing written on that count now. There's lots of things swirling about but the bug hasn't hit me yet to start typing.
That other publication should just devote an issue to the comments to the post--there's so much in there!
Your Friend, Martin
I'd just like to say, for the record that it's "I am Sam," not "My name is Sam." Geese, for reading that book a gazillion times you think you'd remember THAT! Oh, and it's more like, "di-diccchhhh-le." (Think: Chanukah or challah.) But then poor Martin doesn't get to hear that word as much since it's mostly while he's at work that Theo thinks Martin is wandering around town all day on his "di-diccchhh-le."