<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Harrison, in case I was the one causing you confusion.... I'll paste in below my short post on someone at IBM writing "...blogs tend to promote understructured, unattributed, and unvalidated discussion." This was a comment on a blog, about blogging, and the link is in the email below, if you want to know the context. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I posted it on this list with a chuckle. For those who enjoy free flowing and open conversations, validated only by ourselves, it offered an interesting contrast!<DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm on our town's "Comprehensive Planning Committee" and advocating for some self-organizing citizen gatherings, to increase citizen energy and engagement. I rather doubt that the IBM process is energizing, but maybe I'm wrong about that? ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Diane</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Diane Brandon, M.Ed., Coordinator</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">KEYS Coalition (CWC)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Landmark Hill Community Resource Center</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">518 Rte One Suite 4</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kittery, ME 03904</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">207-438-9100</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Fax: 207-439-8764</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:diane@keysregion.org">diane@keysregion.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">www.keysregion.org </DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="red" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Michael – I liked what you said – very useful. And I wonder if there is a way to insure that at least the subject lines of the blogs shows up on </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT color="red" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-family:Arial;color:red; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">OSLIST</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT color="red" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-family:Arial;color:red; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">? Truthfully, I tend to forget about the blog, just look at </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT color="red" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-family:Arial;color:red; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">OSLIST</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT color="red" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-family:Arial;color:red; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> and hence miss a lot of good stuff. And practically in this case, I think there was discussion here about “structured and unstructured” which had me totally confused (not hard to do) because I had no idea where it came from.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size="3" color="red" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 25, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Diane Brandon wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi All,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I got a chuckle just now, reading that "...blogs tend to promote understructured, unattributed, and unvalidated discussion."</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You can read the full discussion here:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.myvalleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?aid=436">http://www.myvalleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?aid=436</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Skim the blog "article" and go down to the comments section, for a lengthy explanation of new IBM software that is being suggested as an alternative to blogs, re community development conversations.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Maybe it's just me.... but I felt tired just thinking about this new software!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Diane</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PS The blogger, Heather, is our son's wife.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>*
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