What kind of community would you like minds.org to be?
Topic 3 · 17 responses · archived october 2000
~terry
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:05)
seed
Today on Electric Minds, there was a very good suggestion that
the new community be a combination of many places around the network.
I can't express it any better than this:
From: hellekin
Reply-To: hellekin@imaginet.fr
I'd like to tell you that for me, the best way to relocate the community is to split it into local content servers. This should be easy as the WWJ are already split between cities. Concerning the form of the new community, more effort should be done to ke
ep stuck with Licklider and Taylor's vision of an online community formed around servers.
Financially it should be easier to maintain as it would allow local sponsoring. This splitted form provides the advantage of being a 'network shape', though it may introduce difficulties in the economic point of view : it needs to develop over a true netw
orked, decentralized, even federative structure.
I'm open to lead a discussion on this subject but my (lack of) time doesn't allow me to do it on the web : i prefer using email for such matters.
I imagine you (eMinds founders and staff) have already thought about such possible combinations for a networked structure and I'd like to know your conclusions on the subject. Maybe we can work it out and make eMinds just be.
soon...
HeLLeKiN =8)
~heather
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:14)
#1
Yes, I thought this was an interesting post. Do you
understand the technical specifics of it? How could someone
log into all the systems at once?
~maddog
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:33)
#2
I am currently here and at Utne - at the same time because people keep pounding on the door there to have me let them in, and I have to slip into nancy's purple party dress and sensible shoes to run down and throw open the eGate for each and every new arr
ival, so please bear with me if I disappear from time to time
~terry
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:42)
#3
The maddog has landed I see. Can you suggest some good topics to add here maddog? I created a few and Heather has created two with nearly identical names. Are you up for topic creation, mad one?
~heather
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:46)
#4
Harry is topic creation czar. I defer to him.
~drymartini
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:49)
#5
What is this disappearing act? Sort of fading before our eyes, then reappearing. Why, it's the Cheshire Dog!
Good thing you have three heads, Cerberus. One for each instance of your bowser browser.
Just making a brief visit here to see what has changed and whassa happnin'. Think I'd better sign out now and see you guys later.
Oh yes, I think the de-centralized idea has some merit. One advantage is that if one plug gets pulled, there are some other basins in our sink. Or whatever. (Hate the feeling of being flushed.)
I would rather see us not have to re-invent the wheel. We can be Re-Minds, and we can be that anywhere or here and there. Actually, we can be that without convening a constitutional convention and then ratifying the blamed thing and electing a congre
ss and all that foo.
See you guys later.
~heather
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:52)
#6
Checking out . . . I have to surrender the TV to my family.
I'll check back in sporadically tomorrow.
~terry
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:57)
#7
Wow, someone accessing on webtv?
Thanks for checking in Heather.
drymartini, isn't the sink metaphor kind of a lowering of the water metaphor standard. Is the next virtual community going to be the Sink?
~maddog
Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (23:59)
#8
phew, this is confusing Terry
things are nuts at Utne still and I just fell flat on my face off the net...
~maddog
Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (07:25)
#9
I really like the idea of many seperate locations Terry, and don't see why eminds can not migrate to many different sites and platforms...
when you looked around at Utne, you probably noticed the irreverant fashion that nod and I set things up - it was just a glorified epeeps really - now I am sure that offended all the techno weenie anti dreck and drivel types, but hey, I am not going to lo
se any more sleep over that - I didn't see any of them staying up all goddam night with us helping design the place.
so like heather said, we will probably wipe these test slates clean anyway - who would want to hang out at a place designed by such a twisted team as me and Thompson anyways - hahahaha
do you guys get The Red Green Show down there in Texas?
~terry
Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (08:37)
#10
No, but I'll add the redgreen show to my hotlist. I
haven't even been able to find your place on utne. You'll have
to post some clear directions how to get there. Because I want
to post it on http://www.minds.org which I may be setting up today.
~drymartini
Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (12:49)
#11
Sorry, Terry. But no one has used Swamp, so far as I know.
How do you feel about Fountain? Fount? Font? Geyser? Aquaduct? Freshet?
Here in Pennsy we have creeks, and the authentic rural pronunciation is "crick." A creek is something a spring becomes after it has been out of the ground a while and traveled a ways and been joined by other little streams until it has become quite i
mpressive, and capable of supporting life.
Some don't have names. Gummint documents refer to them as "unnamed tributary" or "nameless tributary."
I think we need to name them all.
Another local term for a stream is "run." Or even "spring run."
I have christened a few. "Nylon Run." "Walk Don't Run." "Crick Creek." "Broken Spring."
I could go on, but this is probably enough for today's class. Or even a little more.
Another watery place is called a Watergate. Comes from way back, is mentioned in the Bible. Has that one been used?
My Sink analogy was based on only the most elegant, multi-basin, swinging high-fawcet, brushed stainless steel type, with a built-in garbage disposal.
We need some divine guidance here. Let us spray.
~terry
Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (13:53)
#12
Let us spray.
~doug
Tue, Jun 24, 1997 (17:02)
#13
How about the puddle portal or just the puddle. Actually I think Spring is great! MindSpring would be good. I'm new, forgive me if these are old suggestions. What flavor, what presence! Truly a taste beyond the evian.
What was the question again!? DryMartini must be tipsy to spill all that free will into the collective bathtub, you know, the one with the rubber stopper.
Sorry, I havent been much help! but at least I jumped off....again.
~sysop
Tue, Jun 24, 1997 (21:49)
#14
I think the folks in Atlanta have the name mindspring sewed up.
They're one of the largest isps in the country.
Thanks for the great gif, Doug. I've had no end of ribbing about
the spermy look it has.
~doug
Wed, Jun 25, 1997 (16:39)
#15
Life begets life!
~terry
Wed, Jun 25, 1997 (17:21)
#16
There were also some references to oil gushers. All in fun!
~terry
Wed, Jun 25, 1997 (20:48)
#17
Can Electric Minds be distributed over several systems?
What do you thin?