Comments on: Thinking about communities and blogs http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/12/23/thinking-about-communities-and-blogs/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/12/23/thinking-about-communities-and-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-54155 JP Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:17:10 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/12/23/thinking-about-communities-and-blogs/#comment-54155 Hadn't heard that one yet, but then I've been there less than 3 months... it's a big place. Incidentally, when I lived in Calcutta, the whole family were into Regency Heyer. We've read the lot. And I mean we. My parents, my siblings and me. Our family motto was We Shall Contrive, which I believe came from the Masqueraders. Nice to meet another Heyer man. Hadn’t heard that one yet, but then I’ve been there less than 3 months… it’s a big place.

Incidentally, when I lived in Calcutta, the whole family were into Regency Heyer. We’ve read the lot. And I mean we. My parents, my siblings and me.

Our family motto was We Shall Contrive, which I believe came from the Masqueraders.

Nice to meet another Heyer man.

]]> By: Ric http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/12/23/thinking-about-communities-and-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-54091 Ric Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:35:49 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/12/23/thinking-about-communities-and-blogs/#comment-54091 I think sharing at least some personal stuff is part of building the trust the Web requires if we are going to make the most of it. Since some/most of us who visit here only know you in the ether rather than the flesh. Judicious personal revelation allows us to know each other better when we don't have the physical cues to assist. BTW - now you're at BT, you may recall/unearth the story of the BT contractor who registered all the Adastral Park domain names, got sacked and kept them for a dating service ... that's a DIFFERENT Ric Hayman (though the similarities are interesting)! I think sharing at least some personal stuff is part of building the trust the Web requires if we are going to make the most of it. Since some/most of us who visit here only know you in the ether rather than the flesh. Judicious personal revelation allows us to know each other better when we don’t have the physical cues to assist.

BTW – now you’re at BT, you may recall/unearth the story of the BT contractor who registered all the Adastral Park domain names, got sacked and kept them for a dating service … that’s a DIFFERENT Ric Hayman (though the similarities are interesting)!

]]> By: The Park Paradigm » Hitchhiking in Cuba http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/12/23/thinking-about-communities-and-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-53644 The Park Paradigm » Hitchhiking in Cuba Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:58:01 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/12/23/thinking-about-communities-and-blogs/#comment-53644 [...] A little while back, the Economist started publishing weekly correspondent’s diaries from various locations around the world. It has become one of my favorite reads on the web. Catching up this morning, I came across the Havana diary. And having just read JP’s thinking about communities and blogs post, one observation stood out: Widespread hitch-hiking is made necessary by Cuba’s poverty. It is made possible by Cuba’s lack of crime. Every strain of society takes to the road here―old women, young men, old men, young women, youthful karate teams. Hitching doesn’t have the tinge of film-noir-ish danger that it does now in the West. Cuba’s low crime rate is not just a matter of statistics. (I couldn’t find, and wouldn’t trust, official statistics, but it is far, far lower than anywhere else in the region.) It fundamentally changes the way people can live their lives. People are afraid to walk the streets of Guatemala City at night; the rich hire guards and live behind gates. In Cuba the default approach to strangers is not one of fear but of guarded friendliness. [...] [...] A little while back, the Economist started publishing weekly correspondent’s diaries from various locations around the world. It has become one of my favorite reads on the web. Catching up this morning, I came across the Havana diary. And having just read JP’s thinking about communities and blogs post, one observation stood out: Widespread hitch-hiking is made necessary by Cuba’s poverty. It is made possible by Cuba’s lack of crime. Every strain of society takes to the road here―old women, young men, old men, young women, youthful karate teams. Hitching doesn’t have the tinge of film-noir-ish danger that it does now in the West. Cuba’s low crime rate is not just a matter of statistics. (I couldn’t find, and wouldn’t trust, official statistics, but it is far, far lower than anywhere else in the region.) It fundamentally changes the way people can live their lives. People are afraid to walk the streets of Guatemala City at night; the rich hire guards and live behind gates. In Cuba the default approach to strangers is not one of fear but of guarded friendliness. [...]

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