On Feb 23, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Gregory Ulmer wrote:
A useful meeting the other day. We now have a specific plan. The focus for our creation of the prototype collaboration device is our immediate area, think global, act local. If our peers apply the model to their own backyards, the result will be a distributed collective insight (potentially).
A further motivation for this choice: we are one of the four sites Coleridge used to create his image of Xanadu in Kubla Khan, based on his reading of Bartram’s travels. This connection with history and literature provides a hook that could garner media attention. ”Pleasure Dome Doomed!” or “Xanadu Now Xanadon’t” (Xanadu Not? Xanadone?)
I will compose a framing vision statement, and pass that along to you for further development. Kim demonstrated an excellent grasp of the relevant water districts etc. Howard has the tools area.
Howard and Kim plan to meet during spring break, for Howard to get some ideas about how to put design knowledge into a web ontology.
–Related items from the Gainesville Sun
1) Did you see the “quotable” the other day from Salma Hayek? Declaring her fears about her daughter’s coming world: ”I get a bigger fear of what kind of world she’s going to live in. Is she going to run out of water?” etc.
2) The book recommended for the common reading program for incoming freshmen for this coming year is __When the Rivers Run Dry__. You may recall that I recommended this book to E as a point of departure for understanding the water crisis in general. Perhaps we should all read it and have a discussion? It at least suggests that the window of opportunity for our endeavor is open (timing).
E
Greg
