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March 13, 2003
Branch Floridians
Even though I didn't go to SXSW this year, Molly really nails my thoughts on the thing in general: "[I] used to come to this conference to get jazzed about what would be happening in the DIY world 2-5 years out." For me, Doors of Perception has been the inspiring crystal ball, although less so at the most recent one than in 1998 or 2000.
Fortunately, Adam's found something positive to take away from it, "...it's gonna be a wild couple of years - but I think everything's going to be all right." (I've got to read Richard Florida now. Should start with this transcript of his SXSW talk.)
Is it really possible, as Adam suggests, that smaller, nimbler countries might profit off Bush et al's dismantling of diversity? That's an interesting thought, but could it happen through a top-down governmental effort? Berlin's an incredibly creatively diverse place at the moment, but that's largely because the city can't afford growth policies of any kind; it's bottom-up development if I ever saw it.
Posted by Andrew at March 13, 2003 10:46 AM
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Well, as always, I'm (perhaps over-)prone to generalize from what we do at the day job.
In IA, the grail is of course the architecture that matches imposed, top-down task flows with emergent, bottom-up content classification schemas.
Why not here, too, a melding of top-down and bottom-up?
Posted by: Adam at March 15, 2003 06:56 AM
i have ever more doubts about large governments being the types of governments under which i want to live. it seems like it's more a matter of thinking locally, if not smaller.
this doesn't change society, mind you, but it changes people's lives.
Posted by: molly at March 15, 2003 09:44 AM
Want to *really* learn about "branch Floridians"? Go to the source: www.branchfloridians.org
Posted by: saint at May 29, 2003 09:15 PM