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Over the weekend I’ve been reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He has a very good understanding of how to use the internet to promote social networks, groups and people who want to organize themselves around common interests or events. He points out how the cost of doing so has evaporated and how the historical geographical boundaries no longer matter. He also helps take a step back and look at why some organizations have failed to understand the huge social changes that are taking place, in the distribution of music, for example. Organizing subcultures has never been easier. You just need a blog or a wiki.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about what is central to my project. What I’m really finding interesting about this MA_DA course is that I have colleagues in Greece, Italy, Germany and England. I’d be curious to visit each of them on their home turf. You get to know someone a little through the course and their weblogs, and how we build relationships from a distance, and I’m curious how different that might be if we were to meet. I’d be most interested in meeting everyone in the city where they live.