Ethnoeconomics and Emacs
So I realized that my text editor has a livejournal client built in and that I thus don't really have a good reason for not positng to live journal any more. It has full support for filters and moods and communities and all sorts of awesomeness. Anyway. So a journal post is in order.
I remember, once, being opposed to having more than one blog/project/online place. And I was all in favor of consolidation and using syndication tools to try and have just one stream of content. And then, I dunno, I've been working on new projects, writing a bunch, and it just seems to me like no one is interested in that much tycho/sam, and as long as I can keep on top of projects, it doesn't make a lot of sense to be so consolidated.
I've been really busy. Lots of morris dancing, lots of writing and thinking, and generally I feel like I'm in good shape. It's been a wild few months, and it's good to be moving past things and making progress on projects.
I've been writing a lot for tychoish.com about economics, hacking, business models, and co-operative business models. I'm intensely interested in this at the moment, and while I'm almost certainly not generating valuable economic theory or anything but blogging for me is always a process of exploration and experimentation, and I think that I'm beginig to stake out some ideas that will be useful to me in the comming months and years.
Sameul Delany said something (citation lost to history; likely in an interivew) about how plots/stories were always about economic class, and how effective/neccessary it is to watch the journey a character takes from one economic status at the begining to a different one in the end. I think I wrote a bit about this in a post about materalist science fiction, but the idea reains relevant.
So the thinking about economics is useful both in context of the stories that I'm (not at the moment) writing, and hope to write in the future, but also in terms of the consulting work and that I've been doing here and there in the past few months, and the kind of work that I hope to do in the future. Even though I'm not working on the fiction as I would hope to (and my soft, self imposed deadline is beinging to crunch) I have ideas on the brain. That's an amazing feeling somehow.
Anyway. Enough blathering... there are words to be written!!
Have a good day.