I second David Neff’s admonition to go vote. But don’t I speak for a lot of Americans when I plead: Let it be over! One of the things on the ballot here in California is an initiative (we vote on everything out here) to require Wal-Mart to provide a level of health care insurance to employees. And backers of a ...

Two Futuring and Innovation Center people have their own blogs. Check ’em out. Randy Moss has been writing for several months COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION: A clearing house for ideas on how new technology can mobilize communities. David Neff and his fiance just started wesayso just in time for Halloween,

We’ve been having some interesting background discussion in the Society about things blog-wise. (Why is it the most interesting discussions are on e-mail?) There are a lot of issues to consider about the appropriate role for blogs in the ACS and the risks involved in supporting internal (e.g., FISpace) and external blogs. Well, at least we’re probing the matter…with vigor.

This morning I went into Walnut Creek to do a little early Christmas shopping while my wife’s out of town. WC is the upscale shopping hub of the East Bay. The beautiful, the tony shop there—what an old friend of mine used to call “the glossies.” It’s also one of the few places in the Bay Area, I’ll wager, you’ll ...