MeetUps


Just recently discovered Meetups : a way to yank people who want to discuss something, and their locations, up into the net, and then back down to earth to their face-to-face meeting spots.

This is being used, for example, to organize local meetings among supporters of presidential candidates in the the USA. Provide your location, and see how many other people might meet there, and then attend there. It's a deeply satisfying collaboration pattern , and one which the net, starting with Community Memory , has strived for: how to have the net have real effects on local economies, ecologies, societies. You go up a level, from the tangible body to the communication body (characterized, in a way, by unlimited locality), re-organize, and then return back down with, eventually, a new arrangement of bodies in a room.

Posted: Fri - December 5, 2003 at 05:03 PM      

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