Comments on: The Rest of the Story: Chapter 1 http://www.bloggle.com/2004/05/the-rest-of-the-story-chapter-1/ Coffee & Commentary Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:32:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://www.bloggle.com/2004/05/the-rest-of-the-story-chapter-1/#comment-8 Anonymous Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.bloggle.com/wordpress/2004/05/23/the-rest-of-the-story-chapter-1/#comment-8 heya dougie!<br /><br />as scaa chief ted lingle sez: "relationships are the energy vortex that serve all change."<br /><br />or to quote e.m. forster: "only connect."<br /><br />i remember one of the first blogs i ever saw was a site run by a japanese teen chick who collected sparkly hello kitty stickers for cellphones.<br /><br />trivial consumerism? or the voice of an asian teen generation expresssing its new reality in symbols i didn't understand, icons for which i lacked reference? after all, beatles haircuts once seemed trivial too. . .and look what that turned into. . .<br /><br />despite the exaggerated claims of the pseudo pundits and self-promoting war bloggers, the alternate media effect is real. as you can see anytime you look at a blog by an iranian girl under 30.<br /><br />that's major-geopolitical change coming, viewed small and made real. <br /><br />our dopey coffee blogs are no different. the coffee crisis is a failure of the global economic system, one that affects 25 million families in coffee-producing countries. it's serious stuff.<br /><br />eisenhower remarked that if a problem seemed intractable, enlarge it. but that's not how the coffee crisis is gonna work.<br /><br />we are going to solve the coffee crisis when the average coffee lover -- people like us -- make a tiny change in their daily routine. when they buy a slightly different kind of coffee, a better tasting coffee. <br /><br />altering the angle of their reach in the a&p to move from "the cans" to something else. that's all it takes. . . and in a little while, the world will suddenly be radically different. heya dougie!

as scaa chief ted lingle sez: “relationships are the energy vortex that serve all change.”

or to quote e.m. forster: “only connect.”

i remember one of the first blogs i ever saw was a site run by a japanese teen chick who collected sparkly hello kitty stickers for cellphones.

trivial consumerism? or the voice of an asian teen generation expresssing its new reality in symbols i didn’t understand, icons for which i lacked reference? after all, beatles haircuts once seemed trivial too. . .and look what that turned into. . .

despite the exaggerated claims of the pseudo pundits and self-promoting war bloggers, the alternate media effect is real. as you can see anytime you look at a blog by an iranian girl under 30.

that’s major-geopolitical change coming, viewed small and made real.

our dopey coffee blogs are no different. the coffee crisis is a failure of the global economic system, one that affects 25 million families in coffee-producing countries. it’s serious stuff.

eisenhower remarked that if a problem seemed intractable, enlarge it. but that’s not how the coffee crisis is gonna work.

we are going to solve the coffee crisis when the average coffee lover — people like us — make a tiny change in their daily routine. when they buy a slightly different kind of coffee, a better tasting coffee.

altering the angle of their reach in the a&p to move from “the cans” to something else. that’s all it takes. . . and in a little while, the world will suddenly be radically different.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.bloggle.com/2004/05/the-rest-of-the-story-chapter-1/#comment-9 Anonymous Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.bloggle.com/wordpress/2004/05/23/the-rest-of-the-story-chapter-1/#comment-9 And yet, You don't even give credit to the blogger, which powers this blog. And yet, You don’t even give credit to the blogger, which powers this blog.

]]> By: deCadmus http://www.bloggle.com/2004/05/the-rest-of-the-story-chapter-1/#comment-10 deCadmus Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.bloggle.com/wordpress/2004/05/23/the-rest-of-the-story-chapter-1/#comment-10 Hello, Anonymous II!<br /><br />That's part of my point, isn't it? That in the end it's not so much about the technology, but about how people use it? What people *do* with it? <br /><br />Certainly, Blogger [and the other blogging tools] paved the way for a whole population of less-than-techy people to publish their thoughts to the world, but it wasn't the *tool* that made the human connections... it was the 10,000 humans at 10,000 keyboards.<br /><br />Even now I'm still impressed - increasingly so - with what Blogger enables me to do... and that's to spend my time writing, and thinking, and connecting, rather than dinking 'round with HTML markup, and FTP and its ilk. <br /><br />By the same token, however, should ever I write the great American novel, I don't know that the first thing I'm going to do is thank my word processer. <br /><br />;) Hello, Anonymous II!

That’s part of my point, isn’t it? That in the end it’s not so much about the technology, but about how people use it? What people *do* with it?

Certainly, Blogger [and the other blogging tools] paved the way for a whole population of less-than-techy people to publish their thoughts to the world, but it wasn’t the *tool* that made the human connections… it was the 10,000 humans at 10,000 keyboards.

Even now I’m still impressed - increasingly so - with what Blogger enables me to do… and that’s to spend my time writing, and thinking, and connecting, rather than dinking ’round with HTML markup, and FTP and its ilk.

By the same token, however, should ever I write the great American novel, I don’t know that the first thing I’m going to do is thank my word processer.

;)

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