Comments on: Making a Difference with Social Software http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2005/09/06/making-a-difference-with-social-software/ tales of swimming upstream Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:10:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Gardner http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2005/09/06/making-a-difference-with-social-software/#comment-79 Gardner Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:03:01 +0000 http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2005/09/06/making-a-difference-with-social-software/#comment-79 I found scipionus.net too, linked to one of the blogs I read. (I forget which one.) I also found a wiki describing itself as a "rally point." All of these tragic events teach us so much about ourselves, good and bad and admirable and despicable, our helplessness and hopefulness. Our group's time in New Orleans was already very poignant for me, and now it's hauntingly so. To have walked those streets so recently. I think of the announcer's cry as the Hindenburg burned. I found scipionus.net too, linked to one of the blogs I read. (I forget which one.) I also found a wiki describing itself as a “rally point.” All of these tragic events teach us so much about ourselves, good and bad and admirable and despicable, our helplessness and hopefulness.

Our group’s time in New Orleans was already very poignant for me, and now it’s hauntingly so. To have walked those streets so recently. I think of the announcer’s cry as the Hindenburg burned.

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