trees are people too

Feeling slightly intimidated by the activity on mog. People seem to be developing quite sophisticated and profound ideas for their manifestos while I flap around struggling with the most simple of concepts. Reading others blogs it is clear many are in the same boat, but how and where does it end? I shall take faith in Adrian’s assurance that we will learn by doing, that it will become clear only as we start to create. By defying the control freak in me, this creative process is an excellent learning curve… but i feel trapped! (Like a moth in a bath!) With two other major major assignments due, all I can hope for is to give this my best shot. Post submission of other work I will be able to focus on this a bit more (I know, whine whine shut up etc.)

Meanwhile, I thought I would do a bit more research into emergence, as I feel it will be valuable to link out to this topic from my manifesto. Wiki has a good entry to start me off. It outlines the concepts of systems and patterns, but it all gets a bit scientific. Other interesting reads are ‘Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem‘ by J Naughton, and ‘The future of Marketing Communication: Towards an “Ecosystem of connected experiences” in a multi-channel, connected world‘ via Nyenrode University, but none of these are as simple or as elegant as Adrian’s explanation in class. The search continues, and will inquire with Adrian too.