[FRIAM] NYTimes.com: The Obama Connection

[Michael Agar]

"Herauskristalizieren" was big at the University of Vienna some years  
back. "Crystalize out" more or less. For German that's a catch phrase :)


Mike


On May 27, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Parks, Raymond wrote:

> tom at jtjohnson.com wrote:
> ...
>> A column that, whether the author realizes it or not, reflects
>> emergence. (Hmmmm. Do we need a term the equivalent of "Realpolitik"?
>> Realemerg? Or whatever the German term would be?) -tj
>
>   Emergentzy?  Or is that too Slavic?
>
>   According to Google language services, the literal translation of
> Emergence Politics would be Auftauchen Politik, which sounds way to
> complicated to be a catch-phrase.
>
>   Back to the NYT column - the author seems to conveniently ignore
> Howard Dean and Ron Paul.  They both have had great success at on-line
> fund-raising - but since they're from the Hilary generation, they  
> didn't
> really take advantage of the networking.  Paul's supporters, in
> particular, seem to have had to do the networking on their own.
>
>   One aspect of the on-line, social network culture that the author
> (also of the wrong generation based on his picture alone) ignores is  
> the
> ephemereal nature of social networks.  Who remembers sixdegrees or the
> many other social networks that existed long before myspace or  
> facebook?
>  They were all fads or just unlucky - some factor (butterfly wings in
> the web?) just didn't happen to push them over the threshold.  Heck,
> even the current social networking sites are being supplanted.
>
>   Another aspect the author ignores is the fickleness of on-line  
> social
> networks.  All it takes is a catchy rumour and suddenly the favourite
> son (or daughter) will be cast-off and ignored.
>
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