[FRIAM] NYTimes.com: The Obama Connection

[Tom Johnson]

I like "Emergentzy."  Easy to remember and probably easy to spell.

"The system's current state of emergentzy."

And it could be "emergentzied" and "emergentzing."

-T

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Parks, Raymond <rcparks at sandia.gov> 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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