I
guess I should tell you about cloudcuckooland.
I
am an American and we build
communities.
We build religious
communities, retirement
communities, exclusive
communities, artist's
communities...whatever...even
artificial
societies. We need to do a lot of building because we often move away. Anyway,
my friends are always moving somewhere. And everybody's so busy.
Toward
the end of the 20th century, many of my friends were online but either overworked
or far away. I created an email list so we could communicate as a group even if
we could not be in the same place at the same time. Because this conversation
occurs in a non-existant place, I called the group cloudcuckooland.
It is a small but varied group (about 20 members) of old friends. Sometimes we
have parties. Sometimes we have fights.
I
started posting links to news stories that I found interesting. Sometimes a story
would spark a conversation...sometimes even an interesting conversation. Eventually
these daily news articles evolved into a public weblog.
I
can't say how the other cloudcuckoolanders feel about it, but it really gives
me a sense of connection in this atomized world. So...now you know a little
about cloudcuckooland.