Devil's Advocate: Federal Europe | 32 comments (32 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Devil's Advocate: Federal Europe (4.00 / 2)

Yeah, but at least we haven't shot each other up for a couple of years.

I'm not certain that old-fashioned ideas like a powerful federal government are necessarily the best way of organising in the current era, and in any case the EU is a pretty unusual entity: I'm happy for it to evolve into something different.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Apr 3rd, 2009 at 09:56:39 AM EST

Re: Devil's Advocate: Federal Europe (none / 1)

I'm quite keen on the fact that the EU has massive redundancy and undetermined shifting centres of power. Bit like the brain, really.

What I really believe is that we are at 1 minute to midnight, on a day in classic democracy. Having watched Dr Albert A. Bartlett.

Confirmation came from this evening's Helsinki soirée with Adam Greenfield, author of Ubiquitous Computing. I've found another person I can talk to seriously.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Apr 3rd, 2009 at 04:35:48 PM EST
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Re: Devil's Advocate: Federal Europe (none / 1)

I don't make a real distinction between virtual and RW colleagues. But the fact remains that the good old behavioural rewards are harder to achieve virtually. And thus virtually reinforcement is a slower process. Not necessarily a bad thing.

So a few colleagues and I decided to set up something called Open Zeiteist or OZ. A once a month ´lounge' meeting for about 20 interesting people active in all things Web 2.0. This was our 2nd meeting. It went rather well.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Apr 3rd, 2009 at 05:07:25 PM EST
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Re: Devil's Advocate: Federal Europe (none / 0)

Why don't you web 2.0 those meetings?

by vladimir on Sat Apr 4th, 2009 at 12:53:08 PM EST
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Devil's Advocate: Federal Europe | 32 comments (32 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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