sigh
“Thanks David! Am I to take it that you are scheduling Lunch 2.0 at Microsoft as the next Lunch 2.0? Awesome. I just love your initiative. Go them tiger! :)”
I love it. Having unconferences and creating “online” projects where the goal is to create the next unconference. brilliant. hopefully we’re reaching our logical absurd limit where the simple goal is to produce the next “new”. Remember, as long as it’s innovation….
:-\
at some point, I hope the emphasis switches from awareness-raising and “networking” to “doing”. I’ve been trying to throw that switch in regards to my own practice. Time will tell. (update- that’s kinda overly critical to my own work. I think I have always been oriented towards doing - what I’m frustrated about is my own prior naivete about participating in celebrating the new and using (and continuing to use?) the empty hype).
to compare the practice of creating change through repackaging lunch versus on the ground doing - The pink vigilantes: The Indian women fighting for women’s rights. via Mir.
“On my own I have no rights but together, as the Gulabi Gang, we have power.”
It would be an unfair comparaison if *2.0 as a whole didn’t get more press than local organizing for justice for women as a whole.
And Darin Barney’s lecture on friday was freakin great.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I think what we should start is a gang of critical technologists who all wear some sort of uniform (I am thinking gym-master jogging suits for stealth) and have water guns. We bust into any un* anything, and soak the attendees while screaming “MASTURBATORY SELF-CONGRATULATORY GEEKS!” then we run away really quickly and drink beer. The trick is to run quickly because the MSCG’s will follow because they will think it is a ’smart-mob’ and they will want to join and look cool. (and meet hot chicks in sweats) let’s call it FUCK THIS 2.0.
God do I sound angry… That post though - ‘lunch 2.0′ I thought that was called having friends?
March 16th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
sounds like a plan.
but I think the key is not to call it anything. I’m in the beginning of Jose Saramago’s book Seeing and I unlabeled dissent seems like a really powerful idea.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:27 am
My favorite part of the “lunch 2.0″ business is that they say it is “a web-2.0 approach to the problem of meeting people”
Jesus, if you think meeting people is a problem, I really *don’t* want to have to suffer through your social software solution.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
you know, I would laugh if I was not so busy vomiting.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
You know, now that Alison mentions it. I thought the internets in general were the (possibly overexploited) technological solution to the ‘real-world’ problem of meeting people, I don’t think it should be backwards compatible. There’s going for lunch and there’s making an online cv. You don’t go for lunch as a form of online social capital generation - that is accurately described as vomitous.