Full Circle Associates

I get a bit grumpy when events come to my city and I'm not there to play. Sorry to all of my pals who I missed while you were here in Seattle. I have taken a spin through the BBS blog to read what went on and found links to two interesting slide shows. I link to them for a couple of reasons. First, I'm interested in the content and I hope I find some podcasts to listen to what the speakers said. Second, they are interesting uses of PPT from a visual perspective.

Tara Hunt's Community or Commodity?(application/pdf Object) and Maryam and Robert Scobles Ten Ways to a Killer Blog (which uses Hugh's cartoons as the visuals.)

Tara, the simplicity of the white words on a black field was nice and clean. It made me want to hear your words. I wonder what would happen if you thought about changing "vs" to "and" in some of those slides? I have been playing a lot with the idea of how to work creatively with tensions which, on first glance, are in opposition. In reality, they exist in an everchanging yin and yang. So how do we get adept at looking at them that way (complex systems?) and using the tension generatively?

Maryam and Robert, I love the visual nature of the slides with Hugh's cartoons, even if they are a bit...um... cynical? :-) Here is my question for you: what would be another word for "killer?" This stems from my hopeless pollyanna thought of how we move from a culture of fear to a culture of love. Part of that may be finding alternatives to war-based language.