second thoughts

This week in Fellowship...

Wow, it's been a busy one, my feet have barely touched the floor.

Last week's event at the Baltic in Newcastle went well; I met lots of interesting enthusiastic people, several of whom promised they would check out the Networks platform after I had demonstrated it, and were excited by the opportunity to contact more Fellows and be more involved, unhindered by geographical distance.

I also got winked at by the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. Then I got lost trying to find the station and had to jump in a taxi. But I managed to impress the driver with my knowledge of Sunderland's success under manager Roy Keane.

Back at home, I have started a social sciences course with the Open University. They are the biggest university in the UK, and the course 'Understanding Social Change' is their most popular and my tutor said that applications for the course had doubled since last year. Maybe this marks a growing appetite for social innovation and progress? Let's hope so.

It's the end of the day here, and now I'm going to do my homework. Hmm, voluntarily increasing my work load...what was I thinking?

Until next time

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(Photographs by me - this one of my insightful note taking skills)

Comments

[Matthew Taylor]

Hi Suzanne. Lovely to see you again the other evening. There was a really good article praising blogs in the NYRB http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21013. I agree with many of the criticisms of the blogosphere but in the end I think the democratising pluralistic benefits outweigh the many failings of the new medium.

[suzanne moore]

So I agree actually. How easy is it to wind up the liberal intelligentsia up by just saying most blogs are crap. Blogs are their way of being down in da hood wid da yout'. False connection Yes kids are online all the time - I live in house of teens and 20 somethings but it is not political blogs they are reading nor is it newspapers I dont kid myself. But bloggers really are kidding themselves lots of the time x