Snippets, 8/4/2008
July was a bit of a slow month as I was wrapping things up at Google, but we now have some key initiatives underway:
News
Comments
I’d like to use this blog partly for feedback on our ideas, but posts don’t seem to get a lot of comments. If anyone is out there, can you comment on why that is? :). What changes would make you comment more? Is it the subject matter, the interface, or something else?
Snippets, 7/7/2008
- Community
- I will probably attend / speak at the Convergence 2008 Unconference in Mountain View on November 15th-16th. Bay Area futurists may want to check it out, it looks to be interesting.
- Website stats. June was a fair bit under May but better than April. Averaged 1900 visits/day and 7500 pages/day (this doesn’t include the wiki).
More time for Seasteading
As many of you know, in addition to my responsibilities at TSI, I have a day job at Google. Having two jobs has been stressful, especially with the lack of alignment in having my passions one place and my time another. Therefore I have given notice at Google, and will be leaving at the end of July.
Wayne: Seastead Community
A guest post from TSI co-founder Wayne Gramlich about his vision for the evolution of seastead communities:
Save The Date: October 9th/10th
Our first annual conference will be Friday, October 10th, at Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA. There will also be a reception Thursday evening (10/9), and an informal breakfast Saturday morning (10/11).
RSS feed of all site changes
I have just enabled a feed for all comments on the site. Most importantly, this will include all replies to forum messages, so you can keep track of all the forums with a single feed. I’m not sure if it also contains initial forum posts, but if not, you can get them with this feed.
Snippets through 6/23/2008
With my injured shoulder, work has been slow this month.
Migration
Vince Cate has written an excellent wiki page on Migration:
Why not buy a remote third-world island?
This question is common enough that it is in our FAQ (although buying land and taking over an entire country are answered together – should fix that). Adam from the Floatingman Island project, recently said:
