Dispatches from Dotland
Things seemed quiet in Dotland and Libraryland today but is there revolt simmering under the surface? Is this the calm before the storm? And which storm, summer rain or Katrina?
Silver is rumored to have been seen with the White Queen. Will the White Queen come to the aid of Libraryland and Dotland? The ghost of Silver was again reported in Dotland, looking somewhat more solid. The Dots wait more developments with bated breath.

On another note, I read Daniel Pink's "A whole new mind" and here are some notes from that. He says that we have gone from the Industrial Age, revolving around the assembly line worker, to the Information Age, revolving around the "knowledge worker" and the associated "left-brain" skills, and are now entering the conceptual age where the left-brain skills have to be supplemented with right brain skills. The aptitudes of the conceptual age are "high concept" and "high touch". This blog is very high concept in that it's full of references that will be meaningless to most people in the outside Real World, full of jokes that only make sense in Dotland and LibraryLand. And Dotland definitely has a nonlinear relationship to the Real World. High touch refers to all of those touchy-feely things that techies are supposed to sneer at. Anyway the six skills, "senses", that Daniel Pink says will be necessary in the Conceptual Age are:
Design, not just function
http://www.sagmeister.com
http://www.karimrashid.com
http://www.animatrix.com
http://www.dcontinuum.com
Story, not just argument (this blog is all about Story, the Black Dot Queen is all about argument)
Digital storytelling http://www.iusedtobelieve.com
Symphony, not just focus
The 5 line self-portrait http://www.the5line.com
Empathy, not just logic
Empathy quotient http://www.tinyurl.com/9qdi
Systematizing quotient (male brain) http://www.tinyurl.com/9qdk
Fake smile vs real smile http://www.tinyurl.com/2u7sh
Watch the eyes http://www.tinyurl.com/277vm
Play, not just seriousness
http://www.laughteryoga.org/
http://www.inventionatplay.org/
Humor test http://www.tinyurl.com/6t7ff
Meaning, not just assets
Spiritual Transcendence Scale http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~rpiedmont/stsr.htm
Index of Core Spiritual Experience
http://www.tinyurl.com/5sz7u
Virtual Labyrinth http://www.labyrinthsociety.org