Readership has recently spiked, so this post is a welcome to the new visitors. If you are interested the framing science discussion (which appears to be responsible for the spike) or an overview of Trinifar see the index. The overarching theme is sustainability: what is it, why care, how to frame it so it gets the attention it deserves, where’s the science behind it, what are the related political and cultural issues, what a sustainable economy might look like.
John Feeney’s excellent blog Growth is Madness! (best blog title ever) tackles similar issues. If you know of other blogs in this category please let me know.
A little while back Greg Laden tagged me with the Why Do You Blog Meme, and this seems like a great time to reply — at last. (Greg, I may be slow but now more people will see it.)
About six weeks ago, in order to clarify my own thoughts, I wrote why I blog. Re-reading that post I can’t see how I can say it any better today. But to follow the format, here’s a different and much shorter take:
- I like writing.
- I need the practice. My writing skills and style are not nearly at the level I desire — too many years writing business development, management, and engineering reports.
- I want to know much more about sustainablity and can think of no better way to learn than attempting to write intelligently about it, which means study, study, study then write, edit, write some more. Then repeat. I’m not too interested in just giving my opinions or offering links to interesting things on the net; many others do that quite well. I don’t see Trinifar providing entertainment value.
- I like being part of a community of like-minded people, where “like-minded” means people who are interested in the same or related subjects, not necessarily people who agree with my point of view. I started this blog about three months ago just to exercise my writing muscles. That it now has a steady and growing readership is a huge and welcome surprise.
- I like having an excuse to use Inkscape.
With some reservations (because I’m not at all sure these folks appreciate the meme/tagging thing) I tag the people at the following blogs to tells us why they blog:
- Memeing Naturalism
- Growth is Madness!
- Verdurous
- Ecological Economics
- Stolen Moments
- Pro-Science
- Sustainable Population
Meme background:
- meme siblings, the other blogs Greg memed when he memed me: Coturnix, Dariana, 10,000 bird people, Laelaps, Sarda, and Don.
- previous generation, Greg’s siblings: Alyx, Max, Eastwood, Edward
- other ancestors: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
- original source probably among these: here, here, here.
See also the Blog Meme Tracker: Why Do You Blog? which tries to display the whole meme graph. I’ve no idea how accurate it is, but it’s kind of cool.
I just came across a study in the PNAS that I thought you might want to take a look at – it seems to be within your area of interest.
Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities
The link goes to the abstract, that links to the full article as a pdf-file.
Thanks, Kristjan, I’ll have a look.
Hey while you are at it ( and I will post this to other sites, so DON’T accuse me of spamming!) Here is a great link for the “Other Framers”
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/
AND, a special Ffederalist fun bonus;-) Go to this link on that pagehehehehe:
“Federalist Papers in Numerical Order,
with Frames”
Also, it is important to note, that the original Framers used pseudonyms, and were never thought to be sock puppeteers, but rather, something akin to privateers;-) arghhh, where’s me napalm in the mawrnin’ blog lubbers…..
p.s. I see one reason why Nibet ended up in your spammy whammy: I tried to post this link to the O.G. Framers, and it didn’t appear, tried again, still not reflected in your pages box
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/
I don’t see this comment here yet….tried to post it last night.
Hey while you are at it ( and I will post this to other sites, so DON’T accuse me of spamming!) Here is a great link for the “Other Framers”
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/
AND, a special Federalist Framer Fun bonus;-) Go to this link on that page:
“Federalist Papers in Numerical Order,
with Frames”
Also, it is important to note, that the original Framers used pseudonyms, and were never thought to be sock puppeteers, but rather, something akin to privateers;-) arghhh, where’s me napalm in the mawrnin’ blog lubbers…..
With some reservations (because I’m not at all sure these folks appreciate the meme/tagging thing) I tag the people at the following blogs to tells us why they blog…
* Growth is Madness!
Trinifar, this is overly cutesy, overly blogospherish, smacking of chain letter shenanigans!
But I’ll see if I can fit something into the lineup. 
I hear you, John. I caved in to the tug of the darkside of link-love (a term a learned from Greg Laden whose dark path I followed by including all those links). May the force be with you in your own struggle.
We interrupt this programming for a moment of faddish blogosphere stuff: Thinking Blogger Award and Why I Blog
On Thursday, the Russ Hopfenberg post be featured.
In the meantime, there are these things called “memes” going around the blogosphere. “Meme” is a real word, though it shouldn’t be. It refers to a “unit of cultural …