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On a slightly different note that has to do with technology and media (and web design), i was reading worldchanging.com this morning and one of the recent articles focuses on a relatively new module for drupal called "aggregator2": Aggregator2 turns the Drupal platform into a powerful tool for news tracking and republishing by offering options for customizing news feeds, tagging news items, and moderating incoming news.”  we could incorporate this into our platform design.  http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004355.html#more

When I read this I went into jumptime, into the future, highest possibilities and potentials, and was inspired to think of what kinds of news feeds would an evolutionary community/network have.  How would we design that into the current layout.  If the future is already here, and it’s just unevenly distributed (says William Gibson and others), how might we tap into that more enlightened news and stories that are inspiring our culture and planet toward new ways of being (i think of imaginify.net that jair is intimately involved with). 

So, what are the first elegant steps toward initiating such a thing.  Maybe we could have a place where we’d put in all our collective favorite sites/media/newswires/stories from those more "evolutionary" sources (broad and diverse definition) and communities that are growing rapidly around the planet.  what would such a newswire look like.  this is a seed for later down the road in terms of planning.
I'm inspired by thinking of evolutionary nexus as a place for sharing news and information from more enlightened sources.  even while i love the work of worldchanging and yes magazine and ode magazine and omidyar and the wisdom channel (no longer operational) and up and coming betterment media, and the ones that are still coming into being, I wonder for us now, what are the first elegant steps toward initiating such a thing.  What could such a newswire be for us now.  I believe there is a niche waiting to be filled. 
A group of us touched on this seed idea at the last evolutionary salon in january in one of the "big media" sessions (big as in big mind media).  we talked about “polling” all the people who have come to the salons and asking them about their favorite sites/news stories/other....so we could create a kind of repository for these ideas – what are the “evolutionary wake makers” – an idea virus for the evolutionary community.  We merely planted a seed and then the salon finished and we all went on our way.  So it emerged again for me today when I read about Aggregator2 for Drupal….
Perhaps an evolutionary media salon is something we could initiate.  I know several people who are very excited about this idea.  Maybe we could combine it with emergent technology as well.  but the role evolutionary nexus can play in this conversation is very interesting to me - a nexus for the stories that the evolutionary agents are reading and are inspired by…. 
Ahhh, eager for this conversation.  Warmly, Sheri