Just in case you missed it

Just in case anyone had forgotten about, or actually slept through, the cacophony that was gfail 2009, here's a shot of what I spent my morning watching. (and in case you missed it all together- gfail refers to the 3-4 hour period when gmail, the very popular free google provided e-mail service, was down. down=broken=unavailable=end of the world)

For me the gfail was initially frustrating, then highly entertaining, and in the end actually a statement of the success of google gears. I could still work on everything I needed once I was over the initial shock. So congrats google.

But more importantly for all of us looking to seriously up our web game are the many implications of utilizing tools we understand little about. We are rapidly becoming entrenched in the world wide web, storing our lives with google, amazon, and on mysterious 'clouds.' While the potential is overwhelming- I never advocate following blindly down paths we just don't understand. Come on MSLSers- what's the first rule of the game? Understand the SYSTEM.

It seems to me we need to raise our collective intelligence about that complex system that is the web, and work harder as users of these tools to really understand the risks that go along with the many opportunities.

How will RAR change the face of sustainability?

In my mind, Rong Fei, Alice Marie Archer, and Rebecca Petzel are a power trio known as RAR. RAR is single handedly tackling the question, how can the FSSD be relevant to the challenges of the Net Generation.  The generation that thinks, shares, collaborates instantaneously around the globe.  Won't take no for an answer.  Sees no boundaries... How will the FSSD help them (us) shape a world our parents generation couldn't imagine.

Just thought I'd play around with a blog format to see if this was one we wanted to use...  Not attached to RAR, or the Net Gen, just attached to finding away for us to share with each other, and the world.