Garbage. I'm cleaning my garage tonight and part of that is crushing cardboard for the weekly recycling, and I'm shocked (somehow, I am shocked every week) by the sheer amount of garbage I generate.

Right now I'm coming to see paper the way people on their way to vegetarianism come to see meat.

I don't think I'll ever be able to buy a dead tree newspaper again, I feel gross about the free newspapers that come to the door and I think only books that I'll want to re-read at least a couple times will ever sit on my bookshelf again.

I have what I've coined a 'hypocrite footprint' - I believe any living creature has to, especially those of us in complicated human society - which basically means, my ability to ignore things that I do that have negative consequences can only go so far before I act on it. The inverse, I suppose, of a 'carbon footprint'.

I'm coming up to the limit I can soak on paper: even coffee cups are starting to make me shudder.

I love hearing people assert that 'hub and spoke' society is an expired mode and that distributed code/social components and crowd sourcing/cloud computing is bringing a new aspect to the way people think about interaction.

Great examples: like how Canadian Broadcasting Corporation -a monolithic, government-sponsored mainstream media entity- is embracing bittorrent, podcasting and small-scale, widespread communication.

Love it!

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