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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Mike<BR>
I, too, was turned off by Ms. Lovely. Lame.<BR>
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I see two options. Ignore the whole New Cities effort, or take matters into our own hands. Surely this community is able to facilitate input gathering if we want.<BR>
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The disadvantage of doing the vision gathering that New Cities suggests using V2020 is that all the ideas can’t be seen in one place — they are scattered in the archives among other conversations.<BR>
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To that end, I made space for it to happen in MoscowWiki (<a href="http://moscowwiki.editme.com/NewCities)">http://moscowwiki.editme.com/NewCities)</a> . Maybe no one will take me up on it, we'll see. Personally, I'd rather take a few minutes composing my vision of Moscow ( see <a href="http://moscowwiki.editme.com/NewCitiesBeHeard)">http://moscowwiki.editme.com/NewCitiesBeHeard)</a> than spend several hours, get my minute at the mic, and then have it poorly transcribed<BR>
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I think it would be valuable to have a Be Heard section on distopias to be avoided, in addition to the NewCities prompt. <BR>
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On 10/3/05 4:09 PM, "Michael Curley" <curley@turbonet.com> wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> Nils:<BR>
> Will the folks who facilitate this event know a little more about <BR>
> Moscow than those who talked about getting a good potato at Hyper <BR>
> Spud last time? Maybe we need spirit, maybe we need a kick in the <BR>
> butt, but if we need a cheerleader, let's not hire one from out of <BR>
> town for a bunch of money. The UI, WSU, and for that matter, the <BR>
> local high schools have plenty--most of whom probably know that we <BR>
> don't grow many potatoes in this part of Idaho.<BR>
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> Enthusiasm is great, but uneducated forced enthusiasm is a real turn-<BR>
> off.<BR>
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> Mike Curley<BR>
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