Beginning Thoughts-- Kent Palmer

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Beginning Thoughts
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I have been experimenting with Scribd.com. It

is a site where you can upload documents. I
THOUGHTS AT THINK.NET
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uploaded several of my books in printable

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form there.
Kent D. Palmer, Ph.D.
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Here is a sample of the books that I have

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714-633-9508
• Reflexive Autopoietic Systems Theory
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palmer@think.net
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o This is a series of research

Copyright 2007 K.D. Palmer.
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Systems Theory
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Special Systems Theory which
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book above.
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• Fragmentation of Being and the Path
I have been thinking about the whole problem Beyond the Void
of bloging. And I am concerned about the loss o This is a book on the structure
of content in bloging. One of the reasons I of the Western Worldview.
stopped participating in Email lists is that one • Wild Software Meta-Systems
spends a great amount of time communicating o This is a book on Software
and then all that content is lost. Blogs have the Engineering Design Methods.
same problem, but instead the content goes
into the archive and is thus lost from view that
way. They are also available at
http://works.bepress.com/kent-palmer
I think I finally figured out how to solve this
problem. What I would like to try is to save the These books have been on the internet since
files to the new service Scribd.com and make they were first published by my own Apeiron
each one a stand alone document. In this way Press electronically. However, up until now I
the individual documents can have a life of have not allowed them to be printed. However,
their own and not merely get list in a vast I realized that they are unlikely to ever be
archive on the Blog. I can place a link to the published in any other form so I decided to
document in Scribd.com on the blogsite. release the printable versions though
repositories. The idea is to point Google
My goal is to write thought capsules with Scholar at the repositories so that my material
which can stand alone, but which can appear as gets indexed into Google Scholar, which is
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then accessible to all the schools thougout the
world.
It is interesting when you release material at
Scribd because they give you a way of tracking
by geography how many people are looking at
your material. That gives you a sense that what
you have written is actually being looked at,
but of course you don’t know by whom.
Interacting with Scribd gave me the idea that I
could do the same thing they have done with
their internal blog, i.e. just make every post a
stand alone document. That way there is
longevity to the posts and there is a separate
distribution mechanism for the thought
capsuals besides the blog which could easily
go away and vanish.
Digital Things tend to Vanish
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Dave Weiner at Scripting News (Home >
Weblog Archive > 2007 > March > 1) has
eloquently said what I am concerned about
with regard to my own intellectual content that
I have produced over the years. So I started
looking for repositories, and so far I have
found two that will accept my material. One is
the Berkley Electronic Press Selected Papers
archive and the other is Scribd.com. I am still
considering the Internet Archive. What I want
really is an archive that allows Independent
Scholars to preserve their materials. But all
schools that I know of lock out independent
scholars from their repositories. I would like to
find a good solution for this problem, but for
now Scribd.com is a good enough solution.
Reference:
http://www.scripting.com/
http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/01/preserv
ingIdeas.html
A New Beginning
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So with this technical problem solved, at least
for the present, and in a specific way, I have
decided to start a series of Thought Capsules at
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Think.net. I am going to try to make these
tutorial in nature as much as I can, so that they
are something that one might want to read not
just now but in the future. Most of what we see
in Blogs is anchored to the moment. On the
other hand my most successful publication on
the internet was a tutorial I did about the
ontology of Autopoietic Theory. See
http://archonic.net/tutor.htm. So it seems to
me that the best thing I can do is produce a
series of tutorial like articles about thoughts
and thinking and thinkers in general and my
thoughts in particular. The series will be called
“thoughts at think.net.” If you want to respond
to these thoughts with thoughts of your own
you can send a message to
thoughts@think.net. Or you can respond at the
blog at http://think.net/blog.
History
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The thinknet Newsletter was originally
created in 1991. You can get some idea of the
history by looking at a presentation on
thinknet. See Thinknet Presentation. You can
see the newsletter at Online Book Initiative. I
started the Thinknet News letter to gather up
ideas about philosophy across the internet. I
have been cited as one of the first people to
talk about online universities in that newsletter.
From that newsletter I started the Dialognet
Email lists that appeared at world.std.com and
then later at my own BBS at think.net, and
then later at egrups.com which were bought by
yahoogroups.com. Those lists are now hosted
at yahoogroups.com and accessed though the
http://dialog.net site. So I have been an email
list administrator for many years. But email
lists are becoming passé besides being
spammed to death. So now we enter the world
of bloging. See http://youbiquitous.net. I have
been very reluctant to really begin bloging in
earnest, because I could not figure out how to
approach it, but also because I have been
caught up in my research project, see
http://holonomic.net. But now that I have
figured out that I can create stand alone
documents which are attached to my blog, I
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think I can begin trying to express what I want

to say in the blogosphere. I suppose it will
end up being a random walk though the forest
of my ideas and the jungle of the ideas of the
thinkers of the world. But that much cannot be
helped.

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I am also trying an experiment with XML

embedding into the document so that the parts
of the document can be found later in case I
want to reformat the text. The idea is not to
have a schema that is valid, so much as using
tags so that content can be found if the Word
document is dumped to text format. This may
be more trouble than it is worth.

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Author:
Kent D. Palmer, Ph.D. Thinker and
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Philosopher by inclination; System and Meta-

system Theorist by design; Systems and
Software Engineer by trade. See
http://archonic.net/kent_palmer.html. See also
http://think.net, http://dialog.net,
http://archonic.net, http://autopoietic.net.
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