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    <title>cmdln.net_2007-11-07</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Few additional notes on tribe">
        <outline text="Households in living history similar to bands or tribes"/>
        <outline text="Mutual fan-boy-ism"/>
        <outline text="Having fun also a common characteristic of my tribe"/>
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      <outline text="A little hoarse from earlier recording, completed interview with Professor Lessig"/>
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    <outline text="Word of the Week: copious free time" Offset="04:09">
      <outline text="http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/copious-free-time.html"/>
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    <outline text="Monologue: Tribe" Offset="05:12">
      <outline text="Haven't reflect on the nature of my newfound tribe">
        <outline text="Matt Selznick first really identified what many of us feel"/>
        <outline text="Based on his experience at Balticon"/>
        <outline text="For me, first connections were at Farpoint, in February"/>
        <outline text="Fewer, closer connections grew into many more, broader connections"/>
        <outline text="Really connected with local friends"/>
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      <outline text="Defined by shared culture, dialect">
        <outline text="Traditionally also denoted familial relationship"/>
        <outline text="Band may be more accurate as doesn't necessarily speak to blood ties"/>
        <outline text="Tribe feels right, though, somehow"/>
        <outline text="Encompasses many different relationships"/>
        <outline text="Close friends to mere acquaintances"/>
        <outline text="All share a culture and a certain way of thinking, speaking, seeing"/>
        <outline text="Reminds me of stories of early homebrew computer clubs, phreakers and hackers"/>
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      <outline text="Why?">
        <outline text="Generally, easy to talk about change from extended family to nuclear">
          <outline text="Also, fewer purely social settings, in US perhaps because of work fixation"/>
          <outline text="Puritan work ethic gone awry, guilt over socializing just for fun?"/>
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        <outline text="Perhaps reaction to increasing globalization">
          <outline text="As the world grows larger, feel smaller, disconnected"/>
          <outline text="Finding smaller, self selected groups easier to relate, ground"/>
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        <outline text="For me, family is physically distant">
          <outline text="My family is full of loners, though"/>
          <outline text="Strong, shared geek streak with mother, brother"/>
          <outline text="Do have fond memories growing of my parents with their tribe"/>
          <outline text="Massive Summer parties, silly in-jokes I didn't get at the time"/>
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        <outline text="For wife, family is local">
          <outline text="She is closer to her family, sees them every week"/>
          <outline text="Only some of her family shares her geekiness"/>
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        <outline text="Neither of us have found social settings with like minded individuals"/>
        <outline text="Conventions filled some of that"/>
        <outline text="Tribe mates more like minded within the large setting of convention goers"/>
        <outline text="All creative types, very open and sharing"/>
        <outline text="Mutual respect for that creativity, for skill, dedication"/>
        <outline text="A particular sense of humor, off kilter, intelligent but strange"/>
        <outline text="A sense of kinship for having been outcasts, misfits"/>
        <outline text="Not unusual for a con, but somehow different from general geekdom"/>
        <outline text="Had similar experience with historical re-enactment">
          <outline text="Many of the same kinds of people"/>
          <outline text="Geeks, misfits"/>
          <outline text="The organization we played with was highly politicized"/>
          <outline text="Current tribe is mostly egalitarian"/>
          <outline text="There is some drama, not quite politics"/>
          <outline text="But it is in minority and majority seems to frown on or just tolerate"/>
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      <outline text="Uneasy lessons">
        <outline text="Many of the relationships are conducted online"/>
        <outline text="I warned in my social spaces monologue that changing spaces can change the nature of the relationship"/>
        <outline text="Despite multiplicity of tools, still not the same as face-to-face"/>
        <outline text="Share creative works is one thing"/>
        <outline text="On recent trip, shared hospitality"/>
        <outline text="Hadn't seen any of these people's homes"/>
        <outline text="For the most part, was fine"/>
        <outline text="Had one sharp reminder that despite the persistent online connection, many of these friends are new, not much face time"/>
        <outline text="Even in that one case, though, values of honesty, despising drama, served well"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="26:51">
      <outline text="Contact me">
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