April 30th, 2009 by Anitale

What is a community?
Am I part of one community or am I part of several communities?
Is a network a community? Are my friends my community?
Is it important to be recognized as a member of a community? And why?

My first step in a social network was my subscription to orkut.com. That was so many years ago that I cannot remember when exactly that was.
My first blog I wrote in winter 2002/2003 to document my New Zealand trip.

Over the years I subscribed to hundreds of social platforms. Global, national and local, private, leisure, professional, photo, blog, discussion, video, forum and groups. Did I forget something?

Whatever is important (or even not important) to me I can share it online in my social network, in my community. Sharing is easy. Most of my networks are connected to each other. It must be easy and quick.

I know, I did not answer my questions above. I think I have no wise answer.
I think I am part of several online communities. Big ones and small ones and micro communities within a big community. Sometimes I am more active and sometimes less. I noticed that a community becomes my network when I stay active.
The word “friends” need to be redefined. Or we need a new word for “real-they-care-about-me-friends”.
So, are my friends my community? Probably.
And yes it is important to be recognized as a member of a community as long as I share and contribute, I need feedback. I need to know that people care about what I share. It can be positive or negative, but I wouldn’t share if I didn’t seek for recognition.

April 11th, 2009 by Anitale

…most of the time. And I love my Chemex coffeemaker.
Does coffee taste better in a design coffee maker? Yes, it does. Because the pleasure preparing the coffee already releases all the happy chemicals in my body and drinking this coffee makes the chemicals last.

April 8th, 2009 by Anitale

It’s been a while that we were looking for “the” coffee table.
We had several tables in mind. I really like the Gae Aulenti glass table. But very expensive and needs daily cleaning.
I also love the Eames Elliptical Table. It should be an authentic one. But we never really looked for one. I don’t know why. Perhaps it was just my fantasy but not his.
What we had in mind was a factory cart. We saw it first at Anthropologie. Yes, they do sell furniture. Really old furniture. But so expensive. Abusively expensive.
But there is Alameda Flee Market. A great flee market. Miles and miles of beautiful furniture and old stuff and ONE factory cart, less then half the price of what we’ve seen at Anthropologie.
And there it is; industrial and old and I love it.

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April 3rd, 2009 by Anitale

After hours and hours painting tiny circles I eventually came to an end.
I could have bought a painting but at this size it’s difficult to find something affordable and I would have disrespected my motto: “Do it yourself.”

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April 2nd, 2009 by Anitale

No in fact it’s more an evening dolce.

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