parallel
Deepnorth: a year to the north pole is now complete and I am in the development stage for this year's blog. One of the primary discoveries of 2005's daily web research about the north pole is that it is a site multiply interconnected with so many issues pressing today: particularly global climate change, political borders, and technology. My own insights into the situation in the circumpolar region are largely a pastiche of information, opinions, and meditations by others in many disciplines: science, art, information technologies, history, exploration, political science, etc. To that end, I'd like to structure this year's blog around collecting voices from the field, so to speak, from scientists, researchers, technologists whose work is currently formulating our understanding of the north. Can I convince these people to blog their progress in their work from time to time? What will happen when these diverse voices are set side by side, as their singular progress in their labs, offices, studios marches forward? What would be the effect of this pole site, that might allow them to see more daily inside the minds of comrades in fields similar and seemingly diverse? A list of possible authors is being drawn up.