While exercising outside is not feasible all the time, the P90x or Wii Fit might be just the workout an environmentally-conscious jet-setter like yourself could use! I’ve given the P90x a whirl and found it ridiculously challenging, but still quite fun. And the physiological and motivational benefits of Wii Fit make for an interesting research topic, as I’ve learned this term. (http://lightfooted.ca/2009/10/asking-the-right-questions-2/).

Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll keep you posted with the latest green fitness concepts.

I’m happy to see your comment on the Wiki quote; it was indeed intentional. I’m interested in the academic validation of the community of ‘knowledge creators’ and have been pushing against the traditional boundaries of research practices. For instance, I deliberately do not use a source if it exists in a hard-copy form only. All my sources are available online, and I submit my research papers electronically with hyperlinks imbedded in the text and all references as active links. Through the small act of adding hyperlinks, the assignment transforms from a static commentary to an interactive computer-mediated communication tool (Bruns & Jacobs, 2006).

Hmmm…I think it’s interesting that you used a quote from wikipedia about this. On the one hand, wikipedia is exactly what you are writing about — the democratization of knowledge, on the other hand, we’re always warned about never really using wikipedia for anything. Everyone I know uses wikipedia kind of in secret. Don’t know a social theorist that everyone is talking about? Read about him/her on wikipedia for two minutes and I get a sense of their work and feel a little less stupid.

Anyways, that was my first thought. I think the democratization of knowledge links nicely to a lot of the work I want to do, which aims at understanding public knowledge of medicine. I wonder to what extent a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Your writing is good, Jodie!

I think you’ve just described the real power mechanism behind social media networking – it’s a web of connectivity that is expanding at rapid speeds (faster than fingers flying on a keyboard) and is almost unimaginably broad-reaching. From my experience, this web seems to be most stable when it’s built on on trust, integrity and transparency.

Taking it that extra step, then, promoting/raising awareness of green solutions through social media would seem a very effective way of creating a meaningful (if local to your social ‘followers’ or ‘friends’ or whatever cute term comes out next). But then, if they tell their friends…