About '93 the Finnish state Telecom asked a group of us to supply content for the first Finnish HTML site as a demo, and I was involved in a lot of conversations with engineers that awakened my interest in the social implications of bottom-up connectivity. I've been tracking developments in this area ever since. Dkos turned up on my radar in 2002/3 and then Booman Tribune where I was a regular poster (and even invented 'Froggy Bottom'). That's where I heard about Jérôme and followed efforts to set up a European version.
I have moved politically leftward ever since ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
Then in the aftermath of Katrina DKos became the single best place to get information and commentary on what was going on. During the month of September 2005 I hung out at DKos, and one day I caught Jerome's signature and here I am. The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler
Juan Cole is a kind of Strange Attractor in all this
I was on kuro5hin during the Iraq war brawling days, before it turned into a cesspit of trolling. I left about the time that rusty became an admin for dkos during the American election campaign. -- $E(X_t|F_s) = X_s,\quad t > s$
