{"id":252,"date":"2004-12-20T13:20:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=252"},"modified":"2004-12-20T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:20:05","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/20\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--110356906204012855--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just finished the heaviest lifting in restructuring things at GlobalChicago.NET&#8230; making distinctions, cleaning up the parts, and reshaping my own mind a bit.  The latter task being really the central affair, and accomplishment.  I guess i make it so public just in case it&#8217;s of use to anyone else.   And for the pressure or energy that comes when you bring and share your attention here, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>For some time, &#8220;my work&#8221; has been a sort of undifferentiated, but definitely expanding universe.  As of this weekend, some real clarity has emerged&#8230; planets, I suppose.  Or maybe I should hope they are suns?  Either way, these chunks suddenly seem real enough to stand on their own, or go away:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\">GlobalChicago<\/a> is now presented more clearly than ever as a hosting project.  \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/mha\">MichaelHermanAssociates<\/a> offerings and explanations are significantly updated and evolved.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\">SmallChangeNews<\/a> is giving in action, and wanting to come alive next.  \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/ost\">OpenSpaceTech<\/a> is a simple and deep facilitator learning and practice resource archive and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspaceworld.org\">OpenSpaceWorld<\/a> (which I manage) finally feels really stable on its own.<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, this weblog, though I&#8217;ve been recently questionning it&#8217;s future, suddenly seems to have some purpose in sorting out how these pieces play together, an intricate web of informing and depending on each other.   <\/p>\n<p>The most interesting phenomenon in all of this is that even though I&#8217;m obviously still the primary instigator of all of them, all of these pieces suddenly feel significantly more separate from &#8220;me.&#8221;  Some of them have their own domain names, and MichaelHerman.com has really been in the background&#8230; until now.  <\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend I made a central page for myself.  Just me.  Michael Herman.  No Associates.  No Global.  No Network.  Not even any initials or credentials.  It was refreshing and a wee bit startling to  have just me, and a simple little list of the things I do, there on one main splashy sort of page.  Simple.  It seems something new is emerging.  The old forms can die if they want to.  Something new is emerging&#8230; and it has the same name as me.  How curious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished the heaviest lifting in restructuring things at GlobalChicago.NET&#8230; making distinctions, cleaning up the parts, and reshaping my own mind a bit. The latter task being really the central affair, and accomplishment. I guess i make it so public just in case it&#8217;s of use to anyone else. And for the pressure or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/20\/whats-in-a-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Name?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}