The Starship Cruiser

The original idea that I had for Six Degrees of Blogging was to voyage beyond those with whom I am familiar.  Working from blogrolls, I would visit someone and if I found them interesting I'd include that person in the adventure.  The problem was I'd travel to four or five folks and run into sites without blogrolls.  Backtracking was too time consuming. 

To me, life is a journey, a voyage, a yellow brick road.  And to travel, one needs a vehicle.  I have decided to use The Starship Cruiser for all future adventures.

Starship Cruiser Mission - To explore and discover the universe of different; to RadioBack the coordinates of those who are adding value to the lives of others by means of voice and heart; and who refuse to deviate one degree from being human and not digress into the monolithic overtones of corporate rhetoric.

Along with two other gents, I built the Starship Cruiser back in the late nineties for a community based Web site of ours.  This was my description of her then and the one I will continue to use:

She travels at speeds beyond human comprehension. Her size fluctuates according to occupants. Her structure is metamorphic, ever-changing as it incorporates the new technology and business ideas of those on board. The Starship Cruiser is a vehicle built to vaporize boundaries and limitations. She will take us to the very brink of our imaginations. And with but a glimpse of visions to be, she engages the afterburners…………….blasting us forward, screaming to shatter the barriers of conventional thinking and complacency. How can a ship accomplish such noble tasks you ask? Because her fuel is the collective passion of those on board. The passion to learn, share knowledge, information and ideas. Through this collaborative effort she reaches destinations impossible for one human being or……………..alien.

I am going to transition away from the title Six Degrees of Blogging to something I haven't quite been able to put my laser on, but I know it's something more*.  And instead of the blogroll thing I am going to program serendipity into the Starship's computer banks.  Program serendipity.  Doesn't the sound of that want to make your left and right brain come together?...like two opposite sides of a magnet?

A driving force behind the Starship Cruiser can be found in the words of Albert Einstein: "It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same level of knowledge that created them."  I hope you join us in future missions here and relish in the diversity of our crew.

In need of help:  I need a really radical, beasty-looking graphic that we can use here for the Starship. Also, I will need to collect the links of folks we visit in a place here for easy access.  Any ideas?

*I wrote this post when transitioning from my old blog Wiz Speak to Rothacker Reviews.  I feel I'm getting one step closer to "something more."  By the way, if you haven't picked up a copy of Tom Ehrenfeld's book The Startup Garden, do so right away!!  Tom is an awesome writer with an awesome message!

Comments

[Steve Sherlock]

Dave, maybe the wiki idea I have would work for the listing. I'll do a little more exploring and send you a link.

On the graphic, I am not a designed but I know a good one when I see it so I'll be looking for you.

[dave]

Thanks Steve!

[tim]

Dave...perhaps I can assist with your logo. If you can give me a little more direction and clarity on what you consider "radical, beasty-looking" I could probably crank something out for you.

Email me your thoughts and I'll send you a concept or two.

[dave]

Thanks Tim!!!!!!!!!