Inagural post
Here was the pitch I made to the group regarding this blog's potential scope:
It could be quite eclectic, spanning geographies and backgrounds — journalism, design, law, photography, cinema, psychology, business, gossip ... San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, Tampa... It would serve, primarily, as a way for us to share interesting links, stories, analysis, news, opinions etc. with each other — either original content or found elsewhere. It wouldn't be about vanity, but variety. I could see it being a fun enough read to attract others.
We already e-mail this stuff, so why not make it a bit more centralized and permanent? It would be our collective zeitgeist; a table of contents for what intrigues us. Our Wunderkammer — a German word meaning, roughly, "cabinet of curiosities."
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I googled wunderkamme and found as the definition "wonder room" and that wunderkammer means a "wonder chamber" and that sounds a little bit creepy. Plus, I hope kottke doesn't think we are imitating.
Here is the wikipedia explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities
We are imitating kottke ... but I think that's just fine. You know, sincerest form of flattery, and such.
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