| Jon Lebkowsky on Wed, 21 May 2008 00:34:04 +0200 (CEST) |
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Sad news. Steve was just an explosion of virtual energy around community networking, and a true digital explorer. For the longest time, he was everywhere you looked. More than one community will feel his loss. ~ Jon On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:41 AM, David garcia <davidg@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 20 May 2008, at 04:15, t byfield wrote: > > > Steve Cisler passed away on Thursday 15 May, from a medical condition > > he'd known about for several years, which had worsened over the last > > several months. His wife, Nancy, said that he was with his entire family > > -- which had grown in the last few years -- and that he was relaxed and > > accepting as his health faded. > > I was shocked and upset to hear this morning of Steve Cisler's passing and > very grateful for Ted's tribute and portrait. This helped to fill out the > picture for those of us for whom Steve meant a great deal but who were not > fortunate enough to have known him as a personal friend. Those involved in > putting together The Next 5 Minutes will know him as someone who > contributed important content, ideas and knowledge very generously and > often invisibly. In this (and many other) contexts his experience, sense > of history and proportion had the effect of litrally grounding us. Steve > was a fatherly man without ever being patronizing. <...> -- Jon Lebkowsky 512 762-6547 AIM, Skype: jonlzebub Blogs: http://weblogsky.com | http://worldchanging.com | http://e-patients.net | http://smartmobs.com Companies: http://polycotassociates.com | http://socialwebstrategies.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonl ------=_Part_2219_3308631.1211296441305 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sad news. Steve was just an explosion of virtual energy around community networking, and a true digital explorer. For the longest time, he was everywhere you looked. More than one community will feel his loss.<br><br>~ Jon<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:41 AM, David garcia <<a href="mailto:davidg@xs4all.nl";>davidg@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On 20 May 2008, at 04:15, t byfield wrote:<br> <br> > Steve Cisler passed away on Thursday 15 May, from a medical condition<br> > he'd known about for several years, which had worsened over the last<br> > several months. His wife, Nancy, said that he was with his entire family<br> > -- which had grown in the last few years -- and that he was relaxed and<br> > accepting as his health faded.<br> <br> </div>I was shocked and upset to hear this morning of Steve Cisler's passing and<br> very grateful for Ted's tribute and portrait. This helped to fill out the<br> picture for those of us for whom Steve meant a great deal but who were not<br> fortunate enough to have known him as a personal friend. Those involved in<br> putting together The Next 5 Minutes will know him as someone who<br> contributed important content, ideas and knowledge very generously and<br> often invisibly. In this (and many other) contexts his experience, sense<br> of history and proportion had the effect of litrally grounding us. Steve<br> was a fatherly man without ever being patronizing.<br> <br> Ted describes him as 'a material guy' and so emboldened, I hope it won't<br> sound trivial to say that the first impression he usually made was of was<br> as an impressive physical presence. A large hansomly craggy man who, (on<br> his regular visits to the european media culture events) seemed to have<br> stepped right out of a classic western, legendary cayak on the ready to<br> navigate the amsterdam canals. But the frontiersman image was soon<br> contradicted by the fact that nothing he ever said or did suggested any<br> hint of aggression much less heroic posturing. Nevertheless in a context<br> often rife with mindless 'America bashing' he brought with him some<br> valuable and frequently forgotten atmospherics of an older America, a<br> Whitman like sense of large open spaces and an atmosphere of solitude even<br> in his sociality.<br> <br> I am sure that Ted is right in saying that he was not utopian but his way<br> of life seemed to suggest the quest for a certain kind of freedom and<br> candor. He was devoid of any trace of crass individualism but there was<br> an attractive quality of self sufficiency, a deep independance of mind an<br> spirit. I do hope that those nearest and dearest to Steve realise how much<br> and how widely he will be missed.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> <br> David<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> <br> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission<br> # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,<br> # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets<br> # more info: <a href="http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l"; target="_blank">http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l</a><br> # archive: <a href="http://www.nettime.org"; target="_blank">http://www.nettime.org</a> contact: <a href="mailto:nettime@kein.org";>nettime@kein.org</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jon Lebkowsky<br>512 762-6547<br>AIM, Skype: jonlzebub<br>Blogs: <a href="http://weblogsky.com";>http://weblogsky.com</a> | <a href="http://worldchanging.com";>http://worldchanging.com</a> | <a href="http://e-patients.net";>http://e-patients.net</a> | <a href="http://smartmobs.com";>http://smartmobs.com</a><br> Companies: <a href="http://polycotassociates.com";>http://polycotassociates.com</a> | <a href="http://socialwebstrategies.com";>http://socialwebstrategies.com</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/jonl";>http://twitter.com/jonl</a> ------=_Part_2219_3308631.1211296441305-- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org