Dear Mark Zimmerman,

I feel encouraged to find our Minciu Sodas mentioned in your Wiki! I
share your musings, presumed copyright, from
http://www.his.com/~z/guestbook/zhurnal16.html with our group for open
discussion, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/super_minciu_sodas_EN/

We've update our website, you'll find creative workspaces by Natalie,
John and Pete:
http://www.ms.lt/en/natalie/index.html
http://www.ms.lt/en/john/index.html
http://www.istori.com/cgi-bin/wiki

Given the wealth of thoughts that you generate, it wouldn't be hard for
you to become a member of our laboratory. If you like, write to me at
ms@..., we'd figure what you might contribute to the public domain.

Alternatively, we also award free membership for open source software
tools for augmenting thinking. You write that you've "written some free
software to let people work and play with multi-megabyte collections of
unstructured text." http://www.his.com/~z/index.html I'd be interested
to learn more. As a member of our lab, you can participate in all of
our working groups, and also receive a free license to TheBrain,
http://www.thebrain.com, and a free license for personal use of
Multicentric, http://www.multicentric.com

Yours,
Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@...
+1 (773) 651-3785
Chicago, Illinois


> From: ^z Comments: Orchard of Thoughts There's an
> interestingly-strange set of pages at http://www.ms.lt/ titled
> "Minciu Sodas", which in Lithuanian apparently means "Orchard of
> Thoughts". They're largely the work of Andrius Kulikauskas, an
> articulate fellow who has pulled together quite a bit of
> information about thinking tools of various sorts (e.g., see
> http://www.ms.lt/ms/projects/toolkinds/index.html and
> http://www.ms.lt/ms/projects/toolkinds/organize.html for excellent
> annotated links to important sites; see also http://www.memes.net/
> for further mysterious perhaps-wiki-like activity from another
> source).
>
> But it's hard to evaluate Minciu Sodas. Is it a personal playground
> for a few bright souls? ... an erstwile dot-com? ... an experiment
> in collaboration just short of critical mass? ... a disorganized
> shoebox of mystical ideas? ... or something completely different? I
> really don't know --- but it seems potentially important, or at
> least useful, or at least entertaining. (Speaking of which, what is
> this ^zhurnal?)
>
> (cf. perhaps some old musings here, originally written in April
> 1999: Thinking Tools Goals, Thinking Environments, Thinking Tools
> Defined, Thinking Tools Examples)
>
>
> - Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 17:23:24 (EDT)