I am looking forward to the day but am no stranger to the delights of 6X as it was the bitter served in The Best Pub In The World.

Sadly though that pub caught fire last year and won't be re-opening until this summer so I am suffering withdrawal symptoms!

I'd like to hear your thoughts on focusing the use of social software on the informal organisation, rather than trying to support formal processes - (in other words - talk about what I blogged the other day :D )

no... I'm quite sure that whatever emerges from the two of you while walking will be well worth listening too without suggestions from me.

I'd also make a plea for release only of the pre-6X segment - walking in wiltshire, yes - muttering into beer - been there, done that, got the (unpleasantly stained) t-shirt.

Ok Lloyd - I assume you mean this">http://www.perfectpath.co.uk/archives/2006/12/its_social_stup.html">this post. As to the before and after 6X, well it might be better or worse we shall have to see. Euan has already refused the Old Timer as he is driving so I think you may be safe.

Sound idyllic - the only comparable walks I find in England are along Hadrians Wall - the beer is very good up there too.

A topic for you - Is there any real hope for extablished organizations that are embued with the conventional top down culture? My own feeble efforts have lead to some personal enlightenment - usually leading to the firing or dismissal of my client but to no meangingful change in the organization.

Is there a process that might work? Euan can tell you about a cunning plan that we have hatched.

Apart form the subject of how good is it to be alive, drinking 6X and wandering around such a wonderful place - how about, "What was it that made the communities of then (ie, those that made the Avebury) and what is it about them that we still and/or have lost"

walking around sounds quite peripatetic. Why don't you talk about ancient "wisdom", and if and how we re-invent it, or ignore it because it's old, or believe it just because it's old. And about the fun of being creative and doing something new, just because.

Well i'm very interested in the creation of art, especially new forms of art, and often think about how it relates to human CASs etc.

Technically, we could consider this your first podcast here:
http://rss.openomy.com/download/get/705.

This is the one we recorded last December when you did the lunch event for us after the Systems Thinking and Complexity conference.

I've never really publicised it, but have been playing with using openomy to store files for podcasting (http://rss.openomy.com/rss/nzkm/nzkmpodcast).

And as for topics how about sense making related to war and peace? That is, war in terms of counter-terrorism, weak signal detection, clashing of different cultures' models of the world, fundamentalism etc, and peace in terms of sacredness (the 'places of peace and power' heading for your Stone Ring of Avebury link), conflict resolution, universalism etc.

How about something on how to explain complexity simply, how storytelling, family groups and tribes might have emerged naturally in ancient Wiltshire and of course why just the thought of a nice pint of beer can stimulate so many happy memories. Oh, and lets see if you can do it without referring to Wales or rugby.

Dave, Given the context you will be in, how about something around how we 're-imagine' historical cultural situations in light of todays values e.g. how the victorians re-imagined the druids and re-created their values etc - a really good analysis of this is in back of the recent book about Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge. It offers a different perspective about welsh hertiage than Dave usually offers........ More seriously we do impose our individual and social norms on historical events - the fewer artefacts there are the more our imagniation can run riot...

Oh, nice! I wonder what the two of you would be up to ! heh Anyway, since you were asking I would love to hear your insights about how Enterprise 2.0 is going to potentially shape up and integrate with the more traditional KM systems available in most businesses. Will they live together and walk hand in hand? Or will one kill the other? (If so, which one would survive?). Will Enterprise 2.0 be able to augment what we already have in an effective manner without damaging what we already have available? And if so at what costs? Yes, I know, plenty of questions, but you get the idea. I hope ;-)

Look forward to the podcast ! (Perhaps you should start one of those "Snowden & Semple Shows" ("Triple S") every other week or something)

Depending on whether you two are going to have just A conversation or Two:

Dave, I've heard you express a certain distrust of management techniques that derive from a therapy background (and so many do). I agree, given that the general medical paradigm is one of 'cure' rather than 'prevention'. So the conversation topic is "How does a naturalistic approach, combining descriptive self-awareness and the application of social computing technologies and processes allow organisations to become more sane?"

If you happen to have another conversation, then could you talk about how well government, the political system and the legal system operate both as complex systems in themselves and also in response to complex issues. You may be able to take your November 3 post "The Context and Uncertainties of Government" (http://www.cognitive-edge.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/128) further, if you like.

My interest in this subject was picqued recently when the Queensland state government appointed a mere solicitor, instead of a barrister, as a judge to the Supreme Court. One of the arguments against her appointment (put by the barristers, of course) was that only a barrister with significant court experience would be able to cope with the intricacies of the rules of evidence. Personally, I thought the whole system might be much better served by having some non-lawyers also appointed as judges, assisted by lawyers where matters of evidence needed to be clarified. I'm not sure there was much thought about conditions of complexity when the rules of evidence were formulated. And these are, after all, social systems even though they may not be often thought of in such a manner.