I have just discovered a blog that deserves a closer look: Yellow Door Selectors...Manual --- Travel, Tourism, Development.To be more accurate, the blog author discovered the Rolling Rains Report and posted a most gracious review, "Rolling Rains Weblog." I am several days late in discovering it. Thank you.
The fact that a kindred spirit lies in the realm of travel, tourism, and development should not be at all surprising to Universal Design practitioners. Notice the well articulated link between responsible development and UD at the Adaptive Environments site:
Universal design is a framework for designing things, places, and communications so that they work for the widest possible spectrum of users without adaptation or specialized design. It is also called design-for-all and lifespan design. It is not a design style but an orientation to any design process that starts with a responsibility to the experience of the user. It has a parallel in the green design movement that also offers a framework for design problem solving based on the core value of environmental responsibility. Universal design and green design are comfortably two sides of the same coin but at different evolutionary stages.
Source:
http://www.adaptiveenvironments.org/index.php?option=Content&Itemid=3&PHPSESSID=3e15473583bc33fc5a3d5d19b451c095
Yellow Door Selector's observation on the fate of blogs like Rolling Rains in China brought to mind a thead posted at Brazzil on BRICs. It starts out:
[I] read a very interesting economics paper from Goldman released this month with the hypothesis that 4 countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) will surpass the economies of the G6 in less than 40 years.For the entire post see - BRICs: Goldman Economics Paper - Interesting Analysis
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