[NetBehaviour] Stumbling-Upon Caravia.

[marc garrett]

Stumbling-Upon Caravia.

Extract from a review about a Stumbler called Caravia (Ana L. Valdés) 
http://caravia.stumbleupon.com/caravia.stumbleupon.com - which can be 
read in full on the http://post.thing.net blog.

I have been using StumbleUpon for a little while now and it has been an 
enjoyable education for me. I have found various fascinating, cultural 
ideas and interesting links which I would not have discovered if I had 
remained using the same, usual channels for research. It has allowed me 
to come across many subjects, issues and creative projects that may not 
fit into any typical canon, framework or institutional platform. It has 
also convinced me that many individuals out there in the world, do 
possess a positive thirst for knowledge and openness to new ideas, as 
well as alternative avenues of creativity.

I am networked to many people/users within StumbleUpon. One of them is a 
writer and journalist known as Caravia on StumbleUpon who lives in 
Stockholm, Sweden. Her real name is Ana L. Valdés. Her bio expounds "My 
friends define me as a cultural relativist. I don't feel myself as 
"belonging". Freelance catholic, freelance anarchist but definitely a 
humanist struggling for dialog and for meaningfull encounters." When 
looking at her Stumbles, it does not seem as though there is a struggle 
for meaningful encounters any more, when one observes her reviews by 
other stumblers. One stumbler says "First I must mention her breadth of 
knowledge, which comes from a combination of intelligence, curiosity, 
reading and more lives lived in one lifetime than most of us can 
imagine. To boil her unique experience of life down to just a sentence 
or two: she was born in Uruguay into a cultured and well educated family 
that was part Italian, part Spanish and other mixes."

Review by Marc Garrett