The 2009 Kellogg Food and Society Gathering for Good Food began 45 minutes ago here in San Jose.   Two and a half days of   conversation is now underway.   The gathering will feature a nearly full day in Open Space tomorrow and a participatory half day of closing.   Today is the kick off – speakers and presenters and so on.

Last year we tried to awaken to social networking spirit when we were in Phoenix, but the hotel wanted $10,000 a day for universal wireless (Sheraton Wild Horse Canyon, in case you wanted to know) and so it wasn’t possible.   This year, the Fairmont San Jose has realized that providing wireless means people can talk live about how great your hotel is.   So we   have wireless and lots of folks are twittering and blogging and flickring and facebooking.   So if you would like to follow along with the collective live blog stream, you can do so through the conference website or by following the twitter feed directly which is acting as the defacto collective live blogging platform.

On on the road again and posting will probably be light for the next little while, but here are the links that have caught my eye and fed my curiosity this week:

• Ton Zylstra on closed systems and the financial collapse

Morsels that are left on my plate:

• Mary Statcy on solving complex problems
• Omegle.   Hmm.
• Steph Larsen on the systemic solutions to food reform.
• A collection of traditional teachings from five First Nations, including audio
• Johnnie Moore on a great workshop on noticing
• Tom Atlee and Peggy Holman start a list of videos about Open Space

Hungry?  Eat…

• Niels Teunis invites us to kill the mission statement and find three words instead.
• Dervala Hanley tweets the death of the MBA.
• Ria Baeck republishes Fancis Moore Lappe on wyas systems can redesign food systems
• Johnnie Moore blogging Dave Snowden blogging some interesting peer learning in the hotel industry.
• Aftab Erfan blogs about a Deep Democracy event in South Africa.
• Peggy Holman is blogging her new book on Patterns of Change and looking for comments
• Henry Mintzberg on the failure of management training

A light week of blogging as I have been in a deep Art of Hosting, but here are some things that grabbed my eye this week from the newsfeeds in my life:

• Nancy White on why Sharepoint is NOT the solution you’ve been looking for (and I agree).
• Ria Baeck on Collective sourcing for living wholeness.