David, what a wonderful collection of discoveries! Thank you for starting this discussion...

Well, too numerous to really catalogue, here are 10 "gems" that stand out as discoveries for me in no particular order:

1:	Tom Munnecke's "snowflakes, cats and toasters" discussion, which led me to Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
2:	Valdis Krebs and the world of social network mapping, which is a fascinating way to collect, visualize and study the connections between nodes in a network of people.
3:	Darlene Charneco and her network-informed form of beautifully obsessive art that embeds archetypes, narrative and meditations on relationships.
4:	Cameron Sinclair and his passion for transforming architecture into a responsive vocation that address specific needs in the developing world.
5:	The powerful combination of Dropcash, Paypal, and Moneygram and today's capacity to raise money and send it across the world (as I am doing with Dennis Kimambo now!).
6:	The wonderful artists Kasia Oszga and Evonne Heyning and their inspired trips to India and Thailand to run Peace Tiles workshops around global HIV/AIDS.
7:	Mark Grimes and his knack for tying together big ideas about change into social enterprise mumbojumbo and get others excited about it, somehow advancing the whole entire cause aka ned.com
8:	Invisible Children and their inspiring efforts to raise awareness about the conflict in Northern Uganda and raise funds to support needs of child soldiers there.
9:	Christina Jordan and Life in Africa Foundation colleagues who produced lovely lanyards for three meetings that I have organized over the last two years.
10:	My own capacity to contribute in some way to the work and ideas of each person and project above, through meetings as well as online discussion and collaboration here on O.net - and in turn their capacity to contribute efforts like Peace Tiles which have grown only because of the financial support and peoplepower of networks like O.net.

So long, and thanks deeply for all the fish!