New New Orleans? Nov 10 2005

Dave Winer wrote yesterday about New Orleans, and how it has a chance to restart now. I think he’s right, it really is the kind of opportunity that only comes along once in a lifetime, but I think that the things he lists about New Orleans don’t MAKE it a great city, they MADE it a great city. Now that they have this chance to rebuild, this opportunity, they shouldn’t look to the past, and all the things that made it great in the past. They should look to the future, look for the 21st century equivalent of Louis Armstrong et al, and look for what will make New New Orleans as great a city in the future as New Orleans was in the past ;-)