Pieter Jansegers

Bottom-up versus top-down solutionizing

Bottom-up versus top-down solutionizing

(first published in reaction on a blog article at http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2008/02/bankrupted.cfm )

This is the distinction that you can come up with.

The difference between to the styles can be pictured easily with this image:

If everyone cleans up the room after staying there a while, the room doesn’t get to dirty and the cleaning staff is quite happy to achieve a higher standard of cleaniness.

If no-one cleans up the room after passing bye, the room gets so dirty that even the cleaning staff is desperate about the chances of cleaning the room upto an acceptable level.

The same goes for security (everyone looks out /vs/ no-one), civilty (everyone is polite /vs/ no-one) and tolerance (everyone is tolerant /vs/ no-one).

No authority can dictate society, society is born with the effort put into it by individuals.

Society is an emerging level of individual behavior. Any chance of that behavior is a change of the society as a whole.

Speech of European President Herman Van Rompuy

First speech of the first European President Herman Van Rompuy - http://bit.ly/4tq6vK partly in French, partly in English plus some Flamish

The Title Webosoof

I’ve created the title Webosoof, because it’s my niche market so to speak.

I’m constantly thinking about the internet as the new alphabet, the new printing press, the new radio, the new television, the new information medium englobing every the other media.

The world is one global village and social media and especially microblogs are there to proove this point: people from all over the globe connect in ways never seen before.

What was the change of me having contact with people from China, India, Russia, Brazil, the USA and Australia just twenty years ago ? Almost none existing before the internet except when I would have been some professor or some CIO of a really big company.

Nowadays, it’s possible for almost each and everyone in the developped world and more and more people in the developping world.

Imagine everyone having high level contacts as had Erasmus, Thomas Morus or Leonardo Da Vinci - BTW, I find this strange: Wikipedia’s article spelling is Leonardo da Vinci , with a small d.

Wikipedia makes the knowledge available worldwide and in almost every modern written language, even about subjects no other encyclopedia ever had thought to write an article.

Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Orkut, Hi5, make it possible to connect with friends and acquaintances from all over the globe.

Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo make videos available from every single little village or big city to almost every other single place here on Earth.

Ning.com , Yonkly.com and Qonversation.com make it possible to come together around themes.

Twitter is the XXI century’s Who’s Who and Google Wave is ready to become this century’s postal service - like email was for the last part of the former and the early beginning of this century.

We’re living in exciting times, my friends, we’re living in the digital age…

» Electricity From Salty Water - http://cli.gs/nyt8UN

BuzzSkyline writes
“It’s possible to produce energy by simply mixing fresh and salty water. Although chemists and physicists have long known about the untapped energy available where fresh water rivers pour into salty oceans — it’s equivalent to ‘each river in the world ending at its mouth in a waterfall 225 meters [739 feet] high’ — the technology for exploiting the effect has been lacking. An Italian physicist seems to have solved the problem with the experimental demonstration of a ‘salination cell’ that creates power given nothing more than input sources of salty and fresh water. The researcher believes that this renewable, environmentally friendly energy source could be deployed in coastal areas and could provide another addition to the green-tech roster. A paper describing the technology is due to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.”
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/24/1640220

“ Scientists describe these skills as our “fluid intelligence”—the ability to find meaning in confusion and to solve new problems, independent of acquired knowledge.

— Jamais Cascio, “Get Smarter”, in: the Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence

» Twitter Spam Invades Trending Topics

“ Living as we do in such an unstable culture where anybody over thirty has to be astonished by how deeply and permanently the world has changed, it is hard for us to divorce fixity from questions of intelligence and imagination. But experiments and history suggest that a powerful stabilizing force exists and slowed the whole process of speech origins.

— A Cultural Law of Gravity - http://cli.gs/mXXJab

“ Some tweet to share information, though that sharing is often really a boast about how au courant the twitterer is. Many tweet as self-promotion.

—

Warning: This column contains more than 140 characters -
http://cli.gs/QLXuAJ

http://www.vancouversun.com/Entertainment/Warning+This+column+contains+more+than+characters/1472358/story.html

A lion never forgets

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape - http://tinyurl.com/3jmzpq

(I found out about it, thanks to Perry Belcher on his blog ‘Strictly Personal’ http://perrybelcher.net/

Internet Access Without Electricity, Connectivity or Phone Services. No Matter Where You Are.

Internet Access Without Electricity, Connectivity or Phone Services. No Matter Where You Are. - http://cli.gs/7mzVhz

» 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge Work

http://cli.gs/LpTPRm

» Twitter is the Who's Who of the XXIth Century

http://www.floort.com/show/5664/4

microblogs

USA / UK

http://twitter.com http://identi.ca http://plurk.com http://twoorl.com http://yonkly.net http://beemood.com

CHINA

http://fanfou.com http://zuosa.com http://komoo.cn

SPAIN / LATIN AMERICA

http://khaces.com http://enquando.com http://mexicodiario.com

PORTUGAL / LATIN AMERICA

http://gozub.com http://fazkut.com http://telog.com.br

INDIA

http://kwippy.com http://snockles.com

FRANCE / CANADA / AFRICA

http://noumba.net http://tapioka.ca http://koodj.com

GERMANY

http://niimo.com http://dukudu.de

NETHERLANDS

http://numpa.nl http://babl.nl

POLAND

CZECH REPUBLIC

RUSSIA

ROMANIA

ARABIA

TURKEY

I call posting on all these globocasting …

Pieter Jansegers
http://microblogs.ning.com

The importance of story telling

In his TED presentation ” Welcome to Nollywood ” [
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/franco_sacchi_on_nollywood.html ],
Franco Sacchi tells us:

“I hope that it will inspire other African nations to (…) create an narrative for the population something to identify, something positive, something that really is psychological releaf and is part of the culture. (…)

And there is one thing, one small challenge that I have for you and it should make us relfect on the importance of story telling:

Try to image a world where the only goal is food and a shelter but no stories, no stories around the campfire, no legends no fairy tales, nothing, no novels.

Difficult, hey ?
It’s meaningless.

So this is what I really think, I think that the key to a healthy society is a triving community of story tellers. And I think that the Nigerian filmmakers really have proven it.”

Franco Sacchi: Welcome to Nollywood -
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/franco_sacchi_on_nollywood.html
about Nigeria’s booming film industry - where local crews telling local stories can shoot a feature film in a week