June 2011
1 post
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...
November 2009
2 posts
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...
August 2009
1 post
Electricity From Salty Water -... →
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...
July 2009
1 post
“Scientists describe these skills as our “fluid intelligence”—the ability to find...”
– Jamais Cascio, “Get Smarter”, in: the Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence
May 2009
2 posts
Twitter Spam Invades Trending Topics →
“Living as we do in such an unstable culture where anybody over thirty has to be...”
– A Cultural Law of Gravity - http://cli.gs/mXXJab
April 2009
1 post
“Some tweet to share information, though that sharing is often really a boast...”
– 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
December 2008
1 post
November 2008
9 posts
2 tags
Internet Access Without Electricity, Connectivity...
Internet Access Without Electricity, Connectivity or Phone Services. No Matter Where You Are. - http://cli.gs/7mzVhz
100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and... →
http://cli.gs/LpTPRm
Twitter is the Who's Who of the XXIth Century →
http://www.floort.com/show/5664/4
6 tags
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...
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. (…)
...
The relativity of value
“Asset prices rise not because of “buying” per se, because indeed for every buyer, there is a seller. They rise because those transacting agree that their prices should be higher. All that everyone else - including those who own some of that asset and those who do not - need do is nothing. Conversely, for prices of assets to fall, it takes only one seller and one buyer who agree...
How Twitter has changed the world.
How Twitter is a Communications Game Changer - http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/11/10/how-twitter-is-a-communications-game-changer/
A complete solution for mobility:
Electric car model and battery change distribution system - http://blip.tv/play/gfIU2P5LhZlM
July 2008
2 posts
prototype philosophy
prototype philosophy | signaled by mark schraad - IxDA - http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=31696
Great article on the business week site today about design…
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate /content /jul2008 /id20080728 _623527.htm?chan=innovation _innovation +%2B +design _top +stories
Near the end of the article Claudia Kotchka talks about prototype workshops…
...
Knol on microblogs →
Google Knol has launched and I’ve made a contribution about microblogs as my first Knol I worked on.
June 2008
4 posts
globocasting : informing the world by microblogs →
“Schrödinger and Heisenberg independently uncovered dual descriptions of...”
– The Reality Tests [an article on the implications of quantum fysics] http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/06/the_reality_tests_1.php?page=3
“How the Web is Changing Work”
– http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/21/how-the-web-is-changing-work/
“10 reasons why my bicycle is better than trains.
1 - My bicycle don’t...”
– Posted by: Jean-Sébastien Mansart | 24 April 2008 at 11:29 AM in reponse to 10 reasons why i think twitter is better than email - http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2008/04/10-reasons-why.html
May 2008
3 posts
The best microblogs according to ten criteria
The listing of the better microblogs at http://microblogs.ning.com starts with this statement: “This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.” Nice, we all want this. But the question remains: what makes up a really good microblog ? For me it are these ten requirements: 1* login with username...
Microblogs are the world's first instant global...
Microblogs are here to stay and the most important thing about microblogs is their immediate feedback information loop capabilities. Some microblogs worldwide This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time. general http://twitter.com http://jaiku.com http://pownce.com http://yelago.com http://beemood.com...
“There are no bad products but the question is whether you sell them...”
– Found in the blogarticle Watchdog pounces on high-risk sales - http://www.china.org.cn/business/2008-05/05/content_15063094.htm
April 2008
6 posts
Why twitter is such a great success...
Writing down thoughts and quotations has been practiced almost since the beginning of writing. Proverbs of Ben Sira are finally very nice tweets. I believe it’s Cicero who said: ‘Whatever is well said, no matter by whoever it’s said, I use it’. Erasmus took notes because he argued that you don’t have time to read a book over again without loosing time to read new...
“Twitter has a powerful ability to move people to action, to deliver help where...”
– Chris Brogan, College Student Twitters Arrest in Egypt, http://www.chrisbrogan.com/college-student-twitters-arrest-in-egypt/
“‘As we each carve out our individual niche on the Web, the logic of search...”
– How Social Networks May Kill Search as We Know It - referring article on Slashdot.com http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/16/1833256
“The reason superusers go rogue is usually frustration, says Marquis....”
– Hank Marquis, director of ITSM, quoted in the Infoworld article Guerrilla IT: How to stop worrying and learn to love your superusersby Dan Tynan http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/14/16FE-guerrilla-it_1.html
“Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit...”
– USA: Sovjet like food stamps - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/usa-2008-the-great-depression-803095.html
March 2008
13 posts
“If the news is that important, it will find me.”
– http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/28/1532237
“According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just...”
– http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/28/1532237
The South sea bubble parallel
The 6 elements for this parallel *the creation of a global market *a new medium *a large collapse and failure *trust became a rare commodity *vast quantities of funny paper were changing hands even though those involved in the deals had no idea of their true worth. Nor did they care. *years of wars and pan-Atlantic battles http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/whatis.html and...
“Some analysts say the urgency of the Fed moves strengthened market worries on a...”
– http://www.china.org.cn/international/opinion/2008-03/18/content_12946500.htm
“As the economics team at HSBC recently pointed out, there has been a...”
– http://www.china.org.cn/international/opinion/2008-03/18/content_12954519.htm
“According to the Economic Times of India, the US had until now held the mantle...”
– http://www.bigmouthmedia.com/live/articles/china-surpasses-us-in-internet-user-numbers.asp/4516/
“In my opinion, developers have the biggest advantage,” says Wegrzyn, who...”
– Meet the whiz kids: 10 overachievers under 21 by Dan Tynan of PC World on 03.10.2008 - http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/10/meet-whiz-kids-10-overachievers-under-21
“[…]if you are building a new web service today, forget about being a...”
– http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/12/everything-everywhere
“While providing online advertisers with a highly captive consumer audience,...”
– http://www.sociableblog.com/2008/03/12/veridoo-rewards-driven-new-form-of-online-interaction/#more-1468
“the extreme lack of understanding of
IT at high executive levels”
– http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/11/124229
“If your consumers aren’t reading blogs or using RSS, and won’t be...”
– European social networking report: http://www.netimperative.com/news/2008/march/10/european-social-networking-report (with also an interesting typification of social network users)
“The report goes on to say that we are entering a period for which there is no...”
– http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=918803
Bottom-up versus top-down solutionnizing
I don’t know if Obama looks at it this way, but I thought about his message of hope and cooperation while reading this passage: “The problem is simple. The underlying assumption is that we can help solve the world’s big problems by putting a bunch of interesting people in a room and talking about stuff. We can’t. In fact, exactly the opposite is true. The way we can solve...
February 2008
9 posts
The Paradigm Shift
Studying the New Paradigm based on quantum mechanics, fluxes, fuzzy logic, organic growth , connectivism, glocality, critical mass, subduction and synchronicity. Please read the basic handbook for this New Paradigm: The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann.
“In Zeno’s dichotomy paradox, you run toward a wall. As you run, you halve...”
– Chris Anderson (canderson@wired.com) is the editor in chief of Wired, in the article ”Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business” - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all
“Give people 30 minutes to set up a website about a subject.”
– The Wizz Kid TV format - http://jansegers.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/28/1332442-the-wizz-kid-tv-format
“We once took years to understand and assimilate new technologies into our lives....”
– Larry Borsato, “Sickr, Tickr, and casualties of change” in The Industry Standard on 02.13.2008, http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/13/sickr-tickr-and-casualties-change