Actually, I don't disagree with cheeky_geeky. However, for the Fast Company magazine crowd, there has to be someone to bring them into the present tense.
Also, there's a matter of scale that Robert deals with that most humans do not deal with. I do also defer to Robert's history -- which many will debate, but which I've indirectly observed from early on -- of being instrumental to the entire CONCEPT of "Social Media." I'm not ashamed to give credit where credit is due: @scobleizer has more than earned his rightful place in history.
Additionally, this approach is extremely well done and demonstrates a highly literate understanding of many of the issues we're all tangling with today, such as effective information conveyance and throughput of understanding within a context of genetic attention deficits typical of the entire species (even if you're brilliant, your abilities are asymptotic, right?), combined with the rapidly approaching inevitability of BCI's that will challenge our very understanding of what it is to be human. All this said, I think your comment further illustrates what I've been on about WRT the growing Adoption and Adaptation Divide between humans. Yes, those furthest along the AAD spectrum prolly are disproportionately ADD! But I digress. We are increasingly grouped by our willingness and ability to adopt and adapt to all kinds of new technologies and even Ways of Thinking. The adoption categories from Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm have become almost discrete culture unto themselves. This trend isn't going to diminish any time soon.
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Yeah, it's Friendfeed overload day
Sorry 'bout that, but it was quite little bruhaha, one must admit.
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WTF!? OMG! Twitter is down! Twitter is DOWN!
OMG! Twitter is down! Twitter is DOWN! Whatever will we do now? How will I know what to pay attention to next??? I'm soooo confused and disoriented! ROTFLMAO!
My #lifestream is just fine. How's yours doin'? See what we're talkin' about, here, maybe? Hmmm?
Click here: IsTwitterDown
and here: WhenTwitterIsDown
and here: DownOrNot
Definitely brings issues we’ve been talking about to light. A Google Wave like service run as a P2P network would be infinitely more robust and configurable for keeping the Global Cognition Grid online.
Nice time to revisit the classics; surely you didn't think I meant Voltaire by that suggestion, did you?
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Goodnight, Interwebz
GCG Status: OFFLINE.
Will be enjoining the Global Cognition Grid again tomorrow, approximately NOON GMT, as usual. No need for this NOISE to spam the Twitter stream, right? Still, kind of nice to let people know when we're off-grid no?
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Links Stripped out of Google Reader Shared Items
Is it annoying that the links are all stripped away? Why yes, yes it is, actually; as is the current default CSS shlockiness of Friendfeed and other items. But we'll fix that over next week or so. Figure out the Process First; then Polish.
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Tuning Attention
Remember this: Cognition-Hacking The Grid: Full Twitter Reboot Inevitable from last week?
Today, TechieBuzz hooked me up with Muuter's ability to temporarily mute / squelch noisy bursts from people you'd like to keep an eye, but just can't deal with for now. Now can be defined by you to mean 1 hour to 1 week, in this new app's pre-defined increments.
So you can tune me out -- I mean those random noisy people -- temporarily and when things go back to normal, you're still able to monitor the signal. Another benefit of this approach is we might also apply a "3 strikes rule" or similar. If I'm squelching you too often, then that might tell me that actually, no, it's not worth it to stay tuned in. But if I only need to tune you out during a busy conference or something, then this could be just the ticket.
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FaceFeeds: So Close, Yet So Far
The good news: I now have the following Facebook Status Feeds running in #Feedly (via Google Reader, of course)! :
* My Facebook Status Updates
* My Facebook Notes
* My Facebook Notifications
* My Friends' Facebook Status Updates
* My Friends' Facebook Notes
* My Friends' Facebook Posts
The next hurdle: Still can't import here to sweetcron by either of the following methods:
1. Using the direct Facebook feed URL's in the format of http://www.facebook.com/feeds/[status | notes | notifications].php?id=111111111&viewer=111111111&key=aaaaaaaaaaformat=rss20 renders ERROR: "A feed could not be found at http://www.facebook.com/feeds/[status | notes | notifications].php?id=111111111&viewer=111111111&key=aaaaaaaaaaformat=rss20"
2. Using Google Reader folder subscription URL in the format http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F1111111111111%2Flabel%2Ffacefeeds renders ERROR: "XML error: Not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 1"
HONESTLY! I really won't feel stupid or diminished in any way if you want to share your own secret for achieving this, I promise; so don't hold back just to spare my fragile feelings, okay? Okay. -
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FULL STOP
Don't get me wrong. I love twitter. At it's very best, it has provided us with a science-fiction-like environment for Augmented-Extended Collective Cognition during lectures, conferences, and similarly structured events. Utterly un-effing-believable.
The challenge that I'm presently wrestling with is the task of striking some kind of balance between SYMMETRIC conversational engagement and ASYMMETRIC stream-of-discovery/innovation publication, as I set about my favorite activity: exploring and testing new web tools, applications, and services.
The answer is just not that straightforward. It's even more complicated if I throw in the highly desirable objective of generating some (however modest) reliable stream of revenue that is incidental to "doing what i love," as everyone's favorite feel-goodonomy books promise.
Obviously, at this point in the stream of consciousness, I scold myself for ever entertaining such magical thinking for even one second. Yet, I am only human, and while a realist, I admit to being highly prone to envisioning the world As It Should Be.
"All of us, driven by the simple belief that the world-as-it-is just won't do; that we have an obligation to fight for the world-as-it-should-be" (Michelle Obama).
Part of "as it should be" includes not annoying the hell out of individuals who command SPECIFIC HIGH VALUE COGNITION ENGINES for particular areas of inquiry, research, and development that interest me, while staying engaged with literally anyone and everyone because every normal functioning human being is a priceless cognition engine of value.
P.S. Sound challenging? It is. And yes, as a matter of fact; since taking an early semi-retirement, I have indeed assigned myself more challenging and energizing work tasks than any employer has ever offered. "Finding meaningful full time WORK" has never been a problem for me in my entire life; it's finding sustainable liquidity flows that all too often presents the independent researcher with a binary life path of tenure or destitution. Until we work out the the specifics and implement Basic Income, it's likely to stay that way. So, welcome to the club.- Tags:
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Google Reader Items a train wreck
I really need to find out where the CR/LF's are getting stripped out before publishing these items; they're a complete visual train wreck.
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Old News: Caloric Restriction Improves Memory in the Elderly
Caloric Restriction Improves Memory in the Elderly
The good news for caloric restriction just keeps coming. While optimal anti-aging benefits may require starting caloric restriction during early adulthood, good things will apparently come to those who cut their calorie intake after middle age too. -
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Klout update
Not bad, below; however, I'd definitely like to INTERACT more. If I were sufficiently fortunate to find a compensated gig that would enable me to do just that, life would enter pure bonus rounds. ;-)
----------------------Hello silverton,
Our analysis shows that your Twitter influence has remained consistent since the last time you were processed. While that is not a bad thing we would love to help you become more influential. The first thing we recommend is tweeting who your influencers are. This often sparks conversation which is the key to your Klout influence.
Tweet my influencers.
Um, no thanks. Way too spammy.
These are the things that you have improved:- Network Strength - Wow, you've got influential people @ messaging and retweeting you. Great content is rewarded.
- Velocity - Your tweets have been interesting enough for others to spread them to their networks.
- Reach - You are gaining a strong following and your message is being heard.
- Activity - You are effectively distributing your messages without overwhelming your audience or being spammy. These are the things that you should improve:
- Engagement - Try having more conversations and less one sided broadcasting.
- Demand - Your network has either decreased in size or you've had to deliberately follow a lot more people to reach your current size (or Twitter recently purged a ton of spam-bots; which is the case in this instance). Follow anyone you think is interesting but be sure to engage with your network and don't just follow to be followed in return. (I already stick to this policy, so this part of the analysis isn't really dead-on, due to aforementioned mass spam/bot eradication).
Thanks! The Klout Team
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What Goes Up ...
Soaring Stocks: The Return of the Ten Bagger on http://SeekingAlpha.com/a/3adt
(aka, your Oct/Nov Long Spec Put list)
P.S. Note to self: Remember to follow your own new experimental guidelines ... keep the Twitter stream more FOCUSED and let the overflow go here! People who give a damn can find out more if they want to without overwhelming the public timeline.
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Culture of Denial and other Salient Subtexts of #AOSS09
Clearly, the past few days of the Always On Stanford Summit 2009 have proven once again that neither technical capabilities, opportunities, entrepreneurial drive, nor innovation represent bottlenecks to progress in today's economy.
The bottlenecks are still anachronistic resource allocation models and empty industrial era narratives that continue to exert massively attenuating influences upon what would otherwise be increasingly accelerating competitive advantage for the U.S.
As we've repeated time and again, massively unsustainable resource skews have resulted in Far Too Few Gatekeepers to even come close to adequate capitalization of the Explosive Acceleration of Innovation, at hand.
Today's Explosive Acceleration of Innovation is not some futuristic forecast, it's today's everyday reality. The millions of real innovators on the ground know this beyond any shadow of doubt. As a society, we're losing more and more Accelerating Value Growth every day, due to the ineptitude and irrelevance of the Capitalism 1.0 world view and the crippling centralization of wealth it has created.
The most generous analogy I can come up with is to compare the predicament of Insanely Centralized Capital to that of Insanely Overworked Physicians, today. If one is a physician or medical researcher today, there are literally thousands of pertinent research findings published EVERY WEEK. It's just simply no longer humanly possible to keep up with even ONE FIELD OF PRACTICE, let alone to be a perpetually fully informed general practitioner.
Similarly, if one is a VC or large institutional investor -- or even part of a network of a few hundred peers -- there is simply no efficient or effective way to keep up with the thousands, nay millions of new ventures that are sketched out on kitchen tables across America in any given week. Obviously, there is no way to know which among those might become the biggest successes in the long term; and one of the most malignant features of the current "traditional" 19th Century Industrial Era paradigm is the seemingly inherent inability to recognize one simple fact:
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE KITCHEN TABLE BUSINESS PLANS CREATES JOBS in a world that is rapidly moving toward 20% and greater Structural Unemployment. Our entire societal OBJECTIVES have changed, but capital resource and liquidity circulation algorithms haven't appreciatively changed in a century or more.
By institutionally obsessing upon the Next Big Thing that will enable Centralized Capital to continue it's insane, pathologically hoarding "traditional model" behavior, we are literally choking our own economy to death, even while the number of able and willing entrepreneurs is greater than at any time in history. There is only one single word that can sum up such a inherently untenable situation:
Inexcusable.
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Cognition-Hacking The Grid: Full Twitter Reboot Inevitable
An open-ended, free-form collective cognition experiment, simultaneously published here and here.
Today we postulate that, due to dabbling too much with "everyday normal crap," we've lost several key symmetric links with minds that significantly enhanced our interactions within the #cognosphere. Therefore, some version of an individual Full Twitter Reboot has become inevitable. Yes, yes, rumors abound about service-wide quantum changes ahead; we're not talking about that here. Rather, I'm going to take some time to reflect upon the process and perhaps consult with some of the more aggressive experimenters in this domain before executing the reboot. If you consider yourself such an expert, I'd very much appreciate learning your thoughts and experiences in rebooting connections to the #cognosphere by deleting twitter id's (TID's), deleting all Followers/Following, using multiple TID's, or other techniques of which I'm not yet aware.
Disclaimer and Courtesy Notice to the reader: if you believe that Twitter is merely a "micro-blogging service" -- and possibly a fairly pointless and stupid one, at that -- then by all means please let me save you some time. Don't even bother reading any further. Go watch your local news for alerts about lost puppies or something, because this confusing thought Blip will only waste your, um valuable time or worse, possibly disrupt a comfortable existential equilibrium, or crack open the mind to something you formerly considered extremely unlikely, impossible, or just plain crazy. We wouldn't want any of that on our conscience, so please leave now.
In constructing one's interconnection with the Global Cognition Grid (GCG, or just The Grid), and when utilizing that interconnection to explore specific topics, one simply can't think clearly -- or not completely, at least -- without certain linkages intact. I understand that we are each still standard humans, for now; however, we can surely scan the horizon for what collective cognition might be like, moving forward. Even if we can't specifically predict the future, we can always forecast scenarios.
My early explorations in Google Wave developer sandbox further validate impressions about the nature and emergence of this global cognition grid. Right now, there's still a ton of #egosphere pollution and due to lack of Addressable Human Attention in standard human beings, it's going to be persistently important in the short to mid term to NOT FUCK AROUND TOO MUCH or risk losing access to MINDS that dramatically enhance one's own extended cognition.
The Global Cognition Grid is a 100% and 360-degree opt-in construct. By looking over the statistics at FriendorFollow, I've been able to see where I've done well and where I've not done so well in building the most effective #cognosphere possible for exploring the fields of inquiry that most interest me.
As a footnote, I may need to also keep in mind that as specific veins of research are explored, these configurations may change, over time; including different sets and subsets of minds, given the work at hand. The double edge of that sword is the fact that a standard human configuration tends to NOT re-establish a link, once dropped. What signals can be changed to suggest that a dropped connection would now become of mutual benefit once again? Do neurons do this? If so, how? Are there practical analogies or lessons that could be applied from nature to help understand how minds-as-individual-neurons in a GCG might accomplish a similar function (restorative, alternate, optimized interconnection)?
Asking the same questions within the context of an #egosphere (I've offended someone) render entirely different responses than asking within the context of a #cognosphere (I've bored the hell out of someone). In the former, I need to make amends, offer an apology and hope for acceptance of said apology. In the latter, I probably need to accomplish something, synthesize or contribute something new, create an artifact of some kind that regains the lost connection's interest. In the former, I'm repairing a relationship, the latter I'm renewing curiosity.
For now, through such tenuous low-bandwidth #cognosphere connections such as afforded by the likes of Twitter, these two spheres of standard configuration human interaction are still hopelessly entangled. The concept of a binary ON/OFF ... FOLLOW/NOTFOLLOW has been essential to enabling our collective discovery of the next possibilities for The Grid; yet, wholly inadequate to its continued evolution. Friendfeed's ability to keep an open channel to Friends of Friends (including dropped and never-established connections) is surely a step in the right direction, and Google Wave definitely places our presently trailing foot once again in front of the other, helping us to take one step closer toward our pragmatic, imperfect, yet increasingly impressive and capable Global Cognition Grid.
Why should any of this matter? For starters, a fundamental first requirement of The Grid is to help us fix this transitional, increasingly malignant inefficiency:
The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed. - Gibson
Let's figure out how to correct that.
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Life is but a stream ... or a particle ... or a wave ...
Early explorations of Google Wave Sandbox are pretty exciting. There's a lot of activity already and for my niche interests, I see great promise along two lines:
- Lifestreams could give way to, or become hybrid with LifeWaves. What I will be dabbling with is the ability to create the next generation lifestream, along with the extended capability of multiplexing and filtering your life[stream|wave] with others. This could be one route to accomplishing the goal of individual digital stream autonomy and ownership, while fostering robust, extended, collaboration. Potential conflict of interest: AdSense vs. other User As Content / Conversation As Content monetization methods & platforms.
- Proposal and Project Management. All too often completed under intense time and collaboration compression, Wave technology could be used to create extraordinarily efficient proposal machines that bring together the diverse, disparate data and expertise required to create winning proposals. Task or purpose-specific Wave Robots could stand at the ready of various databases to suggest pertinent content, reference projects, and resources for specific projects. Along side realtime human peer-review, and with everyone on the same wavelength throughout the entire proposal development or project management process, this could result in higher quality proposals and more efficiently executed projects. Zero "didn't get your email/attachment" excuses. Zero "that's not what we agreed to" excuses. Zero "i guess i don't have access to that mapped drive" excuses. You're either paying attention and contributing to the wave, or you're not, and everyone can see who's making proportionate contributions at all times. No more poser pseudo-managers siphoning off your work as their own.
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Google Wave Sandbox
Oh, oh. They let me into the sandbox. Just please don't kick sand in my eyes and I won't kick in yours, okay? ;-)
Seriously though, first hour's glimpse looks like it could take what we're experimenting with here to an entirely new, inclusive, fractal-interactive level. Stay tuned for something you can interact with, soon.
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Soundproofing the Echo Chamber
I'm sure that the Big Fat Middle of the Bell Curve will pretty much always opt for the quick and easy "let FriendBook, FaceSpace, MyFeed do it for me" approach; unless, of course, people begin to wake up and smell the User As Content / Conversation As Content and stop giving away YOUR VALUE for free as YOUR CONTENT continues to be co-opted for every Walled Garden's ad revenue benefit.
For any potential Deviant Outliers who may be interested in exploring Alternative and Abnormal Interwebnetting Behaviors, migrating to an #OpenStream lifestream platforms means doing some additional work to soundproof the individual echo chamber.
Basically, each of the streams I had previously shared in Friendfeed will start echoing here in Sweetcron; so as I continue to make incremental commitments to #OpenStream ... one by one ... I'll be taking feeds of Friendfeed.
New point of failure: my hosting provider and my own backup regimine.
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Personal Firehose Management
Yes, I will need to get more serious about offering MEANINGFUL tags and then maybe ask @yongfook for some way for people to subscribe to tag channels (assuming it isn't already in the API, which I haven't completely parsed just yet). It won't surprise me to find his foresight at least that comprehensive and thorough.
In other news, maybe once people see an @scobleizer equivalent firehose -- just @scobleizer, across all services, in one firehose feed beholden to no one but himself -- they will begin to understand just what one of our most extraordinary colleagues has been attempting to communicate with us mortals. I know he's been trying to do that with Friendfeed, but unfortunately, even that great service is one among many.
Ultimately, the only one true aggregation point for humans is The Individual; aka, The Node in context of global cognition grid.
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Next Feature Requests for Google Reader: LIKE and COMMENT on Shared Items
This applies to aggregate COMMENT VIEW. I'm assuming we'd all like to be able to do these two things, as opposed to visiting each and every friend's shared items, individually? Well, at least if we're helping Google to crush Friendfeed via our feature requests, anyway. ;-)
Yes, this is where it becomes a HCI design challenge again, because it will fast become YAHHF: yet another hydra-headed firehose. Hint: See @PeopleBrowsr approach and create multiple levels of functionality so that users can quickly pick the level of complexity they prefer. Something like: Basic, Reader, Social, and Firehose modes.
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Heading off to Comic Con Preview
Think Megatron will crush me if I try to send a few sneak streams from http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_preview.shtml Stay tuned. Wish I could run Tokbox or Tinychat from my S60 (Nokia E71); but may have to settle for already-installed versions of Ustream, Qik, or Flixwagon.
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Crushing Dupe Loops
One by one, shifting each of the walled garden aggregation bots to the Sweetcron Open Lifestream.
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We’re all still standard human beings. For now.
@cascio Brilliant! Congratulations on the July / August The Atlantic: Get Smarter article http://tr.im/g3tsmart3r and Thank You! Fun bit of timeline interleaving discovering this http://u.nu/747m not long after the previous post.
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The Rising Primary User Interface to the Global Cognition Grid Wars
The war is already on, it just isn't widely reported, yet. It is by now long known that folks like @scobleizer have taken a stand in the Friendfeed vs. Twitter as Primary User Interface to the Global Cognition Grid debate. Beginning today, with great gratitude to @yongfook for both the inspiration and the code, I take my stand here http://tr.im/lifestream Please let me remind that I do in fact love all of these new Extended, Augmented, Collective Cognition Tools; they are almost all great, a staggering number are indeed vital, and all are part of the evolution and emergence of this Hybrid Century, wherein we find ourselves, today. However, atomically, even as we become more Borg ... ish ... it is YOUR life and YOUR stream. From this, it's fairly straightforward to further deduce that I was therefore very happy to read @davewiner 's Not Earthshaking Announcement http://tr.im/notearthshaking -- which, if I intuit correctly, may operate something like an @feedly firehose, a Friendfeed-like stream of "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" similar to what Feedly presents in magazine format? -- In any event, I surely look forward to the emergence of that project's new perspectives, practices, and capabilities. Onward!
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Global Cognition Grid: Today's Attention Budget
Approximately 4 of the next 24 hours are available for realtime collective cognition. It appears that the meatspace attention monopoly still holds a powerful 99.999% dominance over the total attention of humanity. It's a damned-if-you-don't-damned-if-you-do enterprise to make the transition: A.) tend to the meatspace monopoly first, or lose access to the interfaces to The Grid, vs. B.) allocate sufficient resources to The Grid to become of increasing relative value, or lose relevance and effectiveness within The Grid.
I will try to make it the best four hours that I can and let the chips fall where they may.
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Friendfeed "Liked" Items
Yeah, just to clarify, liked items from FF included here. This is one way that lifestreams intertwine. You'll see thoughts from others for which I've expressed some positive affinity.
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Goodnight, Interwebz
Goodnight. Another nice feature of managing your own stream. You don't have to ping the whole FaceSpace MyBook Twttrverse with such details; but those who might try to reach me can know that I've checked out for the night.
Have a good one.
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This is the world we live in
So, the next time you're wondering, "why do I seem to have such a tough time relating to people?" just go ahead and fire this up, and eat a cookie. By the time you finish, you'll be right as rain.
