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#EisP When Everything Is Programmable
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Heads up to soup stream surfers: I'm going to import the #EisP tag for awhile. It's the "When Everything is Programmable" fall conference of IFTF's Technology Horizons program.
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Of course it's a "form letter" genius
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[Reaction to silverton]Please, trolls, try to refrain from your trollish ways for just this one day, okay? Okay. Such an unexpected historical event is surely worth archiving.
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"Begin forwarded message:From: President Barack ObamaDate: October 9, 2009 2:2..."
"Begin forwarded message:From: President Barack ObamaDate: October 9, 2009 2:25:54 PM PDTTo: Michael SilvertonSubject: A call to actionMichael --This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.But I also know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.That is why I've said that I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations and all peoples to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. These challenges won't all be met during my presidency, or even my lifetime. But I know these challenges can be met so long as it's recognized that they will not be met by one person or one nation alone.This award -- and the call to action that comes with it -- does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace. And most of all, it belongs to you, the men and women of America, who have dared to hope and have worked so hard to make our world a little better.So today we humbly recommit to the important work that we've begun together. I'm grateful that you've stood with me thus far, and I'm honored to continue our vital work in the years to come.Thank you,President Barack Obama"–2009 Nobel Peace Prize Email Letter of Acceptance
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How to Find and Subscribe to Google SideWiki RSS feed
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/30755781/How-to-Find-and-Subscribe-to-Google
To add to your own Google Reader feeds (seems like it should be auto-magic, no?), subscribe using the link at the bottom of your profile's SideWiki tab (or same location on anyone's profile, for that matter). Here's the link, just replace GOOGProfileName as appropriate:http://www.google.com/sidewiki/feeds/entries/author/GOOGProfileName/defaultHere's where to find the link for anyone using SideWiki http://www.google.com/profiles/GOOGProfileName#sidewiki
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For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning ...a note from Michael Moore
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/30518506/For-Those-of-You-on-Your-Way
For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning ...a note from Michael MooreFrom Michael MooreMichael Moore October 4 at 4:47am ReportFriends,I'd like to have a word with those of you who call yourselves Christians (Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Bill Maherists, etc. can read along, too, as much of what I have to say, I'm sure, can be applied to your own spiritual/ethical values).In my new film I speak for the first time in one of my movies about my own spiritual beliefs. I have always believed that one's religious leanings are deeply personal and should be kept private. After all, we've heard enough yammerin' in the past three decades about how one should "behave," and I have to say I'm pretty burned out on pieties and platitudes considering we are a violent nation who invades other countries and punishes our own for having the audacity to fall on hard times.I'm also against any proselytizing; I certainly don't want you to join anything I belong to. Also, as a Catholic, I have much to say about the Church as an institution, but I'll leave that for another day (or movie).Amidst all the Wall Street bad guys and corrupt members of Congress exposed in "Capitalism: A Love Story," I pose a simple question in the movie: "Is capitalism a sin?" I go on to ask, "Would Jesus be a capitalist?" Would he belong to a hedge fund? Would he sell short? Would he approve of a system that has allowed the richest 1% to have more financial wealth than the 95% under them combined?I have come to believe that there is no getting around the fact that capitalism is opposite everything that Jesus (and Moses and Mohammed and Buddha) taught. All the great religions are clear about one thing: It is evil to take the majority of the pie and leave what's left for everyone to fight over. Jesus said that the rich man would have a very hard time getting into heaven. He told us that we had to be our brother's and sister's keepers and that the riches that did exist were to be divided fairly. He said that if you failed to house the homeless and feed the hungry, you'd have a hard time finding the pin code to the pearly gates.I guess that's bad news for us Americans. Here's how we define "Blessed Are the Poor": We now have the highest unemployment rate since 1983. There's a foreclosure filing once every 7.5 seconds. 14,000 people every day lose their health insurance.At the same time, Wall Street bankers ("Blessed Are the Wealthy"?) are amassing more and more loot -- and they do their best to pay little or no income tax (last year Goldman Sachs' tax rate was a mere 1%!). Would Jesus approve of this? If not, why do we let such an evil system continue? It doesn't seem you can call yourself a Capitalist AND a Christian -- because you cannot love your money AND love your neighbor when you are denying your neighbor the ability to see a doctor just so you can have a better bottom line. That's called "immoral" -- and you are committing a sin when you benefit at the expense of others.When you are in church this morning, please think about this. I am asking you to allow your "better angels" to come forward. And if you are among the millions of Americans who are struggling to make it from week to week, please know that I promise to do what I can to stop this evil -- and I hope you'll join me in not giving up until everyone has a seat at the table.Thanks for listening. I'm off to Mass in a few hours. I'll be sure to ask the priest if he thinks J.C. deals in derivatives or credit default swaps. I mean, after all, he must've been good at math. How else did he divide up two loaves of bread and five pieces of fish equally amongst 5,000 people? Either he was the first socialist or his disciples were really bad at packing lunch. Or both.Yours,Michael MooreMMFlint@aol.comMichaelMoore.comhttp://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/inbox/?folder=[fb]updates&page;=1&tid;=1216445740846
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"Really cranking up the Webwide DVR here, now. Firehose++"
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"Really cranking up the Webwide DVR here, now. Firehose++"
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Wiki-OS Sudoku
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29543024/Wiki-OS-Sudoku-No-fit-just-here
Check out http://wiki-os.org/ for details.
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Lifestream, Interrupted
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29511101/Lifestream-Interrupted
Okay, so that's gonna be Out of Order ... that sweetcron embed got picked up by soup.io prior to the Google Reader stuff; although the Reader stuff was posted a bit earlier. Guess that's what makes a tumble log a bit different than an rssCloud or River or Stream.
P.S. When you own your own Lifestream, you can go back and fix typos. Bonus! 1. Strike 'but' Replace 'bit' 2. Strike 'that' Replace 'than.' Yes, yes, yes, we grok the potential for Lurking Revisionism. Community is workin' on solutions for that, too. ;-) -
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"Just In Case you forgot why they call it the Friendfeed Firehose."
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29501239/Just-In-Case-you-forgot-why-they
"Just In Case you forgot why they call it the Friendfeed Firehose."
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Bubble Poppers R Us
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Segway Uno?
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Segway Uno?
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Clay Shirky: Just Say No To Paywalls
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Clay Shirky: Just Say No To Paywalls
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[Reaction to silverton]Bummer. This video seems to have gone AWOL. Will see if can find it elsewhere and replace. It was great, textbook hyperbolic propaganda-indicting-propaganda. ;-)
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The Return of McCarthyism
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The Return of McCarthyism
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Google Wave: [Why] you need to pay attention to this
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29180604/Google-Wave-Why-you-need-to-pay
[Reaction to silverton]XMPP removes these intermediaries from the network. Social networks and proprietary transports no longer have an exclusive license to deliver content, the clients talk directly to one another. (via @gregorylent)http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog/2009/09/why-google-wave-is-the-coolest-thing-since-sliced-bread.html#more
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Oh Yeah, WAY BETTER Financial Content
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29174657/Oh-Yeah-WAY-BETTER-Financial-Content
[Reaction to silverton]Michael Dell on CNBC (paraphrased): "Yes, we're a solutions provider of solutions for broad-based solutions in services with new acquisitions in the fastest growing opportunities for solutions in both domestic and international growth solutions, moving forward." Ross Perot Jr. (paraphrased): "It might be untraditional money, but small businesses can find the money through untraditional sources of capital."
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Flaky Financial Bloggers - NOT TO BE TRUSTED!
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29173820/Flaky-Financial-Bloggers-NOT-TO-BE-TRUSTED
Remember, ONLY trust Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto, for they alone represent the PINNACLE of sound Financial Guidance and Comprehensive, Accurate, Timely information. Do not trust these FLAKY bloggers! Only Mainstream Media serves you the highly processed pablum you deserve.http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/09/are-financial-blogs-trustworthy/
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Some Assembly Required
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29172064/Some-Assembly-Required
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Down at the pub with Kim Stanley Robinson, Geoff Ryman and Paul McAuley
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29171941/Down-at-the-pub-with-Kim-Stanley
"It also provided a great opportunity for yours truly to put out a question to Kim Stanley Robinson about my absolute favourite author Philip K. Dick – who wrote his doctoral thesis on The Novels of Philip K. Dick. I asked which was his favourite PKD book, and also how he felt that his works had influenced him.After stating that it is obviously difficult to choose just one of PKD’s excellent books – and listing many of the more famous and well-known ones – he settled upon the relatively unknown Now Wait for Last Year. The influence that PKD has had on his work is mostly two-fold, and is something he has spoken about in previous interviews. Mainly, that the characters in PKD’s novels are often just everyday individuals, the little people – a strategy that brings the truth inherent within science fiction out with remarkable efficiency.He also praised Philip K. Dick for his excellent use of literary structure and the way in which he can utilise different character viewpoints in order to create a more cohesive vision. By shifting perspective we can see not only what a character thinks of themselves, but also gain insight into how others see them – creating a more realised and immersive world."http://www.futureconscience.com/kim-stanley-robinson-geoff-ryman-paul-mcauley/
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Some Assembly Required
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29134735/Some-Assembly-Required
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/where_is_the_real_time_web_message_bus.php
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/09/19/dnsProgressAnotherWishForA.html
http://github.com/facebook/tornado
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/tornado-web-server
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OH from Collective Right-Wing Paternal Superstructure: "Stop wasting your tim...
OH from Collective Right-Wing Paternal Superstructure: "Stop wasting your time and go get a JOB. Only JOBs justify your existence. Stop wasting your time on all that ART crap. LOSER."
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Slow as soup? Kinda' bummed at apparent CNAME costs here.
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29126336/Slow-as-soup-Kinda-bummed-at-apparent
Slow as soup? Kinda' bummed at apparent CNAME costs here.
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25.8 Million Americans OUT OF WORK and Growing: Some Simple Math
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/29032690/25-8-Million-Americans-OUT-OF-WORK
Planet Money writes "The ranks of the unemployed now include 14.9 million people in the U.S., up by 466,000 since last month." But that's not all, "The broadest measure of unemployment -- U6, which includes discouraged workers and those working part-time because all they can get -- hit 16.8 percent. That's up from 16.3 percent in July."NPR News adds, "Unemployment Hits 26-Year High Of 9.7 Percent - The number of weekly hours worked remained at 33.1, above the low of 33 reached in June. Economists think companies will add more hours for current workers before hiring new ones."This ain't ending any time soon, friends, if ever. So, why do we stay so fixated on what worked in 1850, when we are here on the cusp of 2050? It's really not that far away, boys and girls; think how recent 1970 was, from today's perspective. That's how close 2050 is, in the other direction.Let's try some simple math: if 9.7% average unemployment means 14.9 million Americans on or approaching skid row, then the actual 16.8% total unemployment means at least 25.8 million Americans -- human beings like you and me -- out of work, right now. Of course, we all know that these figures are based upon reports filed by people who are still sufficiently connected to the bureaucracy to even bother filling out the forms; so those who have dropped entirely off the grid are still not accounted for. Let's be super conservative and call that 10% of the 25.8M total.That brings our number of Americans out of work to 28.4 million. For the sake of thinking just slightly ahead, if we call 20% a more forward-leaning estimate, that puts the total over 30 million. Even if that's a tiny bit high for today, it won't be very long until that number is indeed reached, right? If not during this particular roller coaster cycle, the next one or the one after that, because these numbers do nothing but grow, over time. That's not a direct indictment, because ironically, it's mostly because of how EFFICIENT we've become!More on that efficiency later.For the moment, just imagine 30 million Americans Out of Work and told that their only options are to find More Pretend Work or live on the streets. This, while empty housing and commercial space inventories are approaching all time highs. Oh, and housing starts are ticking up so we're building even more Empty Houses and more Empty Offices.But they'll stay empty, unless you go back to playing YouTube videos in a cubicle instead of doing it right where you are, where you can keep an eye on your kids, help them learn, be involved in your community, and continue your own program of lifelong learning that could very well lead to the next breakthrough innovation -- even small but economically meaningful ones -- because you were finally afforded the 20% time REQUIRED for new solutions to come to fruition.Yet, here we are, closing in on U6 Total Unemployment of 20%, where suddenly 30% doesn't seem that far out of reach.Aren't those 30 million American lives enough already, or do we really have to wait for 30%? Do we have to wait until ONE THIRD OF AMERICA is ON THE STREET before we simply call it what it is -- The Ultimate Achievement of Industrial Capitalism: Structual Unemployment -- and move on to the inevitable Basic Income solution? Do we really need to keep stalling?Why keep kicking the proverbial Good Samaritan while he's down with the same vapid sentiment of kicking the can down the road? We all know that, "yeah, some time in the future" things will be as we describe them; so why not just go ahead and start fixing things now? Do we really need to keep up the same dysfunctional cycle of perpetuating crises before implementing positive adaptations that we all know are inevitable, anyway? As a nation, as a global village, we can break this cycle of systemic self-loathing procrastination, if we simply choose to do so in large enough numbers. All of "the economic rules" that govern our expectations and interactions are implemented fictions: we made them up, and we can change them to better suit our desired outcomes for a world of sustainable abundance and peace.I believe that it is no overstatement to suggest that, by the standards of 1776 existence, we are indeed very close to a place where we can confidently declare Mission Accomplished in terms of providing unconditional material sufficiency for everyone. Even if we are not "quite" there, the goal is sufficiently within reach to begin adapting our institutions to that inevitability, today. By what possible logically consistent rationale would we continue to so demure?Rating: 0/5
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"In each generation a stack has emerged, and secure messaging has been key to that stack."
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/28980110/In-each-generation-a-stack-has-emerged
"In each generation a stack has emerged, and secure messaging has been key to that stack." And yet, I'm so often given infinite shit, Even By Developers for using Anonymizer proxy for everything. What gives, man? We're on the same team, right? Okay. W/E. LMO ...
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Nevermind, found it for myself.
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/28977580/Nevermind-found-it-for-myself
[Reaction to silverton]How to lose even MORE prospective customers in the name of "improving" the platform so that everyone has to start all over. Nice! I'm think Seesmic may have officially Jumped the Shark with "Seesmic Web." It's really too bad, but seen it a million times and it will happen a million more.http://ff.im/6wzlW
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No Reply At All ... There's No Reply At All ... isanybodylistenin? oh-oh-oh ....
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[Reaction to silverton]genesis No Reply At Allby massi95No Reply At All ... There's No Reply At All ... isanybodylistenin? oh-oh-oh ... ;-)
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"So at least this helps provide some measure of Job Security for anyone workin..."
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[Reaction to silverton]"So at least this helps provide some measure of Job Security for anyone working on this set of challenges. I didn't say Income Security; but that has little or nothing to do with engaging in meaningful work. This is one of the many glaring disconnects in the current state of economic anomie. Many of us have LONG since dropped off all measures of 1850's style "employment" and yet don't have enough hours in the day to get all our WORK done. So Work and Income have become entirely decoupled in an accelerating number of information worker contexts. See Modern Work is Mostly a Lie."
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What you see is not what you Should Get
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[Reaction to silverton]Okay, so the single "Share with Note" object comes across the wire, but ZERO CONTEXT for Annotations and Comments made in the G-Reader or Feedly contexts. Ugh.
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NFS! Standards for Social Responsibility
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/28959378/NFS-Standards-for-Social-Responsibility
Some days, the world indeed surprises you with what appear to be Incredibly Good Right Things. I could do just fine in a world with increased frequency of such developments. ;-)Thanks to the imminent (and soon eminent) Dr. Fidler.I'll come back and link to a pertinent earlier essay, once today's Reader Blips show up here. Salient bit, written several hours before discovering this bias-confirming item:"WHY we build the next advances in technology and society needs to take on a new hierarchy of meaning, an entirely New Narrative of Sustainability and Conscious Intentionality. When "low hanging fruit" gets laughed out of every napkin-top discussion with equal derision to "intelligent design," we may be getting somewhere." - @silvertonRating: 0/5
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Soup-lag: Pretty sure it'll improve over time
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/28958931/Soup-lag-Pretty-sure-itll-improve-over
Will be interesting to see how or if today's Google Reader items get fetched. It's been like 6 hours and nothing so far. I know there are good reasons for this, not complaining, just noting the observation. ;-)
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Feedly: The Wave before The Wave?
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/28944191/Feedly-The-Wave-before-The-Wave
Man, the more I use Feedly, the more I just love it. It's completely changed the way I navigate and interact with the realtime aggregate Feed of All Feeds of all friends and content across the inter-weba-verse. One thing I've noticed is that Feedly seems to be already accomplishing many of the things that we all HOPE the Wave Federation Protocol will improve upon. One of those desired improvements, from my perspective, will be the ability to link directly to ANY GRANULARITY OF OF CONTENT, ANYWHERE IN THE STREAM. Right now, all too often I find myself in Feedly looking around for, "where do I find a DIRECT LINK to this precise location in the stream?" only to find it not there. This is not a criticism of Feedly, it's just an additional ambition for it.As I've experienced in in the Sandbox, the Wave articulation and implementation of the "blip" as an atomic unit of "linkable-to" information would seem to be a natural enabler of this essential capability.http://feedly.com
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Please, 30 seconds to Sign this DFA Petition: America Can't Wait For Meaningful Healtcare Reform
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/28941773/Please-30-seconds-to-Sign-this-DFA
Yes, we tried in every way to include the #tinfoilhats in #healthcare reform, but fact of the matter is, the Senate only needs 50 senators and Vice-President Biden to pass -- by majority vote -- healthcare reform including a public option in a budget bill this year. http://americacantwait.com/
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Declan is as Declan Does ...
http://soup.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/post/28871786/Declan-is-as-Declan-Does
Doin' what he's always done best, I must say. ;-)http://politechbot.com/docs/rockefeller.cybersecurity.questions.082809.txt
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