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Paul Buchheit: The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting.
http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/
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The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - http://www.slate.com/id...
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"But to Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, this supposed pleasure center didn't look very much like it was producing pleasure. Those self-stimulating rats, and later those humans, did not exhibit the euphoric satisfaction of creatures eating Double Stuf Oreos or repeatedly having orgasms. The animals, he writes in Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions, were "excessively excited, even crazed." The rats were in a constant state of sniffing and foraging. Some of the human subjects described feeling sexually aroused but didn't experience climax. Mammals stimulating the lateral hypothalamus seem to be caught in a loop, Panksepp writes, "where each stimulation evoked a reinvigorated search strategy". It is an emotional state Panksepp tried many names for: curiosity, interest, foraging, anticipation, craving, expectancy. He finally settled on seeking. ... In order to have the maximum effect, the cues should be small, discrete, specific—like the bell Pavlov rang for his dogs. Panksepp says a way to drive animals into a frenzy is to give them only tiny bits of food: This simultaneously stimulating and unsatisfying tease sends the seeking system into hyperactivity. Berridge says the "ding" announcing a new e-mail or the vibration that signals the arrival of a text message serves as a reward cue for us. And when we respond, we get a little piece of news (Twitter, anyone?), making us want more. These information nuggets may be as uniquely potent for humans as a Froot Loop to a rat. When you give a rat a minuscule dose of sugar, it engenders "a panting appetite," Berridge says—a powerful and not necessarily pleasant state." - Paul Buchheit
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This is something casinos have known for a long time - think about slots, etc. All hitting that same 'seeking' button. - Ken Gidley
Kamilah- I make time to focus on great artwork, and most people don't understand what makes artwork great post "The Urinal" anyway. Most people reading this also don't realize the difference of reading this versus posting from Pubmed, and how very little we know about the brain and illness of insantiy and of the brain. Saying it is the opoid system tells me very little, since right now we talk as if we can hit the brain over the head with a chemical, behavioral, or environmental hammer and it will work. We're finding out more over time, that this is not the case, because of our grey matter. We are rare creatures with the ability to at least partially overcome and understand and introspect. Be a tad more suspicious, and wonder in the fact that you are human with the ability to not only understand, but also to create. - Shana
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Unemployment Rate Could Take Decade to Return to 6% (via feedly)
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As we've been saying all year boys-n-girls ... Structural Unemployment leads to requirement for Basic Income ... particularly considering that the numbers here are HALF of the U6 Full Unemployment Reality. That means, this research is saying TOTAL unemployment is unlikely to return below 12%!
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An end to the recession is unlikely to bring any improvement in hiring in the U.S., a new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City argues
The research, made available on the bank’s Web site, affirms the widely held view that hiring is unlikely to spike much even if the recession ends, as most believe is imminent, and warns things could be worse than now thought. Persistent levels of high unemployment could also change how the Fed assesses inflation pressures, with important and as yet unsettled implications for monetary policy.
Written by Edward Knotek and Stephen Terry, the paper asserts two main forces explain why something akin to a jobless recovery is likely to follow the end of the recession. First, there have been changes in the structure of the economy that make employers more reluctant to take on new hires. And second, recessions begat by banking crises tend to cast longer shadows on recoveries, depressing the pace of job growth.
The paper’s authors project what they believe will be the course of joblessness, adjusted for structural changes in the economy and the impact of the banking crisis. That path sees unemployment breaching 10% and staying there through 2011, after which it “slowly drifts” down to 8% by 2014 and 7% by 2016. Even a decade down the road, unemployment could be above 6%, the paper warns.
This outlook is considerably worse than what would be expected based on a normal post-war recession, or even the aftermath of a recession like those of recent experience.
The paper was published after last Friday’s release of July hiring data. That report showed a moderation in the pace of job losses and an unexpected move down in the unemployment rate. While economists and investors took comfort in the report, there was a sense that the unemployment rate decline was a quirk of falling labor force participation, and that it’s pretty likely that measure will again begin to rise.
Economists have for some time been anticipating job losses, even as they see modest growth returning to the economy. What is now a 9.4% unemployment rate is seen as peaking at 9.9% in December, according to The Wall Street Journal’s most recent survey of forecasters.
The paper’s authors allow their worst-case scenario may not play out. Their estimates rely in part on data from other countries that may not fit the American experience closely enough. The somewhat unique U.S. system for credit allocation, which relies more heavily on markets over banks, could also skew the data in unexpected ways.
The forceful response of government — extraordinary Fed policy actions coupled with huge government stimulus efforts — could also work to create a less ugly outcome.
The study warns changed labor market dynamics could also skew the so-called natural rate of unemployment toward a higher level, which in turn means the lower levels of unemployment could create the sort of inflationary forces the Fed would be forced to deal with.
But there’s uncertainty on this point. “Estimates of the natural rate are likely to be an important topic for policy makers for the foreseeable future.”
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Robert Scoble: Hanging with @pearanalytics who owns #1 Trending topic on Twitter found that 40% of Tweets are babble
http://ourdoings.com/robertscoble/2009-08-12#e5560
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He did a study on Twitter behavior http://www.pearanalytics.com - Robert Scoble
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Did he tweet that? ;-) - You
@Josh indeed:) - Keven
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You: Can IP push Blu-ray out of the way?
http://www.fierceiptv.com/story/can-ip-push-blu-ray-out-way/2009-08-12?utm_medium=rss&utm;_source=rss&cmp-id;=OTC-RSS-FI0
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This isn't even a question. The question is, why hasn't EthernetTV blasted all other forms of distribution out of the water, already? The answer is: monopolistic telco & cable in the local loop. Same as it ever was. - You
August 12 2009, 3:13pm | Comments »
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Markets: Everyone Knows The Shit Hits the Fan in October
Therefore, the highest probability for $ES_F 600 is shifted to either September or November. In any event, if you're not comfortable with futures hedges, one best find some kind of insurance policy. Maybe iPath S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures ETN or similar, are worth a look.
Remember, save the link so you can come back and make me eat my hat ... or ... bring your hat so we can get you on video. ;-)
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Just because it's ironic doesn't mean it isn't true
- "I think Wave's capabilities actually exceed human capacity to interact."
- "It's probably best to pare down those exorbitant expectations."
Both quotes are from previously posted Engadget write up at http://u.nu/9snt
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Google Wave dev preview hands-on and impressions (via feedly)
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/google-wave-dev-preview-hands-on-and-impressions/
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Fantastic write-up, Ross Miller! This is an accurate and fairly complete initial overview. I don't mean initial as pejorative; I mean, it's accurate for what we all see and experience On The Surface. Implications for features such as, "private in-line replies to public threads" are what lead Engadget mobile editor Chris Ziegler to (I believe accurately) suggest that, "I think Wave's capabilities actually exceed human capacity to interact." Certainly, Engadget's closing line is always a good idea, with all new capabilities; namely, "it's probably best to pare down those exorbitant expectations" in the meantime.
After an impressive debut at Google I/O, the company's newest experiment and collaborative chat client has been making its way into the hands of developers in the lead-up to a torrent of new testers on September 30th. We had a chance to stop by Google's San Francisco office last week for a guided tour of the latest build of Wave with creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen, and have since then spent the better part of our free time working through the ins and outs of the new communication platform. Does it live up to the hype, even in this bug-infested interim build? Read on to find out.Continue reading Google Wave dev preview hands-on and impressionsFiled under: SoftwareGoogle Wave dev preview hands-on and impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments [extracted from Google Wave dev preview hands-on and impressions via feedly]
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Calorie Restriction, Intermittent Fasting, and Cancer Risk (via feedly)
http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/view_news_item.cfm?news_id=4331
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Awesome. This is precisely the program we've been following for the past several years. Still, WE NEED MORE DATA!!! None of these emerging approaches is anywhere near "proven" or "failsafe" these are simply approaches for which WE ARE THE GUINEA PIGS. Reliable experimental results within the domain of Healthy Life Extension strike me as perhaps the most meaningful legacy we can leave to the next generations.
FuturePundit looks at one of a number of studies showing calorie restriction to reduce the risk of cancer: "Previous studies have shown that intermittent calorie restriction provided greater protection from mammary tumor development than did the same overall degree of restriction, which was implemented in a chronic fashion. The researchers compared changes of a growth factor (IGF-1) in relationship to these two calorie restriction methods - chronic and intermittent - and tumor development beginning in 10-week old female mice at risk to develop mammary tumors. Their hope was to explain why intermittent restriction is more effective. The overall degree of restriction was 25 percent reduction compared to control mice. Mammary tumor incidence was 71 percent in the control mice who ate the amount of food they wanted, 35 percent among those who were chronically restricted and only nine percent in those who intermittently restricted calories." Which is further evidence for those who suspect that intermittent fasting operates through different biochemical mechanisms to calorie restriction, despite a similar outcome in terms of extended health and longevity.
View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/006434.html
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Robert Scoble: True FRIENDFEED addicts please check in:
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Monkey #1496 reporting in, sir. For true ADDICT status, I'd say the cut off is the first hour. The rest of us are wannabes. ;-) - You
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August 11 2009, 4:58pm | Comments »
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On Google File System (via feedly)
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One Global File System, to Store Them All.
Google File System is "a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications" created by Google. Initially used to store Google's search indexes and the crawling data, GFS is now mostly used to store user generated content.ACM has an interesting interview with Sean Quinlan, who was a GFS tech lead and is now a principal engineer at Google.Although organizations don't make a habit of exchanging file-system statistics, it's safe to assume that GFS is the largest file system in operation (in fact, that was probably true even before Google's acquisition of YouTube). Hence, even though the original architects of GFS felt they had provided adequately for at least a couple of orders of magnitude of growth, Google quickly zoomed right past that.One thing that helped tremendously was that Google built not only the file system but also all of the applications running on top of it. While adjustments were continually made in GFS to make it more accommodating to all the new use cases, the applications themselves were also developed with the various strengths and weaknesses of GFS in mind. "Because we built everything, we were free to cheat whenever we wanted to," Gobioff neatly summarized. "We could push problems back and forth between the application space and the file-system space, and then work out accommodations between the two."The guys who built Gmail went to a multihomed model, so if one instance of your Gmail account got stuck, you would basically just get moved to another data center. Actually, that capability was needed anyway just to ensure availability. Still, part of the motivation was that they wanted to hide the GFS problems.{ Thanks, Daniel. }
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Spaceweaver: Salvia on Schedule: Law, Medicine and a Hallucinogen: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=salvia-on-schedule
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"As the source of the most powerful natural hallucinogen known, salvia is drawing scrutiny from U.S. authorities who want to restrict this Mexican herb, now used recreationally by some. But neuroscientists worry that controlling it before studies have determined its safety profile is premature and could hamper research of the drug's medicinal value. Increasingly, evidence is piling up that it could lead to new and safer antidepressants and pain relievers, as well as even help in improving treatments for such mental illnesses as schizophrenia and addiction." - Spaceweaver
August 11 2009, 6:06am | Comments »
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Alex Scoble: I'm going to start a business where I charge people money to have me kick other people in the crotch...and when they look at me and say "WHAT THE FUCK, DUDE?" I'm going to look at them straight in the eye and say "it's just business."
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I'm going to start a business where I charge people money to have me kick other people in the crotch...and when they look at me and say "WHAT THE FUCK, DUDE?" I'm going to look at them straight in the eye and say "it's just business."
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Works for the mob. Dangerous though. - Jason Wehmhoener
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LoL wow, that is complete amazing. Sounds like a web show or something that I'd like to Youtube when drinking. :-P - Matthew Horton
Wow. Where do I invest at par value, man? - You
August 10 2009, 7:16pm | Comments »
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Paul Buchheit: After signing the papers :)
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After signing the papers :)
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Awesome! Congratulations! - You
Ouch . . . just a tad bit of salt in the wounds of some of your more loyal users. I've got a poker if you want to inflict a little more pain - Lindsey is Fierce!
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Inorganic flora
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PinkTentacle/~3/azhQ_pfSknk/
CG illustrator Macoto Murayama takes a unique look at the organic beauty of flowers by highlighting their geometric and mechanical structure.
H. annuus
H. annuus
H. annuus
Lily
Lily
Lily
Lily
C. morifolium
Gerbera
Gerbera
C. warneri [+]
C. warneri [+]
Rosa [+]
Prunus
[Links: Creators Bank, TORAY]
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Is a Fascist Movement Emerging in the USA? (via feedly)
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Food for thought, boys n' girls. Serious food ... for serious thought.
Most of the show is taken up with my rant about the right-wingnuts disrupting Democratic town halls, and reading a bit of the essay “Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?” By Sara Robinson. (MP3)
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Liberating Literacies: Getting Beyond Skills to Empowering Better Humans
"So I got very excited about this idea of Critical Thinking, and went to my daughter's school and learned that, that phrase, that idea -- Critical Thinking -- is widely known as a plot to induce children to challenge authority. Therefore, it's very difficult to get it past the school board, and in fact, that is accurate, and that I think is part of the problem we have to face. I'm not sure that schools are the place where education of this kind is going to happen." - @hrheingold
"The divergence of schooling and education, of course, is not a new idea, it goes back at least to Ivan Illich and the Deschooling Society; but, he was writing long before we had these other issues to deal with. Schools are going to remain places where we park our kids while we go to work and where they learn to be good 19th and 20th century industrial civilization workers. Unfortunately, we're in the 21st century." - @hrheingold
"I think, we have to understand that media production -- cultural production that all of these media I'm talking about enable -- is different, a very significant way, from other forms of production; from steel or textiles or agriculture, in the sense that media enable, but don't guarantee, that people can inform, persuade, and influence the beliefs of others; and I think most importantly, to help them to organize collective action on all scales."
Much, much more, as always, on Howard's Vlog
August 7 2009, 3:54pm | Comments »
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brianwang (i): Some of the Healthcare Discussion Includes Fixing Aging and Disease
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/08/some-of-healthcare-discussion-includes.html
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On Neuropolitics, Noopolitics, or Not
Glimpsing this wonderfully animated and salient post-debate reminds me of just how much the choice to engage in conscious task-switching-as-an-experimental-lifestyle can cost, at times. The joy in considering the various perspectives presented in this exploration is nearly sufficient to keep me focused long enough to attempt my own minor contribution.
Alas, a persistent interest in the increasingly real-time interconnection, interleaving, interaction, and intercognitional functioning of lifestreams, lifewaves (the Google Wave version, on the horizon), as precursors to the eventual, inevitable amalgamation of The Intermind itself, presently persists in asserting its neocortical metavalence. Hence, I settle for linking together a few of the streams here, as a personal Memex record for my own review; and of course, in further hopes that others might more quickly survey, assess, and synthesize.
"Politics is part of a healthy society -- it's what happens when you have a group of people with differential goals and a persistent relationship." - Jamais Cascio
"Politics is about interfering with other people’s lives without their consent. I advocate focusing energy elsewhere, onto peaceful projects that some consider utopian." -
Peter Thiel
"How the new group or place is run is less important than how it relates to the existing powers to create a sustainable niche." - Brian Wang
"I would not say that politics would be eliminated after a Singularity, but its nature would be changed so much that our present-day thinking would become largely irrelevant to it." - Michael Anissimov
"Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy." - Eliezer Yudkowski
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brianwang (i): How Independent Could a Seastead or a Colony in the Solar System Be ?
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/08/how-independent-could-seastead-or.html
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wa8dzp (i): The health insurers have already won, says BusinessWeek -- by redefining the terms of the debate: http://tr.im/vRpj (via @whitehousewatch)
http://twitter.com/wa8dzp/statuses/3179579118
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Video: Robots cook delicious ramen noodles for expendable humans (via feedly)
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/video-robots-cook-delicious-ramen-noodles-for-expendable-humans/
So you think you've seen robot chefs before, huh? Well, actually, yes you probably have -- but you sure as hell haven't seen a mechanical cook spinning plates, right? We thought so. The latest culinary drone, hailing from Nagoya, Japan, features a pair of delightfully dextrous arms and is capable of serving up a yummy bowl of ramen noodles in under two minutes. With such rapid speed, the bots get some downtime, which they fill by performing a little show for their clientele. Trust us, you really don't wanna be the one person who didn't see the surreal duel that lies beyond the break.[Via Switched]Continue reading Video: Robots cook delicious ramen noodles for expendable humansFiled under: RobotsVideo: Robots cook delicious ramen noodles for expendable humans originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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How to Acquire Your New Sixth Sense (External, pre-BCI Edition)
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@hrheingold's Digital Journalism Pipe (need CSS color tweeks herein)
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Howard Rheingold: @reffervescent I am also v interested in helping everyone else understand some of what librarians know about search & credibility
http://twitter.com/hrheingold/statuses/3171142939
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@reffervescent I am also v interested in helping everyone else understand some of what librarians know about search & credibility
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how we're wiring up credibility ... especially the the ability to regain it if and when it slips ... especially if it's ME doing the slipping ... is what led me to find tools like http://muuter.com/ and begin to plead for inclusion of this capability in next iteration of collective cognition tools. i know i can get 'noisy' at times ... others don't ... but i do ... so i do try to come back to some sense of center ... maybe i wouldn't permanently lose connections over occasional, unintended infractions. - You
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Identi.ca More Promising in Many Respects
For all the pontificating about points of failure and such, today, I embarrassed myself by not understanding MUCH more about Identi.ca.
Although, just now revisiting identi.ca today, I did hit one of these (essentially equivalent to Twitter Fail Whales, so really not even noteworthy):
--- No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. ---
So, even in a distributed infrastructure, we still need sufficient bandwidth and some tipping point number of nodes take probability of a failed request as close to zero as possible. Obviously, it's just never going to be zero in any case.
Still, it's very much worth recalling, encouraging, and FUNDING R&D along these specific lines:
From the Identi.ca FAQ:
How is Identi.ca different from Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, others?
Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users' autonomy. In particular, all the software used for Identi.ca is Free Software, and all the data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.
The software also implements the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services that can receive your notices.
The goal here is autonomy -- you deserve the right to manage your own on-line presence. If you don't like how Identi.ca works, you can take your data and the source code and set up your own server (or move your account to another one).
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The UI is the Platform, Exhibit W: Windows 7
Gizmodo saith:
Windows 7 is the biggest step forward in usability since Windows 95. In fact, over half of what makes it better than Vista boils down to user interface improvements and enhancements, not so much actual new features.
August 6 2009, 3:00pm | Comments »
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Individual Twitter [Methodology | Usage | Style] Reboots?
Who started this whole bruhaha, anyway?
Correlation isn't causation; but finally, new memes can be traced back through the streams. Just wait until you see the changes Google Wave shall yet unleash into the cognospheres.
August 6 2009, 1:52pm | Comments »
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Dan Perlman: @kosmix #lunch20 Bret Taylor #friendfeed is impressive to listen to
http://friendfeed.com/techgolem/796df618/kosmix-lunch20-bret-taylor-friendfeed-is
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@kosmix #lunch20 Bret Taylor #friendfeed is impressive to listen to
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How is kosmix something new all of a sudden at #lunch20 ? Pretty sure I looked at this company in 2006? Anyway, I briefly, briefly met Bret Taylor at Stanford-MIT Venture Lab. Told several friends and seat-mates at the time, "there's the next billionaire in the pipeline." Didn't get the chance to bounce ideas of him of how to do more and do better than the billionaires before him, though. ;-) http://capitalismplusplus.blogspot.com/ for instance. - You
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On Genuine, Authentic Thought Leadership
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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Alex Scoble: When it comes to security, it's impossible to be 100% secure. There is always risk, no matter how many levels of protection you have. Same thing is true of content protection. It is impossible to stop a pirate from cracking your piracy protections that you have built in to a CD.
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When it comes to security, it's impossible to be 100% secure. There is always risk, no matter how many levels of protection you have. Same thing is true of content protection. It is impossible to stop a pirate from cracking your piracy protections that you have built in to a CD.
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Good security is all about trade-offs; there's always a point beyond which adding security to a system imposes a cost that is worse than the potential attack itself. - Tristan Seligmann
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Agree 100% with you on that one Alex. - Jim Connolly
http://ff.im/6fHmz I'd say the message of Strong Authentication, Encryption, P2P, UMSB is like a broken record, but the only records ppl are familiar with any more are database entries. ;-) - You
August 6 2009, 8:58am | Comments »
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Sarah Vela: taking my kid to the orthodontist. I expect y'all to have this all figured out by the time I get back.
http://friendfeed.com/orchid8/2f12218a/taking-my-kid-to-orthodontist-i-expect-y-all-have
Sarah Vela
taking my kid to the orthodontist. I expect y'all to have this all figured out by the time I get back.
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there you go expecting common sense again, sarah. then the disappointment ... again. ;-) SRSLY though, nice to make the acquaintance. - You
August 6 2009, 8:21am | Comments »
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Meryn Stol: The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics
http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory/book.shtml
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The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics - http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory...
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"Dr. Mills has advanced the field generally known as Quantum Mechanics by deriving a new atomic theory--The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics (GUT-CP)--from first principles, which unifies Maxwell’s Equations, Newton’s Laws, and Einstein’s General and Special Relativity. The central feature is that physical laws hold over all scales, from the scale of subatomic particles to that of the cosmos." - Meryn Stol
Blacklight Power has raised $50MM venture capital based on his ideas... Dr. Mills can not be considered a "typical" crackpot. - Meryn Stol
August 6 2009, 8:11am | Comments »
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You: .@cyberwar maybe ppl will start paying attention some day. single point of failure #FAIL every time. Strong Authentication, Encryption, P2P
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.@cyberwar maybe ppl will start paying attention some day. single point of failure #FAIL every time. Strong Authentication, Encryption, P2P
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Oh, but that would all be dependent upon Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth ... and who would ever need that right? http://tr.im/msbecon It's not like the Foundation of our Entire Economy, or a National Security issue or anything. http://u.nu/5wqr - You
August 6 2009, 8:07am | Comments »
