November 30th, 2010Uncategorized
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“Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more.”
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“I enjoy every single minute of my life.”
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“But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they’re not worth getting stressed about.”
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“You can’t be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.”
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“There is no one to follow, there is nothing to copy.”
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“I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive, then I believe you are better off doing nothing.”
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“I never had any intention of being an entrepreneur.”
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“I made and learned from lots of mistakes.“
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“If you can indulge in your passion, life will be far more interesting than if you’re just working.”
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November 24th, 2010Fun, Images
November 19th, 2010Social Learning
| Readers of my previous rants will notice a parallel between my discomfort with so-called “Artificial Intelligence” and the race to erase personality and be most Meta. In each case, there’s a presumption that something like a distinct kin to individual human intelligence is either about to appear any minute, or has already appeared. The problem with that presumption is that people are all too willing to lower standards in order to make the purported newcomer appear smart. Just as people are willing to bend over backwards and make themselves stupid in order to make an AI interface appear smart (as happens when someone can interact with the notorious Microsoft paper clip,) so are they willing to become uncritical and dim in order to make Meta-aggregator sites appear to be coherent.
There is a pedagogical connection between the culture of Artificial Intelligence and the strange allure of anonymous collectivism online. Google’s vast servers and the Wikipedia are both mentioned frequently as being the startup memory for Artificial Intelligences to come. Larry Page is quoted via a link presented to me by popurls this morning (who knows if it’s accurate) as speculating that an AI might appear within Google within a few years. George Dyson has wondered if such an entity already exists on the Net, perhaps perched within Google. My point here is not to argue about the existence of Metaphysical entities, but just to emphasize how premature and dangerous it is to lower the expectations we hold for individual human intellects.
The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we’re devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots.Read more at hotlantis.blogspot.com |
October 28th, 2010Like Minds
October 18th, 2010Change, Education, Videos
Will physical books be gone in five years?
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Physical books gone in 5 years?
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“It will be in five years,” said Negroponte. “The physical medium cannot be distributed to enough people. When you go to Africa, half a million people want books … you can’t send the physical thing.”
Read more at edition.cnn.com |
October 15th, 2010Learning, Videos
October 15th, 2010Learning, Videos
September 30th, 2010Google, Science
I Am a Cyborg and I Want My Google Implant Already
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| one such thing being a “Google implant” that would allow one to browse the Web simply by thinking. |
Nate: What will Google look like in 2020?
Hal: Now you Google things on your computer — of course. And you Google things on your phone. That’s the next stage. And I believe — people may laugh — but I think there will be an implant. So you’ll have it there, and I won’t say it’s necessarily Google, I’ll say the Web, it will access the Web of information.
Arikia: Sign me up when that happens.
Hal: You want your implant?
Arikia: I want it now.
[laughter]
Hal: Yeah! Right, see? There are a lot of people that say that. I think you will be continuously connected to the Web in 2020. You’ll be able to pull information in, information out, you’ll be able to record information. And you can do all these things now; you’re recording this conversation and you can play it back later.
Nate: Sure. But you think that soon, by 2020?
Hal: 2020! That’s away 10 years! Look at where we are and look at where we were 10 years ago. Google’s only 10 years old. So uh, yeah, I think so. We’ll certainly have some kind of implant interface by then, in my opinion.
Nate: Will it require surgery? Or will it require some kind of earpiece that you can… I don’t know…
Hal: I don’t know either.
Nate: Are there people at the firm working on that?
Hal: Not that I know of. Although there are people always working on user interfaces, so I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was thinking about it. There are people working on things that display text on your glasses.Read more at www.theatlantic.com |
September 30th, 2010Collaboration, Community, Engagement
| CoPs (Communities of Practice) |
Communities of Practice - What are CoPs? At the simplest level, they are a small group of people who have worked together over a period of time. Not a team, not a task force, probably not even an authorized or identified group. People in CoPs can perform the same job (tech reps) or collaborate on a shared task (software developers) or work together on a product (engineers, marketers, and manufacturing specialists). They are peers in the execution of “real work.” What holds them together is a common sense of purpose and a real need to know what each other knows. There are many communities of practice within a single company, and most people belong to more than one of them.
Read more at diversitynet.org |
September 25th, 2010Engagement, Social Learning
September 15th, 2010Facebook
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this could get really out of hand. what if people start taking pictures of other people in order to trace them… they could easily get their facebook name just from a pic.
Read more at www.youtube.com |
September 2nd, 2010Fun, Images, Social Media
August 18th, 2010Blogging, Fun, Images
August 18th, 2010Fun
| The population of the US is 300 million. 160 million are retired.
That leaves 140 million to do the work. There are 85 million in school. Which leaves 55 million to do the work. Of this there are 35 million employed by the federal government. Leaving 15 million to do the work. 2.8 million are in the armed forces. Which leaves 12.2 million to do the work.
Take from that total the 10.8 million people who work for state and city Governments. And that leaves 1.4 million to do the work. At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals. Leaving 1,212,000 to do the work. Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. That leaves just two people to do the work.
You and me. And there you are, sitting on your ass, At your computer, reading jokes.Read more at simbeckhampson.ning.com |
August 16th, 2010Creativity, Engagement, Fun, Innovation, Social Media, Technology
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S2H IS GETTING PEOPLE ACTIVE
000,023,611
Total Hours of Activity
As you can see, we’re getting people moving! The S2H ACTIVITY revolution has started,
and you should get on board!
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Read more at www.s2h.com |
August 5th, 2010Facebook
Rina Tripathi Try meditating , This always works: take a bucket half filled with warm water, put a fist ful of salt and dip your feet in it with a candle lit in front of you and incense, you can also close your eyes. five or ten minutes work wonders. Looks simple but is effective.
Read more at www.facebook.com |
July 30th, 2010Collaboration
3 Universal Goals to Influence People
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In the most part humans are social so they want to be liked. Rejection is no fun and we’ll do almost anything to avoid it.
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People who don’t care about doing things correctly never get anywhere in life. To achieve our goals in what is a complicated world, we have to be continually trying to work out the best course of action.
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3. Goal of maintaining positive self-concept
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People want to protect their view of themselves because it takes a long time to build up a semi-coherent view of oneself and one’s place in the world.
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Everybody wants to be accurate, to affiliate with others and to maintain their concept of themselves, however little awareness we might have of these goals. Effective persuasion and influence attempts can target one or more of these goals.
Read more at www.spring.org.uk |
July 22nd, 2010Social Media
Avoid the #1 Mistake People Make in Media
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 The famed “no comment”.
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Do you respond to comments to your posts? Do you comment on other blogs?
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There are 7 types of memorable comments
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| Responding to a question in the post |
| Adding a thought provoking question of your own |
| Making an open ended statement as additional thought |
| Pointing to other resources |
| Extending the conversation to other applications |
| Providing an example as a case study |
July 19th, 2010Creativity, Psychology
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When blogger Kevin Williams asked his psychologist what the difference was between being mentally ill and being prophetic, the head expert said: “People who hear voices and see things that aren’t there can be classified into two groups. The first group are people who cannot cope with these voices and are called mentally ill. The second group are people who can cope with the voices and are called psychic. It is my personal belief that being psychic and being psychotic are the same thing depending upon how you cope with it. Society in general regards people who talk to God as holy. But society in general regards people whom God talks to as insane.”
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Kevin goes on to explain the gift of our madness:
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Manic depression has been called a brilliant madness because of the expansive ideas that psychosis can create. In days of old, people recognized how mental illness can even be a gift. Socrates once declared, “Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.” Plato referred to insanity as: “a divine gift and the source of the chief blessings granted to men.”
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Because, as Larry Frick tells Richard at the end of the interview: “Hope is to the soul what oxygen is to the body.”
Read more at psychcentral.com |
July 16th, 2010Blogging, Facebook, Social Media
Why Are We So Hung Up on Influence?
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Wow.
Suddenly all anyone seems to be talking about in the social media world is influence. Tools like Klout, a system that uses some sort of complex calculation to say how influential you are on Twitter, are rising to popularity.
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| Sure. I looked at my Klout score. It’s 53. I have no idea what that means. I don’t really care, either. |
| people are confusing “influence” with “popularity” |
| Just because you got 500 reads on your post doesn’t mean you’re going to get 500 reads every day from here on in. |
| The idea is, it’s not about targeting your stuff to people who are influential. It’s about targeting your stuff to people who are interested. It’s not about how many people see what you’ve done – it’s about WHO sees it. |
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How about we focus on building up our own communities, with our own people, and our own set of influencers who are actually influential, instead of just being the ones with the biggest following, or the loudest voice? Yes, it will take time. Yes, it will take work. But ultimately, everyone will be better off, don’t you think?
Read more at www.suzemuse.com |
