DISQUS

We've certainly been trained to focus on the gap. It assumes someone somewhere had defined what should be.

To give that up is what is important. To realise the future is not knowable. We create it and the only thing we can do is to concentrate on taking with us what is worth taking with us.

BTW not all things pass. We shouldn't say that. We are dismissing the unpleasant facts that are reality for many people. The point is that if something won't pass, then it is part of life and we must live with it but not let it constrain our choices more than need be.

Gwendolyn Broooks
Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.

Good to be reminded. With spring upon us, I've been thinking that thinking under abundance is so different from thinking under scarcity.

We've been brought up to stress all thing things we must do today, to worry about wasting time, etc.

I had been thinking about choosing the tasks that satisfices - much as I learned to do when I was travelling - just go into the first restaurant with locals on it and point to something lots of people seem to be eating.

What you suggest is a little more complicated but less deflating. It invokes a little snigger of glee that I don't like but a matrix of impact and cost - I use stickies on the card that backs a writing pad anyway - The pick any task that is easy to do and has a large impact.

Here's another one. I was suprised to see Grace Mugabe - middle left. I would be very surprised if she is NOT on the USA list of Zimbabwean's sanctioned by Zimbabwe.

http://www.dazzleyellowpages.com/local-white-pa...

Transparency used to be a requirement of all public orgs. I once lived in a place where public servants salaries were published - why - because if you offered more credit to them than they could afford, that was tantamout to corruption.

The trouble with transparency is 'emperor's clothes' I think. Orgs aren't offering the stability and platform for a career that they once did. I am coming to believe that everyone should just be self-employed. They would be better off considering themselves as a going-concern and planning that way from the age of 14.

Thanks for the original wording - that is useful.

What do you think of Magpie then?

I gave up on adsense because it repeatedly deliverd exactly the opposite of my blog content. I even blogged for a month on the relationship between the ads and what I was writing!

I'm a Web2.0 enthusiast, but what is the context?

Isn't this the cart before the horse? First, we need to see what the market needs. There will be plenty of jobs not requiring much use of IT and many when no IT might be a blessing. How long since you had a GP who didn't spend 9/10 of an already short consultation playing with the box?

I like your throwaway comment at the end.

"make travel more social and helping self-forming groups may work".

I have been thinking that business should be done on train (let the employment agent have his office there). I talk to people on trains and it is very interesting.

Your comment is deeper. Apply the principles of #So.Me to the trains!

Maybe think "moo" as the link between digital and physical?

I am puzzled by the delay in launching the movement?

Love the clean layout. Love the expression weekend entrepreneur.

Tell me, where is the data stored?

The Guardian recently used an hour of my time asking about social media, published without checking the copy with me, didn't tell me when they published and didn't link to my site. They are many things and many good, but get it they don't!

The old guard still dominate the media in the UK. In the mornings we get traffic from India and the surrounds, then silence until the US wakes us. We still have to work with the papers whose blogs help to stifle the blogosphere. If something is important, the trick is to bombard them with questions until the 'community managers' notice and tell the journalists. Then they pick up the phone and using their powerful brand names ask the question we all want asked.

So it works in the the old empire!

Cheers for your optimism! Have a winning weekend.

Cool by line. I think I agree.

And who says this is a disaster? I am yet to be convinced. There is so much waste. First concentrate on what has to be done that is genuinely useful to someone, then say if there is a problem.

I am so optimistic about the current situation that I am going to take out movies about the Great Depression to try to scare myself.

Why am I optimistic?

We all watched the build up to the financial crash knowing full well the banking ethos of the last 10 - 20 years was cynical if not plain dodgy. But while it brought home profits, we were shouted down. Most of us are relieved if not downright happy to see the emperor's clothes called.

Will life be so bad for the next ten years? Possibly - I am looking around for a clear projection of what is to come.

It is also a time for clearing out the clutter and building businesses we are proud to belong to. Am I too too naive?

Interesting analysis. My understanding is that the breakdown is largely due to two things

a) cheap teaser rates that shoot up later in ways not obvious when you sign up

b) the onselling of the mortgages in a way sometimes 30x over so no one is working with the borrower anymore.

I've got the link to Harvard profs on my blog. 1:36hours but good.

As a practical matter, your page rank improves if you link externally.

And I read somewhere (where?) that comments reduce your pagerank so you should move some popular posts to pages - don't understand that fully.

As far a I figure it, outgoing links give you pagerank and your comments on other blogs give you traffic.

Does that make sense?

And of course social media develops as we use it - so it is affected by what we learn.

It is almost as if our foot becomes real because we noticed it!

I watched an Alan Watts YouTube yesterday. Meaningful or was it meaningless life? Essential watching for parents, I think.

I intuit the difference between Obama and McCain's campaigns but I am not sure I could explain it simply to non-media people - to McCain, for example.

I understand that McCain's strategy might be considered an offense now in Europe. The link is i a comment here
http://socialmediamafia.com/2008/08/what-do-you...

some keen phrases - will retweet them in Brit twitterville

This is brilliant. I can think of a lot of uses. Tourists, obviously. Students arriving from abroad. New employees in strange cities.

Brill. How much are they I wonder?

There may be different cultural assumptions at play?

The few times I have watched it, it seems out and out gossip.

A news crew does not seem to have been working during the night. All hell could have broken loose from SF via down under, Asia, East Europe and we won't hear about it till noon.

I've given up on TV. What can you do at that time in the morning when you priority is a baby? Talking books? Downloads of lectures from American universities? TED talks?

3 hours download is more like it.

Interesting business, the use of public space.

Five C's is good - and the story about your mother-in-law.

Old story about computers and work. Don't design work so that the computer is doing it and the worker is watching the computer. Make sure the computer is helping the worker.

With social media, design the system so the media supports the social and amplifies it. If you take out the human interaction, people get antsy.

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