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  • gregory  jack, i am embarrassed for my country to read your post... you think george sounds any different from over here?
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    •   Appeasement
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  • gregory  they are already in the modern world, they go skiing, have tech startups, fly around the world, go on holidays, study in other countries, they do have a far greater emotional maturity than most americans, from what i encounter in meeting them in asia, and i wonder why american media never shows pictures of the shopping malls and clubs and rock bands that are there .... think maybe a demonizing process is underway? they are "just like us", though we may beat them in the bellicose idiot leader category
  • • 7 hours ago
    •   Appeasement
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  • gregory  one trend not mentioned, migration of labor .... another, social unrest between haves and have nots .... another completely restructuring of the global finance system and the quantification of profit, to include social costs .... and what are all those handheld devices going to be commnunicating? the elements of what i call the experience economy ....
  • • 1 day ago
    •   Looking Forward
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  • gregory  didn't open it
  • • 2 days ago
    •   Disqus and Seesmic Pair Up For Video Comments
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  • gregory  but would you want to live in one of their senior housing communities?
  • • 5 days ago
    •   Ventas, Inc (VTR) on Wallstrip…’I see Locked Up Old People’
    •   Howard Lindzon
  •   howardlindzon  Depends...get it
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  • gregory  i am in india, on a usb modem, maybe 7KBps, and youtube, twitter, they are but dreams, even though i crave being plugged in to the leading edge of the global zeitgeist.... one needs a lot of patience in most of this world, and i am in short supply
  • • 5 days ago
    •   Would I want to be Robert Scoble?
    •   shawn farner
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  • gregory  is "arriving this week" part of dell's problem? i buy my laptops at costco, walk in, walk out, deleting crapware all in about half an hour.. never bought from dell, but am wondering about the instant gratification advantage in the consumer market
  • • 5 days ago
    •   Is Dell Dead?…Well Yes!
    •   Howard Lindzon
  •   howardlindzon  I wanted to buy one right away but every laptop has vista
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  • gregory  loss, or certainly the redefinition, of britishness is the obvious one .... the global flow is the transformation of identity, who you think you are... this is painful for many cultures, religions, regions .... and unfortunately what is replacing it is often far less human, loving, caring, coordinated with seasons and geography than what once was .... but minds free of space and time constraints can fly in ways unimaginable up til now ....
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Geographic Balancing
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  • gregory  i guarantee you will have many moments where you cannot tell what country you are in
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Geographic Balancing
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  • gregory  to be mourned about, the death of the exotic
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Geographic Balancing
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  • gregory  hey, combine it with the feds real id, meet up with the open id guys, just sign in once with your ssn, government is happy, network all you want, all conversations are online with a hell of a long tail, just like being omniscient, the ultimate spyware
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Discussing Disqus
    •   Howard Lindzon
  •   howardlindzon  I like it
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  • gregory  what i would really LOVE is a BIG argument about the question, does consciousness come from the meat? or does the meat come from consciousness? this guy, www.theness.com/neurologicablog, clearly believes the former, mystics, the latter the reductionist materialist mechanistic view is held pretty tightly, but, sheesh... qualia? i agree it is a very interesting field, but consciousness will win in the end
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Meme Reservoir
    •   CarlosBuitelaar.com
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  • gregory  this has been a big "click" for me... the blog is the conversation... fabulous, thanks, got lots to do now
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Targeting disqus
    •   CarlosBuitelaar.com
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  • gregory  israel ... living in india for the past 15 years has made me incredibly pro-palestinian .... 60 is a good age to figure some stuff out and finally grow up ...
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Happy Birthday Israel
    •   Howard Lindzon
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  • gregory  back in south india after seven weeks in s.e asia, and the wealth creation in these cultures is astounding, especially if you have visited them often over the last few decades .... it is so amazing, that i start to wonder, what is wealth really? it is almost something magic the best comment i heard about the last century is not about wealth, or westernization, it is about the introduction of a new concept in the world, the concept of individual self-fulfillment, an entirely new thing on this planet....
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Geographic Balancing
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  • gregory  wow, just had a science fiction moment, a story of a guy completely blocked from any sort of digital mention.... invisible, doesn't exist.. hmm
  • • 1 week ago
    •   louisgray.com: Content Filters Proving Evasive for RSS, Social Media Sites
    •   louisgray
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  • gregory  as the units of production become smaller, every site would be a business advertising only itself... to itself.
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Triangulating For Insight
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  • gregory  malcolm gladwell belongs in Reader's Digest, would be a bit of a stoop
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Triangulating For Insight
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  • gregory  and not a word about unsustainable system structure, so the house of cards theory due to unquantifiable debt structures is false? or the ponzi game continues? from over here in asia it looks slightly less rosy, but maybe the idea of value is different
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Twittering A Hedge Fund Event
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  • gregory  the incrementalism meme, and impatience with it, is not germane to anything, except maybe somebody's marketing usp... what we are really modeling in this tech world is consciousness, its unencumbered range, and the way it functions .... yogis figured out this a long time ago, internally, the western tech thing is merely externalizing it
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Triangulating For Insight
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  • gregory  slightly off your topic, but another very difficult thing to do is ..... listening to your own self ..... cutting through expectations, assumptions, ego, and getting into that still small quiet place, not easy at the best of times, very difficult in the pressured world of business, or, busy-ness
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard - Continuations
    •   Continuations
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  • gregory  i used to be the same about dates, would like the woman, but would never ask her out... which is why i went to the chinese orchestra at the esplanade in singapore tonight by myself.... oh well .... it was great, by the way
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   Ask For The Order
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  • gregory  for a guy with a job, your visibility and conversationality are amazing... pretty smart too
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   louisgray.com: More Noise About Twitter Noise
    •   louisgray
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  • gregory  the question is, can business models constructed in times of opacity and proprietary information and hierarchical organization survive the transparency and shared information and horizontal organization that enterprise social networking will result in i think the isolated business organization will give way to the community just because it is not as powerful, but will fight it, unsuccessfully open trumps closed, good trumps evil, the omni-present trumps isolated..... sooner or later
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   Is "Social Enterprise Software" An Oxymoron?
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  •   Ranjit Mathoda  Open doesn't always trump closed: http://mathoda.com/archives/195
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  • gregory  i will use disqus just because of ths story
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   louisgray.com: Disqus' Excellent Customer Service Enables Comments Integration
    •   louisgray
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  • gregory  it is still like peering through holes in a fence at a construction site, or trying to drive while looking through a telescope still a lot of room for "wholeness of vision" to be enabled, enterprise-wise and roi on the time spent, yikes, possibly less than we might think, unless one is in the profession
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   louisgray.com: My Social Media Consumption Workflow
    •   louisgray
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  • gregory  what a silly concept,. ideas are eternal
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   Geez, Liz…I’m not 50 until August
    •   odd time signatures
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  • gregory  so much for my new widget company... i mean, i knew they were just useless clutter and time-wasters, but i was hoping my customers wouldn't........
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   Cleaning House
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  • gregory  www.techcrunch.com has been using them for a few days.... never have clicked on one, don't want to wait for it to load, or to be limited by someone's thinking and speaking speed, i can skim more quickly, ideas are primarily words, though if it is an abstract image as comment, that could be cool, off in the future i think
  • • 3 weeks ago
    •   Video Comments…It’s a Winner
    •   Howard Lindzon
  •   howardlindzon  Sounds like i will just stay with disques for now
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  • gregory  funks are fine, the fields need to lie fallow.... but..... i tried to post this on the big set of comments, it didn't register.... meditation meditation meditation... i don't know how people can live without it.... and anything that opens one to the subtle energies, tai chi, chigung, etc.... changing the horizontal is a bit of a help, but going vertical transcends all the limits, changes all the channels, best vacation there is, daily, too
  • • 3 weeks ago
    •   Funkalimination
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  • gregory  i knew the 70's were coming back....
  • • 3 weeks ago
    •   SpirtualGangster.com…Sneak Peak
    •   Howard Lindzon
  •   howardlindzon  Woooot
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  • gregory  can i get rid of the dumb comments i have made in the past, or the ones in different arenas, that is, informal playful stuff in one context, vs. business-like in another? when i check people out on disqus, it is all lumped together, and some don't look so smart.... so, can i?
  • • 3 weeks ago
    •   Connecting Conversations with Disqus and Plaxo
    •   Disqus
  •   B42  I deleted all my test comments yesterday just by clicking the admin button on my dashboard, not only does a remove option come up but the email and ip address of the commenter are there as well. Not sure about deleting in the 'different arenas' yet as I'm still new to it all.
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  • gregory  yeah, it will stop, a little after 2012 ... psychics have been talking about this time for thirty years, futurists for about fifteen, analysts for about three, and the street still hasn't figured it out
  • • 3 weeks ago
    •   Oil…Will It Ever Stop?
    •   Howard Lindzon
  •   howardlindzon  thx gregory - I think you may be right, but its getting closer to the end here. something has to give
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  • gregory  not only ants.. intuition is one way, often very reliable... even more woo woo, faith and trust, the confidence to know that you are getting what you need when you need it, seems to work like gravity to bring the needed stuff to the mind on time
  • • 3 weeks ago
    •   A Lot Has Changed In A Century, But Not Everything
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  • gregory  like watching the weatherman, cannot tell any difference
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Frontier (FRO) on Wallstrip…Runaway Trends Continue..Oil, Metals, Agriculture…Where they Stop NOBODY KNows
    •   Howard Lindzon
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  • gregory  thag loaning his club to thorg
  • • 1 month ago
    •   General Georges Doriot
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  • gregory  like shopping at whole foods, i am buying an identity if i buy a hybird
  • • 1 month ago
    •   ‘H’ is for Hybrid… and Hype!
    •   Howard Lindzon
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  • gregory  i would drop the 8 years thing, go for some new blood
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Does This Describe You? (continued)
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  • gregory  cool, unless one is on dialup in south india (or a lot of other places, i am sure) you tube doesn't function
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Video Day On AVC
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  •   vruz  well it's really hard to support the entire world, I believe. besides, if the vast majority is able to access the content, should they be limited to a minimum (*VERY* minimum) common denominator ? annotating videos with text, subtitling and making the text available as html would be the ideal, but that may be too much to ask from a one-man show don't you think ? are there any video startups doing something like that for collaborative video annotation ? that could be one possible solution
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  • gregory  music, from the time of the troubadors, was free. it will be again, as the recording/distribution medium trends to transparency. artists are fine, it is the non artists who need them, not the other way around. money is not the motivator for doing art, it is something in the spirit. distribution companies were allowed to ride on artists as long as they controlled the medium, that time is over. enjoy the music, it will actually be better, the more individualized it becomes,
  • • 1 month ago
    •   What is art worth — and how do we pay?
    •   Mathew's comments
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  • gregory  ha, having long been in india on unbelievably slow dial up, i have been catching up with your world, and it onloy took a couple of months to figure out that so much of the buzz isn't necessary to know... but the nuggets are... you just need a good filter and just like time can be far more valuable than money, looking at the sky can give a lot more information than your screen.... enjoy the break
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Refocusing The Blog
    •   Webomatica
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  • gregory  for 600 millilon, i am sure the guys counting ketchup bottles in the local grocery store at night could have scaled right on up there
  • • 1 month ago
    •   This is Nuts
    •   Union Square Ventures
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  • gregory  not being able to measure audiences is yet another reason why advertising as a revenue source for online enterprises will become increasingly iffy ... alternatively, that would be a good niche for a new business
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Delicious
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  • gregory  "value" and "cash" are almost divorced; that in some ways is the essence of the current scenario
  • • 1 month ago
    •   We Need A New Path To Liquidity
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  • gregory  fabulous concept
  • • 1 month ago
    •   We Need A New Path To Liquidity
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  • gregory  innovation will NOT stop .... M&A has been a pyramid scheme .... private liquidity is just a refinement .... services cannot exist on ads ..... free won't go away .... conclusion is obvious
  • • 1 month ago
    •   We Need A New Path To Liquidity
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  • gregory  glad you noticed the phbradley comment... i just chased after his link to find out who he is ... i liked the comment a lot bioanalogy is a great term... the same can be said using "consciousness analogy",... technology (the brain too, but that is another subject) is the out-picturing of what consciousness can already do (see patanjili's yoga sutras, third chapter, on the powers of consciousness, it's short) .... and when we use the nature and structure of the brain, or of consciousness, to analyze human systems, it becomes easier to see what is coming i think umair was just born knowing this stuff, probably a yogi in his last lifetime, the rest of us need to do some meditation
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Can The Y Combinator Idea Turn Into A Movement?
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  •   fredwilson  Blogging, reading blogs like umairs, and listening to people powered radio at the same time is my meditation
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  • gregory  profit will come from what you give, not from what you get ... it is the way love works ... the rise of the new way is simply a closer external, organizational, approximation to the internal structures of consciousness, mediums becoming more transparent, more fluid, more invisible qualities of character will be far more crucial, immediate... structures have always been an effect, not a cause... this will continue of course ... new structures will arise out of higher consciousness is the short way to say it
  • • 1 month ago
    •   The Declining Power Of The Firm
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  • gregory  you have a nice blog and an interesting set of interests
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Music, Technology, Art, Economy
    •   Ethan Bauley Dot Com
  •   EthanBauley  thanks, gregory... i've really enjoyed your comments over at bubblegen. would love to check out more of your stuff...what are you working on? are you an artist? On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Disqus
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  • gregory  having been doing nothing for fifteen years in south india, except for a bit of art and a lot of meditation, i got what i wanted from down time, and am ready to enter the stream again, for, let's say, fifteen years of flat out.... should be easy, just let it flow
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Working On Vacation
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  • gregory  as a top ten example, i vote for starbucks, after howard shultz took control
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Inevitable? - Fred Wilson Dot VC
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  • gregory  should work like the mind works at a party, listen to who i want, and block out the rest, then shift to another group... hard, eh? i don't want to have to do anything more than choose which (set of feeds) party i am going to that night, and have the rest be pure discovery maybe in about xx years
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do
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  • gregory  my first take, something like a facebook feeling, they are really interested in themselves, monetization of page views is the number one priortiy, their sole motivation, .... rather than creating something for people, they are creating something for themselves.... the difference is subtle, profit is of course good, i just dont like to patronize businesses that are out for themselves as a first priority, and that is what this feels like at first go enrgy follows intention, is the principle
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Disqus Funding
    •   Howard Lindzon
  •   bijan  disqus rules. love those guys and their software.
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  • gregory  the scale thing... replying to dailykos or cnn or anything big... total waste of time smaller blogs, say techcrunch on down, dialogue can happen and if disqus is one of those things designed to give the masses a(n imaginary) "voice", (to build page views for the purpose of making money) forget about it... no one likes to be patronized, or used as fodder
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Disqus
    •   Union Square Ventures
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  • gregory  boring
  • • 2 months ago
    •   Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy
    •   Mathew's comments
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  • gregory  never have read the la times online.... eff the wall
  • • 3 months ago
    •   Media: Still grasping for a clue
    •   Mathew's comments
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  • gregory  not that fascinating, and my s**t detector goes off sometimes around digg, like big brother has a hand in there somewhere
  • • 3 months ago
    •   Digg: A social media Petri dish
    •   Mathew's comments
  •   mathewi  It's all part of the show, Greg :-)
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  • gregory  but this is the future... more cool apps racing with bandwidth and server capacity and that is why the economist predicted that the web would slow down in 2008 get used to it
  • • 4 months ago
    •   Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet
    •   Mathew's comments
  •   ianbetteridge  If by "cool", you mean "badly written"... yeah. Twitter is not great tech, unfortunately, and it simply won't scale much further - which is one of the reasons that Google didn't buy it.
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  • gregory  good analysis of the contest... exactly like nfl today on espn, or wherever it is.... what about the issues?
  • • 5 months ago
    •   The Two Words That Strike Fear Into The GOP
    •   Captain's Quarters Comments
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  • gregory  twit-chat, is what i call it, comes from chit-chat
  • • 5 months ago
    •   Social Blogging
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  • gregory  very nice summary, very nice, i could reply to each of your points and to the advice network comment, the collapse of virtual and real... indeed, and that is how a mystic sees things, no difference between inner and outer.... and with technology just being an out-picturing of what consciousness can already do, the evolution of tech is getting us to where we already are, inwardly..... patanjili has this covered quite well in the yoga sutras...
  • • 6 months ago
    •   The State Of The Web
    •   How To Split An Atom
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  • gregory  wow, i like that... and that is exactly how a mystic views reality already, just information, not real.... the "external" world of this "process" by which advertising is diappearing is just a more gross level of what already is.... an out-picturing of consciousness, if you will.... and if you understand consciousness, you know dave is right, it aint a theory
  • • 6 months ago
    •   Why Google launched OpenSocial (Scripting News)
    •   Scripting News
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