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Re: Hyperlocal Has To Be Peer Produced

gregorylent — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:37:11 -0000

yes, i love that. me sitting in bangalore reading something that someone in silicon valley is writing that i know a guy in new york can use... too too sweet ... outside.in will get it i am sure

Re: Hyperlocal Has To Be Peer Produced

gregorylent — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:38:24 -0000

it will fly when it starts to embrace local conversations around local issues, my two rupees worth

Re: My Thinking on YHOO

gregorylent — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:57:11 -0000

a lot of this is analyzing the waves, and missing the ocean ... in this analogy the ocean is the flow of time ... yahoo did its thing, embedded itself as the portal of choice for an internet generation, and time has moved on. i think it is wrong to expect things to live past their sell-by date, which every living entity has ...

it is more productive for society as a whole to shift energy to creation, as opposed to life support

Re: My Thinking on YHOO

gregorylent — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:52:26 -0000

i think they are in maintenance mode ... got 500 million on board, lot of parts are leaking, and plugging em up is taking most of the work week ... three separate smaller companies would be much better

Re: Who will fill Russert's shoes? (Scripting News)

gregorylent — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:53:41 -0000

aaron brown ...

Re: A post a day

gregorylent — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:55:46 -0000

the same situation arises in putting out a daily paper, or a weekly magazine ... and may go a long way in understanding why those mediums seems so stale and formulaic , not worth reading

Re: louisgray.com: Why Disqus Is Winning the Web Comment Battles, and What's Next

gregorylent — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:55:15 -0000

you can even talk to yourself

Re: Steve Gilmor Translated: The Master In Seques Returns

gregorylent — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:33:29 -0000

steve gillmor is fabulous when used as the vocal tracks against a drum machine, it is all in beats, sometimes rhymes, the thought flow is like stepping stones on a rugged hillside .... it is a kind of free association that beat poets and street rappers are familiar with .... i always read him out loud, standing up, jooving a little bit

Re: QMeme Day One

gregorylent — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:52:15 -0000

this is cool territory we, you, are entering, personalized meme-trackers ... much like the real world, where we tend to see the world we want to see, and with the same downside, living in a box of our own making, as opposed to a larger reality that we actually wouldn't know how to create ourselves, and need the bump of the unknown and unexpected to jostle us into a larger understanding.....

it is amazing how much technology serves to keep our psychosis in place :)

Re: Comments Can Be Blog Posts

gregorylent — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:04:33 -0000

and i would use my disqus avatar, but the verify my post button seems to be asleep

Re: Comments Can Be Blog Posts

gregorylent — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:05:18 -0000

and doesn't go under the reply that has been clicked

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:09:54 -0000

as you say blogging may change, heck everything changes all the time ... but conversing wont stop, the tools to enable it to happen more fluidly will continue to develop ... and the requirements to be smart and engaging will remain ...

what will come is this, just like you can walk into a coffee shop and join any conversation at any table, this will happen upon going to a single website ... mine, maybe, if i can just get teh software going...

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:15:25 -0000

this should be a separate, and deep, conversation ... values win in the end because they are based on the way nature works, and the way consciousness works ... when foolishness prevails, suffering grows ... in india it is called dharma, and with that concept it is easy to see the ridiculousness of much of modern american life ..... economists might say it is not sustainable, and that is the least of it

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:56:36 -0000

technology has enabled banality ... but "pseudo-modernism" is an unfortunate label and indicates that the author cannot see beyond the past

so many shifts are going on in this time, all of them having to do with creation of a greater understanding of what value is, of what a human being is, of what life on earth is

one would be that we are shifting from quantitative to qualitative valuations, and it is not surprising that those who don't get this, or don't understand this, are clutching on to metrics, monetization, and the commodification of experience ... they are to be ignored, and life is ignoring them

cause and effect are not what they seem

the author of that paper is in some ways exactly what he is bemoaning, offering nothing in terms of progress, only giving a retro view

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:00:36 -0000

the conversation is (ok, will be) the blog

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:41:35 -0000

what you are saying could be interpreted (at least by me :) ) as an indication of group consciousness being seen in the world, simply, a larger awareness is replacing a narrower one, and it is all quite natural .... it does make a few commercial interests squirm though....

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:46:16 -0000

nice comments, and good to recognize that seeming realities are only concepts ... interaction is what humans do, and of course continues ... did you ever read jack vance? he has a story where each member of the culture takes turns in every different role, and in some ways we are blurring the lines between audience and participator, which is way cool ...

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:21:34 -0000

yes, thought you clicked the wrong reply, though sometimes disqus has a mind of its own...

agree with your "enables x" ... i like the way vo nguyen giap said it in 1967, about the west, "ah, your computers serve only to render your ignorance more efficiently"

the thing disappointing for me about kirby, he seems to have no context within which to place his understanding, and no idea what any of it implies about human beings .... other than that, he is wonderfully articulate ... by the way, your blog has some interesting topics as well

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:31:46 -0000

nice comments, and thanks for the impetus for this discussion ....

what indian villages have is a whole lot of gossip, a kind of geographical omniscience, everyone knows everything that is happening everywhere, and everybody is involved in everything, pretty much .... cannot get more 2.0 than that!

one could say that what we are doing with tech is what humans have already always been doing, for better or worse ... the means are developing, the scale is expanding, but the village well is still where it is at, as far as real life goes. friendfeed is only a really rough approximation

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:53:59 -0000

no, i am amazingly, irrationally (such a limiting pov, rationality) optimistic ... i think the whole flow is leading to a wider/vaster/deeper unfoldment of human awareness/potential/possibility ..... and that when it is "found", one realizes it was always there/here/around

life is an unfoldment, consciousness can already do all that tech is trying to manifest externally, realizing one's connection to all is the whole story of being born, and that when one does, there is no such thing as lowest common denominator

but just try to get funding for such a view!! lol

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:18:35 -0000

"Look: No rules. No discipline. No authoritative anything. No conclusions. No learnings. NO VALUE"

conclusion: we need a dictator in order to have value?

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:22:17 -0000

if i understand the essence of your posts, you are wishing to improve human character, and are wondering if technology can do that?

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:41:35 -0000

very well written roblong

you note .... "And that's a new form of something. Deeper than entertainment. The idea of being able to be connected to hundreds of thousands or even millions of people around the planet is staggering (on the web) and terrifying (in an epidemiological sense)." ....

this connection you refer to is simply the mass recognition of what previously only mystics pointed out, that there is only "one thing" and we are all a part of it, only one consciousness, all of our minds are based in that.

they referred to understanding this as "knowing that by which all things are known"

it is not only a way of being with people, it is a way of being yourself, who you really are, and have always been

thanks for your writing, will look at your site

Re: I love this Man

gregorylent — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:33:33 -0000

he's pretty cool, but what is with the interviewer, and the editing? pretty bad, and interferes with the interview

Re: What Comes After Post Modernism?

gregorylent — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:45:20 -0000

other cultures would say, go with your strengths, forget developing many areas. other peoploe have those covered