CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-20 16:15:46 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Making a Difference

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."
-- +Larry Page 

2013-05-20 15:49:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Here's why Vic couldn't sleep last night!  A fresh new Google+ Android build that incorporates all of last week's goodness... and more.   Enjoy.

#googleplusupdate

2013-05-20 14:27:45 (6 comments, 5 reshares, 23 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Multitasking Neurons

"A conversation is an emergent property bridging the gap between mindfulness and effective collective action."
-- +John Kellden 

“We started noticing early on that there are a whole bunch of neurons in the prefrontal cortex that can’t be classified in the traditional way of one message per neuron.”
-- Earl Miller, MIT

Multitasking neurons when learning new behavior
In a paper appearing in Nature on May 19, Miller and colleagues at Columbia University report that these neurons are essential for complex cognitive tasks, such as learning new behavior.
http://www.healthcanal.com/brain-nerves/38795-complex-brain-function-depends-on-flexibility.html

via +Mani Saint Victor
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110286773978323039098/posts/ixbdZZvA3E6

Image source:http... more »

2013-05-20 11:47:08 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 22 +1s)

Introducing The Fantastic Four: The J Edition, take two

"In a network, the best place to store knowledge is in other people."
-- John Kellden

+James Lewis Knowmad. I like machine intelligence, augmented reality, apples and potatoes, and zombie apocalypse films.

+James O'Sullivan Helping build better places to work.
I believe that we're currently standing at a crossroads. The 20th century ways of doing business are failing us due to the rapid pace of innovation. Companies are dying out quicker only to be replaced by others. Business disruption is the new norm.

+Jan Friman Cultural Chameleon, Creative Samurai & Visual Ninja

+Jane Shevtsov I love ecology, networks, geography, and anything that makes me see the world a little differently.

2013-05-20 10:25:40 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Good Morning!

"...and the food you fed my children, is the cause of that ill disease."
-- Richie Havens

2013-05-20 09:06:17 (4 comments, 8 reshares, 23 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Adopt, Exapt, Adapt

"Noticing serendipities enables us to navigate between linear and non-linear time."
-- +John Kellden

+ConversationLab Opportunity Mindset Tea House Sequence:

Adoption: Social Presence, Social Learning
1. Gather
Around conversations, anecdotes (eg G+ posts), stories and narratives.

2. Diverge
Play, participate, probe(McLuhan), Fork(GitHub)

Exaptation: Playfulness, Dance, Performance, Scenius
3. Emerge
Serendipities, synchronicities, Black Swans(Taleb)

"Our future society is emerging out of anchoring and embodying our digital weightless selves into our local communities."
-- John Kellden

Adaptation: Technology, Behavior, Structural Change
4. Converge
Aligning vectors, emergent momentum,... more »

2013-05-19 19:33:36 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al

via +Vicky Gallardo & +Susan Stone 

2013-05-19 18:22:46 (3 comments, 6 reshares, 18 +1s)

Our Future Society: Interdependence

"Social emerges out of interaction, individual agency, inference, information, insights & interdependence."
-- John Kellden

Work is a subset of Play
"The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile."
-- Alvin Toffler

Image source: Moebius... more »

2013-05-19 17:36:48 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Introducing The Fantastic Four: The J Edition, take one

We're pretty much covered if we listen well to these four:
Presence, Learning, Water, Food

+Jack C Crawford How are you today? Feeling good?  Feeling down? Excellent! You came to the right place.  Living in this very moment.

+Jacob Taylor Je suis une intelligence artificielle suffisamment avancée. My superpower is learning.

+Jacqueline Chan Center for Global Safe Water - A scientist at heart and an artist by practice. In pursuit of increasing resiliency of human civilizations through sustainable development and collective conscientiousness.

+Jake Croston Author of the Saucy Pig Cookbook, Culinary Instructor at Chefhangout.com


"As the smallest necessary drop of individual intention touches the sea of human unfolding, it then travels back up through the centerch... more »

2013-05-19 17:09:59 (5 comments, 6 reshares, 9 +1s)

Social: Community

+Otto Hunt :
"This is a long but thought-provoking piece on what loneliness is and what it isn't, and why we should care:"

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115212797133013956498/posts/QtaDAwdxMgf

2013-05-19 16:51:20 (0 comments, 10 reshares, 22 +1s)

Gaia: Grinning Monkey Orchids

ht +zeezee zee
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103312044051921933574/posts/8TLV6FjSru8

2013-05-19 15:32:49 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Play: Play is Resilience

"You don't play to improve resilience. Play is the resilience."
-- John Kellden

"Work is a subset of play is a subset of process is a subset of life."
-- John Kellden

"The opposite of play is not work. The opposite of play is depression."
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is a larger solution space
"In a world filled with challenges and wicked problems, directed play is a great way to create a slightly larger solution space in which resolving the challenges becomes great fun."
-- John Kellden riffing on:

A More Resilient Species
"In our own world filled with challenges ranging from cyber-warfare to infrastructure failure, could self-directed play be the best way to prepare ourselves to face them?"
-- Linda Stonemore »

2013-05-19 15:30:55 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Play: Play is Resilience

"You don't play to improve resilience. Play is the resilience."
-- +John Kellden

"Work is a subset of play is a subset of process is a subset of life."
-- +John Kellden 

"The opposite of play is not work. The opposite of play is depression."
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is a larger solution space
"In a world filled with challenges and wicked problems, directed play is a great way to create a slightly larger solution space in which resolving the challenges becomes great fun."
-- +John Kellden riffing on:

A More Resilient Species
"In our own world filled with challenges ranging from cyber-warfare to infrastructure failure, could self-directed play be the best way to prepare ourselves to face them?"
-- Linda Stonemore »

2013-05-19 15:00:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Deliberate Play and Deliberate Practice

"If you only play for improvement, you’ll burn out. You must play for pleasure as well as improvement."
-- Gary McPherson
http://timtopham.com/2011/11/13/deliberate-play-v-deliberate-practice/

Deliberate Practice: How to Develop Expertise
"Anyone who has ever conscientiously taken on the challenge of learning a skill – from playing a musical instrument to speaking a foreign language to simply improving one’s penmanship – understands the importance of practice.

As a neuroscientist, practice fascinates me because it is all about establishing pathways in the brain. The ability of the brain to form and re-form routes for specific thought patterns, and for those routes to become more deeply ingrained the more we exercise those thought patterns, makes it possible for usto lear... more »

2013-05-19 14:54:05 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

Learning: Deliberate Practice

Deliberate Practice: How to Develop Expertise
"Anyone who has ever conscientiously taken on the challenge of learning a skill – from playing a musical instrument to speaking a foreign language to simply improving one’s penmanship – understands the importance of practice.

As a neuroscientist, practice fascinates me because it is all about establishing pathways in the brain. The ability of the brain to form and re-form routes for specific thought patterns, and for those routes to become more deeply ingrained the more we exercise those thought patterns, makes it possible for us to learn and refine a multitude of wonderful skills throughout our lives."
-- Bill Jenkins, Ph.D
http://www.scilearn.com/blog/deliberate-practice-develops-expertise.php

cc +Mani Saint Victor +Craig Calvert 

2013-05-19 13:51:09 (15 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

Resources: Neuroscience FTWWW

"Taming the Loki that is cultural neuroscience."
-- +Mani Saint Victor

Here I will curate select parts of +Mani Saint Victor's brilliance and groundbreaking finds, towards gathering a body of knowledge relevant for conversations about things that matter and our brains as massively multiplayer complex responsive processes.

Including but not limited to: empathy, affect, biosemiotics and then some. I will most probably return and tweak this very text as I learn more how to perform abductive sensemaking through grok'ing the material.

Needless to say, if others have gems and insights related to neuroscience, you are all more than welcome to plunk down a link, article or somesuch in a comment.

FTWWW: For The Win-Win-Win.

Polyvagal Theory
"Until a person feels safe the... more »

2013-05-19 12:58:47 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 18 +1s)

Social Business Design: Successful Implementation

"Social business is organizing arising out of successful implementing of interaction, individual agency, inference, information, insights & interdependence."
-- +John Kellden 

+ConversationLab  Performance Tea House Sequence:
Task, Learning, Generative Assessment
The deliverables out of the sequence: Story, Flow, Play and Performance. This requires dialog and interactivity in your network and with your stakeholders with regards to opportunities offered and tasks selected.

The Shu Ha Ri of St. Francis of Assisi:
1. Hands
2. Hands and Head
3. Hands, Head and Heart

2013-05-19 12:44:16 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Automatic for the People: Petabyte Patterning

"Google is leverage. Through Google+, we co-evolve relevance."
-- +John Kellden

+ConversationLab Social Innovation Tea House Sequence:
Prototype, Gather, Diverge, Rediscover, Realign

Big Data and Relevant Heuristics
"Instead Google operates a very large [petabytes] dataset of observations which show that for any given spelling of a word, x number of people say "yes" when asked if they meant to spell word "y." Google's spelling engine consists entirely of these datapoints, rather than any notion of what correct English spelling is. That is why the same system can correct spelling in any language."
-- +Kevin Kelly
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

Curiosity to remain relevant
"To get... more »

2013-05-19 11:05:00 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 13 +1s)

Collaborative Sensemaking: People

"In a network, the best place to store knowledge is in other people."
-- +John Kellden

Networks augmenting our realities
"To be able to connect with your brain in a way that disperses notions of self-delusion."
-- +David Amerland
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115620878851836664537/posts/YHAfB7e3a47

Networks enabling our rediscovering community
"All companies, governments, educational establishments and municipals will evolve communities as extensions to their brand and wider reach of their intention and purpose."
-- +Thomas Power
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114149296801704936672/posts/N7NkhEVj68K

Networks catalyzing our serendipities
"Serendipity is the emerging, bridging and transforming properties between static and dynamic... more »

2013-05-19 09:05:52 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

Social Business Design: The Village Square

"Social platforms can be turned into anything we want."
-- +John Kellden 

Gossip or Ashram? Why not both?
From where I sit, social platforms can be turned into anything we want. They can be village squares, filled with hustle and bustle and gossip, they can be Viennese Cafés, and they can be ashrams.

What color your archetype?
They also serve many different functions, PLE: personal learning environments, personal brand building platforms, tribe gatherings, booths for flogging our products and services.

The elusive, confusing charm of our Social Era
They are also impacting our traditional  institutions as they adapt to an increasingly connected world.

Shared Purpose: Cocreation of Value
Once we understand how to use the platforms, we canev... more »

2013-05-18 15:29:49 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Google Glass - the real reason I am so excited. (BLOG with VIDEOS)
Could Google Glass move us further into sci-fi territories of 'think to search', telepathic machines and the whole world connecting in 'new ways'? Read my blog to find out more...
#googleglass  

2013-05-18 13:47:56 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Automatic for the People: Patterns

+ConversationLab Narrative Tea House Sequence:
Contradictions, Inversions, Oddities, Coincidences

"By making these maps interactive we can allow the user to project different slices of the data into this 7-dimensional space and in doing so the user can analyze very complex data landscapes from multiple perspectives. If we make manipulating the data in the multi-dimensional space easy, the user can have a conversation with the data.
We are in essence trying to recreate with algorithms and maps the intuitive response that an expert has to the patterns they see on a chessboard. It’s a way for the computer to calculate the shapes, and to let the human do the strategic thinking.
-- +Sean Gourley 

Image source:
quid.com/

2013-05-18 12:48:12 (2 comments, 8 reshares, 14 +1s)

Hack Everything: Culture

"A conversation is an emergent property bridging the gap between mindfulness and effective collective action."
-- +John Kellden 

Use what you've already got
Your story, your ecosystems and whatever lifestyle, practices, rules of thumb and processes you've already got which you can tweak and realign.

+Seb Paquet :
Observe, Find the crack, Make art openly, Find the others, Catalyze, Evolve language, Network, Institutionalize, Iterate

Hack Everything, part 1 - 17
1. Do, Evolve, Reframe
https://plus.google.com/u/0/101010252943098026073/posts/GKiNzqdviEA

2. Organize
https://plus.google.com/u/0/101010252943098026073/posts/Fv8vLQSTZ47

3. Story
https://plus.google.com/101010252943098026073/posts/AHC4kCHtSJ6

4. Workmore »

2013-05-18 12:14:43 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Justice Family pictures are ridiculously cute

2013-05-18 11:55:29 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Introducing The Fantastic Four: The I Edition

+Ian Berry I work with leaders to unleash employee talent in simple yet profound ways.

+Indy Johar Reflect, Connect and Do...
Co-Founder 00:/ Co-founder Hub Westminster, Director of The Hub Association, FRSA, Fellow of Respublica, Associate Demos

+Inma VP Project designer at incubator center for entrepreneurs

"Inma VP is probably one of the best social curators on the web."
-- +John Kellden 

+Ishan Shapiro narrative architect. technographer. emographer. founder at metamaps.cc. writer at spacecollective. liason for the polytopia project, practicing digital parkour.

Image ht +Mani Saint Victor
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110286773978323039098/posts/EZh4nRXfo7t

2013-05-18 11:22:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Language

"They talk about our t-shirts, our body shape and more."
-- +Esther Rudolph
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115497122903070763606/posts/ec4wkfsqGfa

Image source:
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/researcher-decodes-praire-dog-language-discovers-theyve-been-calling-people-fat.html

2013-05-18 11:16:56 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

Social Business Design: Felix the Flying Frog

Once upon a time, there lived a man named Clarence who had a pet frog named Felix. Clarence lived a modestly comfortable existence on what he earned working at the Wal-Mart, but he always dreamed of being rich. "Felix!" he said one day, hit by sudden inspiration, "We're going to be rich! I will teach you to fly!"

http://www.scribd.com/doc/141684206/Felix-the-Flying-Frog-Parable-Modern-Management#document_thumbnail_preview

ht +bronwyn fabrie

#felixtheflyingfrogfriday (yeah, I know, I'm a day off...)

2013-05-18 11:09:14 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Resources: Google Apps

+Steve Waters :
There are two qualifications for Google Apps in Education, Google Analytics and Google Adwords: Qualified Individual and Certified Trainer. The former is gained by a number of rigorous and timed exams. The latter is achieved by an equally rigorous combination of assessment and evidence of the use of Apps in Business. There are less than 10 Certified Trainers in the UK. There is a list available - Google it!  As far as I can tell, there is nothing to prevent someone running a course on, for example, Google Apps in Education provided that you make it clear what Google qualifications you have and that you don't use Google badging anywhere."

Google Apps
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/round-up-google-io-news-for-business.html

ht +Phill Hocking from +Thomas Power 's thread in the LeadORS... more »

2013-05-18 10:54:20 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Reading

"Readers come first, second, and third."
-- Paul Stiff

ht @Delahuntagram  and @keithchtam

2013-05-18 10:42:33 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Star Wars vs Saul Bass

Epic Saul Bass is Epic.

#saulbasssaturday

ht +Jeri Ryan and +Bonnie Burton
https://plus.google.com/u/0/101765416973555767821/posts/DgZ8bgQCGPJ

2013-05-18 10:36:35 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Our Future Society: The Dispossessed

"Definitely definitely The Dispossessed, which never seems to lose its relevance."
-- Paul Krugman

More Science Fiction for Economists
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/more-science-fiction-for-economists-seriously-time-wasting/

ht +Mariusz M. Leś
https://plus.google.com/u/0/101386345674618500615/posts/F8nSqitAQDk

Image source:
http://pinterest.com/pin/142074563217591300/

2013-05-18 10:15:31 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Creative Cognition

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.  Aloud."
-- Coco Chanel

"He's less dumb than the others."
-- Coco Chanel

ht +Nina MJ 

2013-05-18 10:07:52 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

Visual Narrative: Nourishment for Life

"Perception is eighty percent of success."
-- John Kellden

2013-05-18 10:05:00 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

Gaia: Nourishment for Life

"Perception is eighty percent of success."
-- John Kellden

ht +Mikhail Petrovsky
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110242365930888755568/posts/ARdkGkxZqHb

2013-05-18 10:00:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Time Machine: 96 Years Ago

Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie & Leonid Massine

ht +John Hopper
https://plus.google.com/u/0/111039879310674354019/posts/fZXuzeHB7s3

2013-05-18 09:16:42 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Resources: RSS and beyond

From a conversation between +Colin Walker , +Jason K &+John Kellden

+Colin Walker :
http://colinwalker.me.uk/2013/03/how-google-could-save-rss/

Mockups by +David Prieto 
https://plus.google.com/106594741903694904203/posts/F2ez58wyuGQ

Thoughts from Arstechnica:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/03/google-reader-will-rise-again-as-part-of-google/

(will edit and add some of my stuff as well)

Ping: +Thomas Morffew +Paul Simbeck-Hampson 

2013-05-18 09:00:05 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

Automatic for the People: Google Classic

"Please allow 30 days for search results."

via +Alessandro De Broi
https://plus.google.com/u/0/104162363811160960985/posts/K6ti9TR5pB9

2013-05-18 08:52:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Good Morning

It's nearly elevensies here in the Arctic: Here's some #vangoghsaturday to go with your brunch, middle of the night snack or somesuch. ht +RockMelt, Inc. 

2013-05-18 08:40:17 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Capture

"You're right we are rather a dull lot. The white bread of the universe."
-- Mork

Imgur trivia, the below has got 1.2 million views.

#robinwilliamssaturday  

2013-05-18 06:54:56 (17 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

FREEZING LEMONS - WHO KNEW

Amazing frozen lemons. All it is.....is a frozen lemon.

Many professionals in restaurants and eateries are using or consuming the entire lemon and nothing is wasted. How can you use the whole lemon without waste?

Simple.. place the washed lemon in the freezer section of your
refrigerator. Once the lemon is frozen, get your grater, and shred
the whole lemon (no need to peel it) and sprinkle it on top of your
foods.

Sprinkle it to your vegetable salad, ice cream, soup, cereals,
noodles, spaghetti sauce, rice, sushi, fish dishes, whisky.... the
list is endless.

All of the foods will unexpectedly have a wonderful taste, something that you may have never tasted before. Most likely, you only think of lemon juice and vitamin C. Not anymore.

Now that you've learned this lemon secret, you can use... more »

2013-05-18 06:51:26 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

2013-05-18 06:46:31 (28 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Google+ : Communities and Circles

"Communities are where you can find interesting people to Circle."
-- +George Station

"Social emerges out of interaction, individual agency, inference, information, insights & interdependence."
-- +John Kellden 

Google+ Communities
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103316555196135859733/posts/dBJtih7Dhpb
+George Station :
..the good ones are really personality-driven by the owner and members. (I expect that to happen here and I've seen it in several others.) Topic-driven Communities with draconian moderators who don't care about small-c community, just consistency and on-topic posts, duplicate the outside forum/group experience, and so what.

Google+ Circles
"Circling is the more authentic social experience.".
-- +George Station 
more »

2013-05-17 16:57:23 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

Social Business Design: B2P

"What are people doing on Google+ ?"
-- Jason Maynard, Wells Fargo

B2P: Business to People
Jason Maynard, Wells Fargo describes what he sees as the next step beyond B2B and B2C - Business to People. This is a mandatory video.

ht +Mark Oehlert
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116464863756092691231/posts/XpFo4UtTWGJ

2013-05-17 16:42:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Capture, Reflection, Well-being

By capturing our experiences and then reflecting upon them, we improve our well-being. You can almost describe this as the positive side of digital media addiction.

Echoes from the past:
-  how technology mediated reflection improves well-being

As people document more of their lives online, some recent systems are encouraging people to later revisit those recordings, a practice we’re calling technology-mediated reflection (TMR). Since we know that unmediated reflection benefits psychological well-being, we explored whether and how TMR affects well-being. We built Echo, a smartphone application for recording everyday experiences and reflecting on them later. We conducted three system deployments with 44 users who generated over 12,000 recordings and reflections. We found that TMR improves well-beingas... more »

2013-05-17 16:30:49 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

2013-05-17 15:55:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Google+ : The Tablet and Smartphone Edition

To tell you the truth, I was a bit lost at first. Were is everything? Then a deeper calmer voice inside me:
John, breathe. Just try to put a post in, and take it from there.
Which I did. Now, a couple of posts later, I'm seriosly liking the new UI and UX.  Even the four lines text minimalism can be reframed as a creative constraint for a gasbag like me.

Expect more pithy quotes...   :)

2013-05-17 15:30:26 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

When you're on someone's profile page, and you click a #hashtag  on one of their posts, you should first see all the posts with that same hashtag from that person. 

For example, when I'm looking on +Thomas Morffew's page, and I click on a #contentmarketing  tag, I should be able to quickly browse through all his posts about that topic. Once I'm done with all those (or if there aren't any), then show me posts from other people. 

This would be incredibly useful and it would encourage more rapid adoption, I think. It would also get us a bit closer to +Jeff Sayre's "channels" idea. (https://plus.google.com/u/0/112526081195315983895/posts/bCJuCAMZcQM)

+Chris Messina, perhaps you all already thought of this and rejected the idea for some reason I'm not seeing. I think it'd be super cool though.
 

2013-05-17 14:39:05 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

The New Vertical Awesomeness of Google+

Are you also enjoying the portrait-orientation in the new column layout?  I love it.  I also love the multiple columns... I'm able to see a lot more photos at once -- so convenient and fun!  Did any of you switch back to the one-column view?   I see +Tom Anderson also likes the vertical orientation and he just posted one of my favorite photos ever!  I talked about this with +Thomas Hawk too in person -- he's also a big fan of this orientation.

This photo is of the Aurora Australis in New Zealand.  People ask if it is multiple photos... nope, just one exposure, but yes, post-processing was involved, unapologetically.

2013-05-17 14:21:06 (41 comments, 17 reshares, 22 +1s)

Bucky Fuller: 42 Hours of Lectures

+joe breskin :
"I have a friend who followed Bucky Fuller around for the last 5 years of his life, taping every lecture on Betacam. To the best of my knowledge (last time we talked about it) he tapes are/were still sort of safe in a couple of footlockers, waiting for the emergence of a wet-pass machine to digitize them. This archive may motivate him to get started."

Buckminster Fuller: Self-Disciplines
http://bfi.org/disciplines

Conversation, Adaptation, Exaptation and then some...
+Adam Black 
Three wheeled Car didnt pan out... -New Revolutionary idea: Convince humanity to walk with only 1 leg!

+John Kellden
 And an even more revolutionary idea, learn how to walk gently, feet touching ground, on this planet Gaia. :)

+Joachim Stroh
7. Seek to reformthe e... more »

2013-05-17 13:27:46 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

My first Garbologie lead

Some of you will be aware that I am in the process of launching a new waste business called Garbologie. It will develop into a network of specialised waste processing businesses, starting with mattress dismantling.

Well, in some exciting news, I got my first enquiry to supply Garbologie with mattresses and I haven't even done any advertising yet! None. Not a peep from me. What I have done is my announcement here, in my blog, on FB and twitter that the business is coming.

Yep, that's right. I was contacted by a large local landfill wanting me to take their mattresses (several thousand per year). How did they find me? Google! All of this work in blogging, building a presence in G+, Facebook, Twitter. Worth it.

Building a cloud of authenticity and chatter is not just fun, but it also pays.

And then, in asep... more »