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  Ben 4:33 pm on March 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Comparison, Introspection, Self World, World Self   

  Self World, World Self : A Five Point Thought Provoking Comparison 

  Imagine for a second that you, as a person, are analagous to a world.
  
  
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  The Self World:

  
  
  1. Your world has an economy, is it prosperous? What is it’s long term outlook? Is it paying off its debts on time?

  
  

  2. Your world has a culture, is it vibrant? What new areas are being explored? What things make it different, and interesting?

  
  

  3. Your world has an environment, is it growing, stagnating, or worse? How well is it being sustained? How long can it survive on this course?

  
  

  4. Your world has different countries (interests), are they at odds with each other? Is there a struggling country? Which country is the best at what it does?

  
  

  5. Your world has room to improve. What do you need to do to make it prosperous in all areas? Evolve — some things in each area must die and others need to grow, but with enough trial and effort, your world can achieve a net gain.

  
  

  There is a flip side to all of this.
  
  

  The World Self:

  If the world were a person, how healthy and prosperous would it be in all of the above areas?

  This is a scary thought at first, but I choose to remain optimistic =]

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  Ben 4:13 am on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Ken Robinson, Schools Kill Creativity, TED Talks (2)   

  From TED Talks : Ken Robinson on How Schools Kill Creativity 

  
  I absolutely loved this TED Talk that Ken Robinson gave. He is at once a hilarious, inspiring, and insightful speaker. Enjoy!
  
  
  

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  Ben 7:18 pm on November 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Berlin Wall, berlinwall, fotw, TwitPaint, Twitter (3)   

  TwitPaint – Paint the Berlin Wall Contest With Your Graffiti 

  As you may or may not know, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is on Nov. 9. This historic event was preceded by years of sadness, and in protest many citizens on the western side of the wall painted graffiti. Presumably because they had the time and would not be chased down and questioned by secret police for doing this. To commemorate the anniversary, TwitPaint and DeutschLern Net are holding a “Paint the Berlin Wall Contest.”
  
  
  

  >Paint some graffiti on the berlin wall to protest in spirit. on twitter. instantly. Click Here.

  Want to see some of the best entries in the contest so far? Check out the best graffiti on the Berlin Wall.

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  Wie Sie vielleicht nicht wissen, ist der 20. Jahrestag des Falls der Berliner Mauer am 9. November. Dieses historische Ereignis wurde von der Trauer Jahre voraus, und aus Protest viele Bürgerinnen und Bürger auf beiden Seiten die Wand gemalt Graffiti. Um dies zu feiern, TwitPaint im Besitz einer “Paint Contest der Berliner Mauer.”

  Paint einigen Graffiti auf der Berliner Mauer nach Ost Deutschland im Geiste zu protestieren. auf Twitter. sofort. Klicken Sie hier.

  Willst du einige der besten Einsendungen des Wettbewerbs finden Sie so weit? Schauen Sie sich die besten Graffiti an der Berliner Mauer.

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  Ben 9:57 pm on September 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: PubSubHubBub, RealTimeWeb, RSSCloud, Twitter (3)   

  RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub – What’s Up? 

  RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub are two ways of accomplishing one very simple goal:

  RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub basically enable RSS Feeds to update in real time instead of periodically — and RSS Feeds are already installed on all modern blogs and content management systems on the web.

  What does this mean?

  Do you know how Twitter works in Real Time?  Whenever a person you follow posts an update to twitter it is immediately “pushed” to simultaneously update in every place where you might read it in “Real Time”.

  This means that every blog on the internet is now capable of updating RSS Feed readers in real time, and has the potential to give everybody access to the content contained on the entire internet at the speed of a Twitter update.

  From the technical side it means that instead of your feed reader having to periodically “poll” the content source to find any new updates, the content source has the power to host the update “in the cloud” and make it available almost instantaneously to anyone who may want to read / consume the content.

  This is a huge paradigm shift in the flow of the internet and it will be extremely interesting to see how developers build new services to take advantage of this fact…

  I don’t know about you but I just installed the RSSCloud WordPress Plugin and I am pretty excited. =)

  Update:

  Here is a more detailed description from the RSSCloud website:

  Three sided-cloud 

  There are three sides to the cloud:

  1. The authoring tool. I edit and update a feed. It contains a <cloud> element that says how a subscriber should request to notification of updates.
  2. The cloud. It is notified of an update, and then in turn notifies all subscribers.
  3. The subscriber. A feed reader, aggregator, whatever — that subscribes to feeds that may or may not be part of a cloud.

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    Blog Services 5:10 am on September 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    The attributes of the cloud element are used to specify a Web service builds the rssCloud interface. Blog Services

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  Ben 6:52 am on September 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: iPhone (4), iPhone Defects   

  Iphone and I 

  This damn iPhone has taken me so far since I first bought it. I think I spent 60 out of the first 72 hours from the time of purchase awake, trying to download apps and explore all the features. In short, when Leo Laporte said that it was a nice personal computer and a bad telephone he was right. At&t’s network is still delivers spotty call quality and some how I cant imagine it getting better magically when the end of the summer comes and they finally release MMS and tethering to gobble any bandwidth left in the US market.
  

  

  iPhone?

  
  

  Nonetheless, the sheer functionality of the device in such an elegant form has been executed perfectly by apple.

  The raw power of the app community gives the iPhone’s hardware features steroids and really make it better as time goes on with more creative and functional apps being released.

  It is really exciting to be out in public and have an idea, check it on the internet, and react to the social or personal graph accordingly. Suddenly, the things that we need to do and think about are easier and though we waste all of our time with the device it seems like we are being much more productive. The social media, communication, information, entertainment, and utility value are all 9 / 10 in my opinion.

  Drawbacks (for the white version at least) include cracking shells. Yes that’s right, my white 3G S is barely a month old and it has the notorious cracks in the plastic other users have been reporting.

  I also have been using a seidio innocase and happen to have dropped the phone twice with it on… nonetheless this would be very disturbing had I not signed up for Applecare.

  I thought it seemed like a cool phone when I had never used it before. Now it has truly exceeded my expectations and I have to give it a generous recommendation to anyone who enjoys social media.

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