Jennifer Palmer has one night in Salt Lake before she heads to the Reality Sandwich retreat - meet her and join the discussion on Telepathy & Technology(more)
"The mass media, including interactive social-networking tools, make you passive, can sap your initiative, leave you content to watch the spectacle of life from your couch or smartphone.
Apparently even during a revolution."
The choice of the Egyptian government to shut down the entire internet is no small thing. Certainly there were social ramifications, but news reports don't lend the proper to weight to how absolutely revolutionary this event is. Egypt is not some third-world, we-just-got-on-the-net kind of a country.
With the Internet becoming more friendly to businesses and advertisers, we're seeing an increase in concern over privacy. Gone are the days of not revealing your name to "friends" in chat rooms. Now a lot of our personal information is openly available on the web, whether or not we actively send it to anyone.
An unordered forum is characterized by theme, rather than explicit mission or purpose. If you read the about page, you'll see the explicit purpose of Evolver:
It’s good that strip-mining, tar sands, hydro-fracking, oil spilling – this flood of nightmares is scaring us silly. We’re getting that energy extraction has consequences on this earth. What could be more important than that? But our public discussion doesn’t go to the inevitable political change that is on the horizon.
Seed Blog Cultivating Community Through Celebrations
Through the years of working with in the field of event creation we have cultivated a lot knowledge. There is even a fractal nature to it and there is always more to learn and refine.
A few years ago, no one would have ever believed it could happen, but now it has: social media has surpassed pornography as the number one activity on the web.
I'm not going to tell you what Twitter is, as defined by its functionality, you can Google that on your own if you are one of those "technology-despisers" and are clueless about it.
Are you kidding me...? The person who is going to take the blame for torcher is Nancy Pelosi....???? I thought I had seen it all, but I guess not.. Wow, politics is a seriously corrupt enviorment.. It must be 'pull all your hair out' frustrating..
1. People are the most popular content
2. Connection to other people is prized
3. Self-discovery is prized
4. Information is expected, relevance is prized
5. People create and control their own experiences
6. People participate in the experiences of others
7. Experiences break down walls and seamlessly blend presentation models
8. All information sources are valid
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
