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Back to the Future

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:14 +0000

Back to the Future

In this world, which is getting more closely and closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.

h/t +Thomas Kang

Сообщение из ленты +Thomas Kang:

Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970)

One last question: Suppose, Lord Russell, that this film will be looked at by our descendants, like the Dead Sea scroll, in a thousand years' time. What would you think it's worth telling that generation about the life you've lived and the lessons you've learned from it?

I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed, but look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more closely and closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way; if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

- Interview of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and mathematician and Nobel laureate, on BBC's Face to Face (1959)

Bertrand Russell's Message to the Future

Money, what it is, how we use it and how it is controlled, lies at the heart of our global civilization

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:54:53 +0000

Money, what it is, how we use it and how it is controlled, lies at the heart of our global civilization. It is the one 'system' that is identical whether you live in an enlightened western democracy or the latest satrapic city-state to be set up on the independent wilds of the Martian colonies (soon to be?). Questioning it, or even examining it too closely raises all sorts of issues and questions.

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Сообщение из ленты +Martin W. Smith:

Virtual Currency Shakedown By US Government
Got to love our government. How clueless do you have to be about digital to think shuttering a bitcoin exchange stops anything. Bitcoin is an IDEA.

The idea +David Amerland's excellent What If We Had A New Value System For Goods and Services discusses so well and an idea whose time is here and now. I don't carry cash anymore. I have a single dollar on me as I write this having just purchased lunch with my debit card.

Money is DEAD and gone buried by our digital age. Bitcoin, the idea of a virtual currency, is a powerful idea since such a currency would set its own value. More accurately, WE would set Bitcoin's virtual value by our social investment in it.

Got to love a government who is so clueless about what Bitcoin really is that they shut down the PHYSICAL thing as if they caught some wild cowboy counterfeiters. LOL, how stupid can you be?

Bitcoin as an idea may become STRONGER thanks to the government's actions. The "Streisand Effect" predicts any attemt to quash a story makes it go viral that much faster. The government may have just done what the bitcoin movement's founders were beginning to do (in a stumbling in the dark kind of way).

It is not JUST that we will make sure and create something when the goofystupid arm of Johnny Law comes down so cluelessly, but that bitcoin is an idea whose time has clearly come. We need a currency WE own here in social media. Some way we can more truly value those things we understand better than currency, the Fed or the US Government can.

I am not suggesting wild revolution, but an artistic look at how we value THINGS and LIFE as the not so subtle subtext of David's reads and challenges so well. My friend +Alan Fitzpatrick has a great company called +mailVU with some amazing listings in Google.

Did any potential investor ask Alan about those amazing listings? Nope, because they don't understand the CURRENCY they represent. Instead they asked about defendable Intellectual Property (IP) as if such a thing still exists (it doesn't).

Bitcoin is the currency for the digital revolution and, as such, this new cyber currency only gets STRONGER with every effort by ham fisted governments to kill it. So there is this thing called The Interent and it is going to do whatever it damn well pleases Uncle Sam. Help and be reward. Obstruct and become as irrelevant as so much of what you already do IS.

My advice? DO NOTHING and bitcoin will sort itself out. Continue to obstruct and you may speed bitcoin (and similar ideas) on paths you really don't like much (unintended consequences being a true pain in the you know where :).

Money is DEAD, now what?

SUCKS: Was Bitcoin Crackdown Inevitable?

'Non-political' Bitcoin is 'like internet – can't be put away easily' RT “Bitcoin is a fundamental protocol for money over the internet.

Tumblr, the microblogging site, has been the only such platform to succesfully leverage the medium and create value and connections where none existed before

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:32:17 +0000

Tumblr, the microblogging site, has been the only such platform to succesfully leverage the medium and create value and connections where none existed before. Yahoo is acting properly by considering buying it. Its acquisition will give Yahoo a fighting chance in the new semantic web.

Сообщение из ленты +Glenn Gabe:

Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr

Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr

It's (nearly) done.

Excellent post by +

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:21:23 +0000

Excellent post by +Marisa Goudy that takes something that sort of just happened and creates real value in how G+ is used. If you're a beginner here (or even if you're not) this is definitely worth checking out.

Сообщение из ленты +Marisa Goudy:

Inspired by "that thread" by +David Amerland and always looking for fuel for the fire I'm trying to light under my community to get them to give G+ a chance, I hope this piece gives reluctant Plussers some fresh reasons to take a dip in the stream.

And there's a shout out to +Michael Bennett's latest blog post (how could I resist mentioning I had been credited with the "comment heard round the world"? I am from Massachusetts after all!)

Ripples in the Google+ Stream that You Can Feel |

Ever heard of Ripples? They're a Google+ tool that allows you to track your influence on the platform. In a future post we'll give you the more technical details about how to use them. Find Ripples by clicking the corner at the upper right corner of any public post in your stream ...

I grew up iin a city

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:40:31 +0000

I grew up iin a city. Although I like the countryside I find that I feel the buzz of civilization and creative energy best in urban landscapes. This is Singapore's skyline, a city that is forever reaching upwards.

If only rubbing the lamp and making a wish, worked

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:39:05 +0000

If only rubbing the lamp and making a wish, worked ....

These days it's win a car at every airport.

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:03:03 +0000

The bright Dubai "lights".

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:39 +0000

Ten weeks

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:57:54 +0000

Ten weeks ... six countries. I kinda feel like my next book should be called ... Airports!

Walking on Air!

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:22:19 +0000

Walking on Air!

As a writer you never know just how close you get to meeting the needs of your readers. Certainly you hope you're doing a good job but, ultimately, you only know after the event is done (so to speak). That's why every reader's opinion matters to a writer. It is the only way they can get better.

I came across this review of one of my books and it has me beaming with smiles. When a book helps someone so much that they feel they have to come and tell you it really lifts you, no matter what.

Amazon.com: Susan Byron's review of SEO Help: 20 new search engine optimizatio...

Put it this way, I am no expert when it comes to SEO's, Google+? I did not even know what a semantic search meant? which is where this book has proven invaluable already and I am only on chapter 10. David explains in easy to understand terms the importance and relevance of a whole pile of new ...