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Forbes Magazine dated March 16, 2009
Ideas & Opinions
High Network Individual
Quentin Hardy, posted 02.25.09, 06:00 PM EST

Larry Brilliant, ending plagues and providing energy is about information flow article here too

my comment below re-edited version - original was on Forbes

interesting to watch the mind of Larry Brilliant at work and also challenging the status-quo and himself - i wonder what he thinks given his experience in India how he feels about the future and the present meltdown, systemic failure of society - which at the core i believe is a failure of trust - a society built on fear and distrust serves its masters a society built on trust serves its people and maybe we should be putting our energies into building up trust and stop playing follow the leaders - we can deal with plagues and natural catastrophes but the real plague of society is our leaders and ourselves - we have to stop pretending we are zombies - we keep on repeating the same mistakes, the same wars, the same violence the same insanity since before forever - but i digress, the question is.. given the unintended consequences of world wide meltdown and its impact which could turn back time to the dark ages to your early days in India - the system is broken and humpty dumpty fell off his wall street and no amount of money will bring him and the banks and stock market and the instruments of distrust back together again - so given that, we are possibly facing world wide food, water and essentials for life shortage… what strategies should we seriously be thinking of - i remember the early days of The Well and thought it was a great seeds of something that maybe we are seeing now in the name of social media, social communications, social revolution… and maybe the information flow part of your and google projects we should seriously be looking at pooling and mapping our local and global resources and stop waiting for the government to save us from ourselves - you might want to check out a social sculpture greenmap.org a locally-led global movement of mapping resources

as a documentary filmmaker doing a doc called self-portrait of humanity i like to ask people - what they think people of the future will say about us today? i look forward to watching your thoughts unfold

be well
geo geller
the art of living is making your life an art

listening to music make me listen -

i have been playing with compiling 2 playlist one dedicated to Keith Jarrett that i will continue to add to with a wonderful talk about the Carnegie Hall Concert - the talk is full of amazing insight into keith jarrett the musician’s mind and heart and relationship to music - among the wonders he talks about was for the second time in his life the other time being the Koln concert 30 year before being exactly 30 years ago when he was 30 and now he is 60 he walked out on stage and realized nothing could stop him - listening to his comment you can see why too the carnegie hall solo concert was like the koln concert

one of the playlist now has 200 pieces and songs and instrumentals and some words songs and wordplay too from gilberto gil, caetano veloso, tom waits, miles davis, paco delucia, isla de camaron, keith jarrett, al “jazzbo” collins, yo yo ma, louis armstrong and when i put it on shuttle (symbol above add on right hand side) i get this rush of whats next that i like but more so listening to music does what to me/us/you ?- i ask myself in you - to me its hard to find words but if i had to its like eating a symphony - everything coming to you all at once - music touches you in your mind heart body and soul - what it does is more indescribable then describable - its a vibration that goes through you - i would be interested in hearing what others feel and think about music and what our relationship to music is too

Keith Jarrett Talks About The Carnegie Hall Concert jazzcorner.com (10 tracks)
(note - click shuttle above add for random experience)

http://www.playlist.com/playlist/15281100555/standalone

geogeller’s Playlist (200 tracks) - (note - click shuttle above add for random experience)
http://www.playlist.com/playlist/15261449995/standalone

a friend of mine produced Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert (1975), one of the best-selling jazz albums of all times (wikipedia) and his most famous album The Köln Concert January 24, 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzqMJWlKMsY and she talks about how keith was so outraged at the tuning of the piano that he walked out of the sound check and refused to play - and they were both sitting in the limo and she simply said to keith something to the effect “its ok if you leave and don’t play for me its just money i will give all these people who came to see you their money back but think about them they came to see you because they love you and were looking forward to seeing you and they don’t care about the piano tuning they only care about you and how disappointed they will be if they don’t see and hear you” - well the rest is history - food for thought

enjoy
g-oh

comment from nytimes feb 20 article Baby Boomers, Luddites? Not So Fast By Jenna Wortham that i stumbled on

link to comment below that got my attention thank you the mysterious steve g -

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/baby-boomers-luddites-not-so-fast/#comment-208107

1) We were invented the same time as computers.

2) We invented your music.

3) We invented your culture.

4) We have money (until recently).

5) There are tens of millions of us.

6) We are never going to die.

7) Get used to it.

for everyhting else, take Viagra.

— Steve G

i would add

you are not who you or will be with out us

your future is our future

your past is our past

you and your children will probably curse us for letting you down and using up your future

and finally maybe the dreams of the babyboomers in the sixties might becoming true with the melt down and systemic failure of trust and maybe out of the ashes we can rise up and build a future a society not on fear and distrust that serves its masters but a society built on trust that serves its people - food for thought

geo g

slightly modified from comment on loics post which is Twitter Robots Killed Me (And Why I Apologize I May Not Be Following You Anymore)

a friend of mine produced Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert (1975), one of the best-selling jazz albums of all times (wikipedia) and his most famous album The Köln Concert January 24, 1975 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzqMJWlKMsY and she talks about how keith was so outraged at the tuning of the piano that he walked out of the sound check and refused to play - and they were both sitting in the limo and she simply said to keith something to the effect “its ok if you leave and don’t play for me its just money i will give all these people who came to see you their money back but think about them they came to see you because they love you and were looking forward to seeing you and they don’t care about the piano tuning they only care about you and how disappointed they will be if they don’t see and hear you” - well the rest is history - food for thought

hmmm loic - few issues - i started sending back DM to people informing them that DM by many of us is not looked upon favorably and is more like an invasion - in response to chris brogan auto DMing post - i thought better to educate people who think this is an acceptible way of say something including thanks - but an auto responder DM is really way too much - i suggested that twitter put up a notice in the DM window to say automatic DM are frowned upon …

on the other side loic it could appear as you abandoning all the people who went out of their way to follow you especially since you are a trust agent and builder of community with your sesmic and le web - it is interesting and maybe a little reaction to something that bothers many of us - i signed up early on twitter but didn’t have the bandwidth for all the chatter in the early days until few months ago - i realized that twitter had grown up and was more about building a community - aside for all the marketing whores out there pimping twitter there is what i call a trust movement - maybe it’s wishful thinking - to build a society built on trust that serves it people as opposed to what we have had for way too long a society built on fear and distrust that serves its masters

so in the end i think there are lots of tradeoffs and unintended consequences - its depends upon how you relate to twitter and how twitter relates to you - and beauty is in the eyes of the beholder - not sure i would agree with your strategy loic -

Commentary: Huffington Post Steve Rosenbaum - Obama: Madoff Behind Bars or here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/obama-madoff-behind-bars_b_168819.html

i hear ya loud and clear steve and you are justifiably outraged but i think we need to look deeper into this - madoff and company are just the symptoms of a society that believes in its own propaganda - to me i think there is a fund-ah-mental issue at the core - among other things government is a gang and their job is to stay in power at all costs - if you notice its not about we the people its about either being in control or the opposition - the opposition oh-mission position is to be in the position of control - maybe to better understand this - all car drivers hate pedestrians - until they park the car and get out on the street - then they hate all cars and drivers - talk about instant schizophrenia -

government and politics is very much like the above example - so a little known secret is i worked on the floor of the new york stock exchange when i was 19 and was struck by how much it was like a locker room mentality - i wouldn’t trust these guys with your money - hmmm, anyway steve, maybe what we are seeing is the humpty dumpty syndrome of wall street that crumbled because it believed in its own propaganda for way to long to the point that it fucked itself royally and took not only we the people of the Union of American states down but the united states of earth - the rest of the world and Obama is trying to throw good money after bad until he runs out of money and realizes its a broken system - the system of top down management by fear and distrust is broken - let it go and lets build a new society built on trust that serves the people not its masters

a little known fact is that the reason all these toxic loans were issued in the first place was because European and international financial institutions bought the paper thinking it was worth something - but in good American buyer beware mind set we fucked ourselves and fucked the hand that feeds you/we/us too - everybody got taken advantage of and now the house of cards and ring around the not so rosy rosy all came tumbling/falling down - but the real issue should be also on warren buffet back and his moody’s

excerpt from observer.com by Michael M. Thomas article Why Didn’t Warren Buffett Blast Moody’s? http://is.gd/kmKf

…Berkshire Hathaway owns roughly 20 percent of Moody’s. The big rating agency is certainly one of the principal villains in the present crisis, and there is a certain tasty irony that a big chunk of its stock is controlled by Warren Buffett, who famously called derivatives—a class of paper that in many forms required Moody’s nihil obstat to get sold—as the financial equivalent of weapons of mass destruction. Unfortunately, however, as a casual stroll through Google reveals, this story was all over the media last year, which makes its current shock value zilch. As Lear observes, nothing can come of nothing.

end of excerpt

but let us not overlook this quote that comes at the end of above statement - As Lear observes, nothing can come of nothing.

but i dis-agree with Lear - the stock market proved that something that comes from nothing may appear to be something - or as Lincoln said you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time - hmmm oh that is wrong too - look at the stock market - it was built on a mirage and corporations unlike individuals don’t have responsibility - nobody is accountable for their actions - a corporation is treated like an individual but can close shop and stop existing it can hide behind the veil of corporate legal non-sense - who writes these laws rules and regulations for whom and by whom to to protect who from whom but the real question is who protects us from those who say they are protecting us - and so back to Lincoln who said you can’t fool all the people all the time - but the stock market, government, big biz, media have transformed democracy into an idiotcracy and has been able to fool all of the people for a long long time - as the song goes - its been a long time comin’

a walk down the streets of nyc or any town anywhere and you see lots of empty store fronts where big and small companies went belly up - and why?, not because they didn’t have real value but because the box chain stores goal was to be in control and often the city fathers sold their future to the box stores and malls out

so you reap what you so - bernie madoff wasn’t doing anything that ken lay and enron and all these companies on wall street weren’t doing themselves his problem is he got caught and why he is not in jail is because he could bring the house of cards tumbling down - the equivalent of herbert hoover and his legal FBI mafia - ooops not supposed to say that - damned - anyway bernie and the banks and wall street were milking the cow but the problem is they forgot to feed the cow so now it is in a coma on life support and fading fast so now what is happening as far as i can tell is we are coming to the end of control the end of a society and business built on fear and distrust which serves its masters - maybe made-off mad-off made off with lots of peoples real and imaginary monopoly money that was built on a mirage and maybe this is an opportunity to build a new society built on trust that serves we the people and maybe its a time to return to mom and pop stores that were not built on lowest price but on family, warmth, trust and friendship - the failure of trust has reaped what it sowed and time to learn from our mistakes and follow our hearts and flap our wings and be like the butterfly who can change the direction of a storm at the same time it can even create a storm too - food for thought

the future is in your hands

be well

geo

the art of living is making your life an art

hi david
revised version of email i sent to david pogue

generally i find what you do to be refreshingly playful and honest and insightful and enjoy it with a smile on my face but your twitter article and video got my attention

link to original david pogue nytimes article

i was working on this as a tweet but twitter went down as i was sending it

missed mark @Pogue got bull not bullseye -twitter also social communications tool 4 future you/we/me building open trust society

and here is a little more behind what i was trying to put in the tweet - which is always challenging at best so here goes

if you had been to the SocCOMM.com event last tuesday that jeff pulver produced you would have gotten some insight and incite into the dynamics and potential of twitter as a tool for building a new society built on trust - as far as i can tell we are in the middle of a systemic meltdown due to a failure of trust and failure of the top down management system that we have been repeating since before forever -

the point is maybe better expressed in

a society built on fear and distrust serves its masters/leaders a society built on trust serves its people

we are in a social revolution that is much like the frog in slow boiling water - the social communications social media social sculpture that we find ourselves in with twitter and facebook and other social constructions are building a future built on trust that many of our present and past leaders/masters of the world don’t want - they understand the power of fear and the fear of power and the power of not belonging and the power to manipulate people with their agenda/propaganda

it is said the trade of kings is in war and maybe there is a reason why we never have had long periods of peace in the world is because the leaders of the world have been threatened by peace and never wanted it because fear is a much more powerful motivator - we live in an idiotcracy where big biz is king, government is queen and media and religion is mistress and our democracy is melting down as we are witnessing economic social, political environmental systemic breakdown - and twitter and these social communications tools are part of building a future building a society of trust and so twitter is not always just a brain drain but to some of us its a brain flame in 140 characters - as you say “its what you make it” - and how you approach it - you get what you put into it in the end -

food for thought

my recent twitter to #davos #obama #meltdown #soros

society built on fear & distrust serves its leaders a society built on trust serves its people
- reinvent society

we need to reinvent ourselves and our society from a society of distrust to a society of trust

so how do we do that you might ask - i might answer one of the elements is in the “power of one which is more then the power of none” by jeff pulver - each individual needs to shine in order for us to take back the future if we are going to survive ourselvs and have a future - the future is watching you

be you
geo
the art of living is making your life an art

the face of it or face it - on the future of the web from june 95
a tone poem on the future of the web from the past (june 1995)

RandomPlace.com
“to find order in disorder and dis order inorder”
@random roams the net

the random report
the face of it or face it
by
# 1 son

the image can be yours, mine, ours… we are the face behind the net… who are we, who are you… who am i… face it… it is, we who are the net… we are the they that searches and surfs trying to find a piece of me, you, us… like the humming bird who flies in the face of science, defies nature and lives to tastes the sweets nectar of once impossible dreams…

the net surfer defies the imagination of our ancestors… moving at the speeds beyond comprehension… in awe of our potential… we seeking out every nook and cranny, everything possible and impossible… on humming birds like wings we fly beyond… into the unknown with the click… just the click of a mouse we enter worlds far and near…

but, with all this potential how to make it human, creative, socially and commercially viable… is the question and struggle that eludes us… we are very much like the humming bird that eats it’s food on the run not staying for dinner… we are off to discover or distract our selves.. moving faster than the speed of light we are still not any closer to understanding how to humanize and create a social community that is more than entertaining, or a commercial platform in the 20th century…

as we enter the new millennium how to create a community a socially integrated sculpture that is the challenge that faces us… randomplace.com is designed to stumble on good mistakes and to explore the unexpected, unexplainable, undeniable, unforgettable, unimaginable, the uncontrollable, the unforgivable and then some.. and there you have it diarRHETORICS from @random as usual june 95

editors note:
it says it was written june 0f 1995 but i wouldn’t trust that if i was me more likely written 1996 end editors note

FYI RandomPlace.com has be the adopted child of my dear friend Jeff Pulver from Pulver.com since 1996 originally RandomPlace.com was hosted on fly.net at the @ CAFE in nyc

Benjamin Zander talk at Davos brought tears to my
Managing Complexity: A Different Approach with Benjamin Zander

it was such a delight to see video Music director of the
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Ben Zander at Davos - Zander was in a state of wonder & awesomeness were nothing can go wrong - talking & planting seeds to an international audience of 400 people who were too serious and self-important to know it - he danced through time space and life with the ease of the man of the flying trapeze jumping through imaginary hoops & always stopping to point out the possibilities but to me it was like watching a real artist as Henri Cartier-Bresson said “taking photographs is like making love” you have to love the people you are photographing and Zander not only loves people he loves life with a passion that brought tears to my eyes just to see him express his love, in-sights and in-cites and if you watch this video until it brings tears to your eyes you will see the world of possibilities

link to Ben Zander’s Davos talk from davos web site http://is.gd/hvvh

youtube full screen
http://www.youtube.com/v/-EYm1yoOhbQ&hl=en&fs=1

The Art of Possibility, co-authored with his partner, psychotherapist Rosamund Zander, has been translated into seventeen languages

from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Zander

Benjamin Zander (born March 9, 1939, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England) is an American conductor from Britain. He is the music director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory.

also more on my blog http://diarRHETORICS.com

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be well

geo
the art of living is making your life an art
art = caring for the imagination

hmmm sounds kinky juliette - this auto-erotic-stim-you-lust package is mind altering so here goes

! - i would think hard before i acted - if you don’t know how to think but only act without thinking i would kill myself - hows that for auto-erotic-stim-you-lactation

2 - i would look at my resource pool and jump in and go swimming - oh i mean… what do i mean - i would look at my resources pool of things i am passionate about and have resources to do and try and find other people i could pool our resources together and take on the world - is that better

3 - i would re-invent myself and re-invent the world and look at this melt down from every possible angle i could imagine - including how it developed and why and who benefits and if there is an intended consequence and what we can learn about society and ourselves and myself too and if there is an exit or no-exit strategy - i think this economic social political global meltdown was brought on by many scams over the course of our way we do things out of fear not out of trust even thought we want to belong and to trust - this was intended and had some unintended consequence like all sucker punches nobody wins - banking gov, wall street, corporations, media etc the powers that be knew this was artificial constructed reality was brewing for a long time but they didn’t get the message that when the damn breaks it floods and washes away everything with it down stream - we are in a global broken dream - we have to discard broken tools and monuments and build a new state of trust in people and that would be my personal bail-out too

4 - i would be quiet and listen and walk softly and carefully for these are going to be very trying times - as the power of fear is overwhelming and with shortage of good and no services and no credit and life as we all have known it is over - which is scary but is good because we can re-build a new improved society built on the power of individuals to make a difference - i would think about every move i make and what i need for life - in essence i would be in survival mode and yet look at all the possibilities we have to create something new something wonderful something unimaginable and positive too

5 - i would throw all of the above out and raise up and jump up and jump for joy while i can and enjoy the little gifts of living and life and share that joy and love and with a little help from my friends we could make what a wonderful world into our world

NYTimes Bill Keller executive editor questions from me
dear Bill

i would first like to start as i end with a quote from Thomas Jefferson that echoes my question

“We are to guard against ourselves; not against ourselves as we are, but as we may be; for who can imagine what we may become under circumstances not now imaginable” - Thomas Jefferson 1822

my question: what is the responsibility of the press in times like these in economic, social and political crisis which at the core a crisis of trust… what is role of trust in the media both in a state of distrust that we have now and in building a new state of trust from the ashes and what responsibility is the new york times willing to accept for this, is the real question

fyi i am an independend nyc doc filmmaker doing a doc called “Who’s Wearing The Emperor’s New Clothes” if so many people believe in how can it be wrong

NYTimes Bill Keller executive editor questions from me readers
fyi its only for one week askthetimes@nytimes.com subject line Question for Bill Keller

i enclose some excerpted quotes i have gathered from Thomas Jeffersons writings
you can also reference this link for more

http://emperorsnewclothesproductions.com/jefferson

=Freedom of the Press=

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.

“Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.” –Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816.

“Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.” — Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786

“I am… for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.” –Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799.

“Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.” - -Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.

“The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.” –Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Paganel, 1811.

“Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.” –Thomas Jefferson to the Spanish Commissioners, 1793.

“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804.

“This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.” –Thomas Jefferson to A. Coray, 1823.

“Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.” –Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart. 1799.

“The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.” –Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807.

the battle of internet viewing of moving images vs talking lamp and film

hmmm seems to be no meeting of the eyes to eyes here - from sitting on a cloud watching this you both might be right and wrong at the same time until there is a convergence of quality and content the talking lamp tv has the quality issue won at least that is the argument my gizmologist friend who has put most of the network satellite dishes in nyc up… his point is people are lazy and quality and easy tv will win - but i don’t necessarily agree with my gizmologist but i don’t tell him that because he’s a gizmologist -

mark and dimitry original blog http://blog.veoh.com/blog/?p=138

but the question we need to ask is who are we - 20 century man was spoon fed media by the gatekeepers does 21 century online man trust the gate keepers - according to todays economic social political meltdown pundits (me) - we don’t trust nobody - their is a failure of trust - which is maybe why social media is rising to the top - even though i just spoke to jeff pulver from london and asked him… do we know what social media is yet…. he hesitated and said … no… oh well - so from my perspective from todays talking heads and talking lamp todays 21 century man is more curious more engaged more interested in what he wants, when he wants it and how he wants it… i personally think the future is nonLinear Films and more in-citeful and in-sighting films - and the rush to build 3-D theater screens to save the movie industry is going to have a rude awakening when they realize 3-D is a lean back experience and not a lean forward experience of action movement films - but all that is another story -

so the real or fake mcuban makes some relevant points and everybody has their point of view - my point is slick is gloss is not the same as quality to many of us and more often is seen by the online man as too contrived and also often too predictable - so the viewer addicted to talking lamps might say why see something on some mickey mouse laptop or computer screen when you can have the real thing - but i personally don’t think that percolates to the top for the 21 century man of the internet nation - we are much more interested and interesting as far as i can tell and also more forgiving then talking lamp watchers and we kinda like looking for the mistakes - since many of us both todays content producers and observers have grown up on films and talking lamps we are not our parents yet

so i figure its a draw you are both right and wrong and when i want your opinion i will give it to you too

anyway so maybe you can shed some light on a question i have about if you think this might resonate or be relevant - i saw a demo last week of this and still wondering and thought you might have some thoughts on it too
but it also relates to some of mcuban statements so if you had

Real-time viewing of standard or 1080i high-definition video
Deliverable anywhere worldwide to any computer, mobile phone or TV
Replaces expensive satellite, dedicated/leased lines and other traditional CDNs
Low and fixed latency
Starts immediately
No buffering or download time
CODEC independent
Improves network performance by more than 80%
Maintains quality while eliminating dependence on mirror servers

is this something or not of interest - i have no vested interest in it other then i wanted some people in education, sustainable & social development to be aware of it and since you guys were in this dance i thought i would come in and agree and disagree with both of you too

food for thought

geo geller
the art of living is making your life an art

response to chris brogan Social Media Is Not a Life Raft

damn stop the world i wanna get off - isn’t this life raft earth - must have taken wrong turn and got on the wrong vehicle - the question is - what is the question will somebody please tell me what social media is or isn’t or when it or i grow up i wanna become a fireman who puts out fires - maybe that is what social media social communications is = you trust the fireman - “trust” - building trust - food for thought

RandomPlace.com
“to find order in disorder and dis order inorder”
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