9 posts tagged “wup”
"I have flawless skin, a flawless face and a gorgeous body. What man wouldn't want to have a relationship with me?"
Lovemarks: the top 10 of the top 200 listed:
1. Shah Rukh Kahn
2. BookCrossing
3. Kajol
4. Apple computers
5. Vin Diesel
6. FreelanceByU
7. Moleskine
8. Rami Mukherjee
9. Anne Geddes
10. Where's George?
Five people: 1, 3, 5, 8, 9
3 female, 2 male
4 actors - 3 Indian (2 female, 1 male); all Bollywood musical stars;
1 American (male) action/adventure star
1 artist/photographer/writer
Two products: 4 and 7
Apple computers - high tech (4)
Moleskine - journals; low tech
Two services: 2 and 6
BookCrossing - an internet based book sharing service
FreelanceByU - a free coupon/free offer sharing service
One internet paper currency tracking service: 10
Where's George?
The three services are interpersonally connective and interactive.
The two products are interpersonally connective and interactive and private simultaneously. Many who use one use the other and interact with other users.
My own personal interaction with the top 10? Eight out of ten -
I have seen two of the three Bollywood actors and the actionadventure actor in films.
I have read some of the artists books and have seen her pictures.
I have tracked a dollar bill through the system.
I own two Apple computers (desktop, laptop) an iPod and my son has an iPod. Mine is his old one.
I write in a Moleskine journal, and use another Moleskine for my WUP. Friends have brought me Moleskine products from France, and I have given one to my son to use for film ideas.
Find out about Lovemarks:
Scanning the 10 principles of Burning Man from the website
10 Principles
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the
stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is
unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for
something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to
create social environments that are unmediated by commercial
sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect
our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of
consumption for participatory experience.
Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual.
No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine
its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the
giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive
to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works
of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should
assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate
civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume
responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state
and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no
physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after
ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a
better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We
believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in
society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal
participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to
work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through
actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of
value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between
us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around
us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world
exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.
Scanning K. Anders Ericsson in Fast Company's Nov. '06 Final Word On Becoming The Best
Q: What do you have to do to become the best?
A: Successful people spontaneously do things differently from those individuals who stagnate. They have different practice histories. Elite performers engage in what we call "deliberate practice" - an effortful activity designed to improve individual target performance. There has to be some way they're innovating in the way they do things."
- K. Anders Ericcson, Florida State University, Final Word, Fast Company 11.06
Scanning newspaper - The Capital (Annapolis, MD) article on US crime statistics
FBI ranking of the top 10 most dangerous/safest cities in US (Morgan Quinto Press)
Most Dangerous Safest
1. St Louis Brick, NJ
2. Detroit Amherst, NY
3. Flint, MI Mission Viejo, CA
4. Compton, CA Newton, MA
5. Camden, NJ Troy, MI
6. Birmingham, AL Colonie, NY
7. Cleveland Irvine, CA
8. Oakland Cary, NC
9. Youngstown, OH Greece, NY
10. Gary, IN Coral Springs, FL
First blush pondering:
The most dangerous part of the country could be the Midwest, with 6 of the 10 most dangerous cities.
The safest part of the country could be the East, with 5 out of the 10 most safe cities.
Old industrial cities are 8 of the 10 most dangerous.
All of the most safe cities are smaller than any of the most dangerous cities.
The two cities that I live between (about 20 miles or so from each) are 12 (Baltimore) and 19 (Washington) on the most dangerous list.
Scanning Watts Wacker, fururist, from an online presentation
"Out on the edge is where everything begins. Whatever it is that you want your future to be, it begins on the edge."
"The edge is where everything begins, and it starts its migration to the development of our context for the times in which we live."
"Cultural schizophrenia is really nothing more and nothing less than the gap between the world as we intuit it and the world as it presents itself."
"Autocatalytic change creates its own change as it goes."
"How you organize your view of the future has an awful lot to do with what happens in it."
The Pillars Of Creation/Innovation
"Scope - you have to give yourself permission to think big."
"Attention to detail - anyone who says, "That's just a little thing," I think is a candidate to be fired. Absolute commitment to the smallest of issues is important in creation."
"You have to challenge convention - how do you give yourself permission to break out of norms?"
"You have to insert fun. 70% of everything you learn in life is through play."
"You have to create your own process. You have to find out what inspires you, personally. 80% of life is just showing up, but for just showing up you get a "C." The way you bring your A game is you find what inspires you, and not only do you find what inspires you, you give yourself a chance to reflect, to incubate."
This is all in quotes because I thought it was so good - and I kept pausing the player to make sure I got it right. (I think I did.)
I have the bottom and center books, and the third one (top right) is on my Christmas wish list - I've heard it's excellent. (Hint, hint...)
New census data: US at 300M
300M 200M 100M
2006 1967 1915Percentage of population with at least a high school education
85% 51% 13.5%
Percentage of women in the labor force
59% 41% 23%
Average household size (persons)
2.6 3.3 4.5
Population of Phoenix, Arizona, and it's population rank among US cities
1.5M (#6) 439,170 (#29) 11,134 (not in top 100)
Since the Verizon PHIOS install, a few things have become very clear, very quickly:
PHIOS (Verizon fiber optic) is faster than Comcast, has a clearer picture (so much clearer that we no longer think we have to replace our TV) and is less expensive.
Leading to these questions:
Q: Has fiber optic technology leap-frogged cable?
A: Yes.
Q: Can cable recover once customer loyalty is over?
A: I can't see it happening.
Q: Is there customer loyalty for a commodity?
A. No. Commodities are price/convenience driven.
Q: Can a cable (Comcast) picture get better without HDTV?
A: It doesn't look like it.
Current personal experience/understanding:
The difference in picture quality isn't just noticeable, it's remarkable. I thought our TV was worn out, or at least fading fast. The picture was immediately be better - without adjusting anything. The sound doesn't have variations between channels or between program (normal) and some local commercials (shouting) like it did when we were with Comcast.
Q: Why did/does Comcast let commercials yell at me, and Verizon doesn't?
Q: Why did the Verizon guys do such neat work, and the Comcast guys do such messy work?
Q: Are the Verizon guys Verizon employees, paid by the hour, and the Comcast guys contractors, paid by the job?
Q: Do these two facts tell me a whole lot about Comcast, and maybe about their future?
1. When I called and told them I was canceling my service, no one asked me why - they just said I needed to drop off the set top box and remote.
2. When I dropped off the set-top box at Comcast, no one asked my why I was discontinuing my service. All they did was check the serial numbers and give me a receipt.
3. They don't seem to care. There doesn't seem to be any reason for me to think my experience was unique.
I think it looks like . . .
Dial-up internet access is dead, or dying quickly, at least in populated areas. Point: Having to pay for a dedicated phone line and then pay for dial-up access cost me more than Verizon's high speed fiber optic, which comes with the possibility to link other computers and a no-cost to me WiFi access point for my iBook. Why would anyone pay for less product at a higher price? They are over, but at least they seem to know it.
Comcast has been leap-frogged, both in quality, price and product. They had the advantage of getting here first, and the disadvantage of building an extensive infrastructure with a technology and delivery process that doesn't appear to have the capability to improve. They are in trouble . . . and they don't seem to care.
Aaron Neville moved his family out of New Orleans a few years before Katrina because he believed them when they said it (New Orleans) was a disaster waiting to happen
"The people in charge of the levees took the money and run."
The purity of heroin is increasing. His day, 45 - 50% pure; today, 90 - 95% pure.
