Gore Almost Gets It
Worldchanging – Al Gore almost goes open source (as called for on this blog) –
Gore will take the slideshow and pull out anything that’s personal, to create a general version…Trainees will learn to do updates themselves, and Gore will also feed updates to them periodically. Once trained, people go back to their communities and give the presentations themselves, and train others in their community to give it.
Instead he’s going to train 1000 people to give the same presentation in an effort to set off a systemic change in perspective. But informing people, and focusing on the the moral or long term imperative, is not enough.
Sharpcast
MobileCrunch – Finally a push system for synchronizing data across multiple platforms-
Basically what this means is that Sharpcast’s team has built a “Universal Push Synchronization Engine” that allows you to select whatever data you want synched across multiple devices and have that data pushed to the web and to whatever other locations you specify
It’s about time someone put this together. As someone who distributes work on a PDA and a desktop powerhorse this looks to be a blessing.
Links In
John likes what I have to say, as does Chirol of Coming Anarchy. Thanks guys.
Lebanon Cartoon
Chris Britt gets the nature of warfare, something being lost in the war=peace program –
Networked Public Sphere
Howard Rheingold says –
My own belief is that the strong potential for such improvement has been demonstrated (for example, the use of MySpace by high school students to organize street demonstrations, and the many instances of political smart mobbing noted in this blog, but that the success of a mediated public sphere depends upon whether a sufficient number of people an activate this potential to achieve real ends.
Not so much the number of people, but the focus of the group. Instead of trying to impact large scale players (democratic nation states) with equally large scale supposid organic groups the right idea is to focus on common social clusters (college kids, businessmen) and leverage organic interest (school loans or low taxes) to turn them into disruptive innovators to “grow change”. Simply put – scale it down and ignore the legacy player. As Sun Tzu once wrote – don’t let the enemy define the battleground.