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Whilst my body is long gone, I’m happy to still have the opportunity to talk to you like this, in a way my great great grandparents unfortunately didn’t have to speak to me. Little did they envision the opportunities we now possess to have a permanent record of our every online conversation built into a [...]

Maybe its just that I’m relatively new to it, but it appears that the Melbourne web development/startup scene seems to have a lot to offer, and from others are saying, might be picking up speed with regular events such as Thehive.org.au, Melbourne Jelly and Pitchclub, The events are great for connecting entrepreneurs and developers and bringing new [...]

Took this video of a hardened socialist protesting outside of Lehman Brothers the day it went down. With the element of truth to what he is saying about Wall St, people probably couldn’t help but wonder about the legitimacy of his tirades on international conflict. It’s the context of the current credit meltdown [...]

Here’s a link to a short article by Jeffrey Sachs on the digital war on poverty.
Its interesting to see market forces accomplishing a feat NGOs would be unable to (assuming they had wanted to).  As of 2007 over 50% of the world’s population now use mobile phones.  It took 20 years to reach 1 billion, [...]

Dan Ariely has pointed to the power of relativity when it comes choosing and experiencing those choices.  Satisfaction with a meal, a job, a car, is often relative not only to what others around us are experiencing, but is also dependent on how the event is presented at the time when we choose.   A [...]

Good intro to the concept of thought networking from Primal Fusion who are developing what I’m hoping will be an interesting platform. Excerpts from original post below.
“Thought networks provide a concrete semantic representation of our thoughts, ideas and interests. Encoded as data, our thoughts are accessible to the power of computing. Semantic synthesis provides the [...]

Just came across this impressive ad (about a year old) at the end of a TED talk. I’m not a marketer, but the emotive brand association is clear genius.

From a past trip to india.  Click on image to see the polite offer for a hitman service.
and “All discharge are freshley made”.

Just came across this post by Jeffrey Stibel. The Internet is a Brain.
It prompted this first post, as this is realy what I’m interested in exploring.   How we can figure out how to use the internet to achieve global superordinate goals.  Its not a new concept, but with the social web coming into its own [...]