Silence: Is it the way?

Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev often stresses the importance of silence.
Now Google is also says so, thanks to JP of Confused of Calcutta.
Now with so many post mentioning about Flow, I’m wondering if the Blogosphere is very close to getting it!
More latter…
Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev at TieCon2007: Spirituality is HiTech, It is the highest technology…. I see no contradiction with HiTech. More the people start thinking scientifically more they start to be spiritual.( In response to question, Is it possible to merge HiTech with spirituality?)

Microbrand, Micropublishing

Recently I came across blog post that are must read anyone following the blog/web2.0 trend.

Hugh McLeod on Stormhoek Microbrand building
I love #15:

15. It took two years, but Stormhoek is finally starting to feel like working for a Silicon Valley startup. Everyone is really pumped up. Contrast this with the average staid, boring schtick of your average “gentlemanly” wine business.

and #6,7:

6. Two years ago, I estimated that a well-executed Web 2.0 marketing plan would take about two years to execute. In retrospect, that was a pretty good call.

7. Yes, I understand that not everybody has two years to play with. Some people are only as good as their last financial quarter. But that is why I work for a small, private company. If Stormhoek was owned by Wall Street, I’d be dead meat.

In Defense of Twitter: Tweets as historical artifacts:

…Why do you think we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again? It’s not merely because people are historically myopic, it’s because historical evidence as it is presented is full of holes, missing experience, context and depth.
…
it is merely a tool (140 characters at a time tool). The amazing thing about Twitter is that it has a great, low barrier to publishing for me and many others. The printing press was a tool that started to democratize the publishing of information and the internet made this even more possible.

How about building a Microbrand using Micropublishing(Twitter)?

Mturk + Opensource Process = ?

1)The code opensource movement initiated by RMS resulted in Linux which culminated into many things including Wikipedia.

2) J P Rangaswami( Confused of Calcutta) in his on going four pillars discourse talks about Opensourcing processes.

3) I’m presently very excited about working with DesiCrew on application of Amazon Mturk for advancing their mission.

The three things above is ringing a bell in me with force and I’m shaken by the power of the idea.

I see a parallel here. The building blocks of the GNU project viz. the Gcc, Emacs, bison, and other g-tools served as a building block for Linux to happen. Similarly, web2.0 tools particularly Mturk( to some extent even Twitter) could possibly be the backdrop for the bold new enterprise era where process are opensourced. May be I’m too excited and carried away by the fads. Yet more I think about it, more I see the parallel.

What if a bank becomes totally transparent. ( Inspired by Dr Nachiket Mor of ICICI Bank’s talk at Madras Management Association(MMA) yesterday )

Or better still, Governments become totally transparent!

I’m dreaming a new age with totaly transparent goverment. And it is as feasible as Wikipedia! Or someone wake me up.

PS: Mturk is the eyeball equivalent for the open process to work!

Twitter::Living life aloud, visible

Jeff Barr dreams about an end to email era! He suggests using Twitter – An Async IM more like orkut scrap book entry with a size limit( 140 Chars)!
It is poetic to see with all the computing processing power, network bandwidth and unlimited storage, message overloaded people choose/recommend size limited, non-persistant async messaging.

Interesting!

This sure will improve the qulaity of the blogs: When twitter soaks up all the trivial updates as we go through life, blog post will become more purposeful.

Bonus Link:
Less is more in overdrive!

Clarity from an year of Confusion

JP, Confused of Calcutta, refines his learning in The kernel of this Blog:

Governments and firms are left feeling helpless, as central control diminishes and the power of the individual rises, and they need to recognise that bell curves now have very long tails.

Think Pink( Bluemonster!)

Sriram Krishnan [MSFT] is a little miffed that gapingvoid Bluemonster is featured in the Wikicamp Booklet.


I thought a logical discussion with The Argumentative Indian(that too from MSFT) is not going to get us anywhere useful. So I’m responding with a video rather than words. It is bit crude but still serves the purpose of driving the point across!

Very crudely, the bluemonster roams the desert( the old scarcity economy) and arrives at the much cooler web2.0 space and turns green and spins. In the churn it turns pink(o) and flies free in the land of plenty( surplus economy) and transforms itself into a symbol of enlightenment! ( PS: Pink = Community/Social/Inclusive/Grassroot)

Thanks Maha of upsl for quickly cooking up the video using secondlife.

Update(09 May 07): Steve Clayton( Geek in disguise) is calling for a wiki for/by Microsoft partners at UK and wants it to spread organically worldwide!
And some Jihadi Am Bush( pun intended) on opensource – wow interesting!

Bonus link:
Pink approach for a green cause.