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Notes from Underground: NanoEvolution
Yeah really. DJ Anomaly keeps getting better and better, the crowd was totally into it, the lighting made everybody look good, and at 5 a.m. cinnamon rolls appeared as if by magic … epic indeed! We had both spent most of the week sitting and working so had a lot of pent-up energy. D had…
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Temporarily disabling comments …
I’m getting hit by a ton of spam so am turning off comments temporarily. Carry on.
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Top 15 Privacy Panels for SXSW — Don’t Delay! Vote Today! (UPDATED — deadline tomorrow!)
We’re heading into the last few days of public voting for SXSW 2012 proposals. Votes and comments count for about 30% of the decision-making process, and so advocating for the panels you want to see is important. The deadline is Friday, September 2.  So please vote, comment, and share this link with your friends!…
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Notes from Underground: Perseids and Assimilation
How time flies when you’re having fun! After another quick trip to the Bay Area for some wine tasting in Sonoma, we’re back in Seattle for the full moon, meteor showers, and back-to-back DJ Anomaly shows at The Atrium. w00t! Professionally, once again a lot’s happened since my last post on The Union of Bliss…
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Nymwars! Part 3 of Google+ and Diversity
Keep the pseudonyms and lose the assholes. — Kathy Sierra The battle over whether Google gets to police what names people can call themselves rages on. Ten days after Google VP Bradley Horowitz promised process changes, accounts still keep getting deleted without notice. And while Facebook Director of Products Blake Ross got his account reactivated…
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Communications tools for Startup Weekend: some recommendations
If we didn’t have a 54-hour time limit, of course a core team should define the problem, specify roles, set milestones, and designate team members to take on various tasks. But we did have a 54-hour time limit, and the entire team was not going to spend all of Friday night (the equivalent of three…
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Notes from Underground: Retox, the Nexus Fire Ball at Space 550, and DJ Anomaly at ‘Beyond Rapture’
So between activism, NWEN, and qweries, I’ve been working hard but not killing myself — and still taking lots of time to have fun, hang out with friends, and get sleep. And the universe has been aligning. Life is good. — from DJ Anomaly and the Mysterious Voice of Ra Life has continued to be…
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Beyond comment threads: any ideas about “game-changers”?
One of the best things about the web is that it enables many voices to be heard. Blogs, comment threads, forums, and social networks empower people to take part in new kinds of discussion, dialogue, and debate…. With all that activity happening across the web, how do we enable more coherent, elevated discussion? — Beyond…
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Will Facebook “archive” the One Million Strong for Barack group?
With Facebook announcing an “upgrade or die” policy for old-style groups, it’s a stressful time for One Million Strong for Barack. As the Erratic Synapse writes in Facebook Stands Poised to Take Our Group of Over 980,000 Obama Supporters… Back to 0 on Daily Kos, Here’s the problem: our group may not be eligible for…
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M&C Consulting and Qweries Launch Prototype “Canadian Election Platform Resourcesâ€
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, Seattle | April 21, 2011 What questions do you have about Canada’s party platforms as you prepare your vote in the May 2 general election? As they stand, do the current platforms make you want to vote? If so, how? If not, why? That’s the goal of “Canadian Election Platform Resources,”…
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Any Canadians out there have a minute to help?
I’ve been working with M&C Consulting on a couple of Q&A (question-and-answer) sites for the Canadian election. We haven’t gone live yet, so sites are currently at http://achangeiscoming.qotd.co/ (English) and http://ca2011fr.qweries.net/ (French). If you’ve got a minute or two to check it out and vote for at least one answer you think is interesting, it’d…
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Save the Rave at City Hall: Next Stop Sacramento?
At one point, a speaker was criticizing AB74, and a commissioner asked “are you ready to go to Sacramento?” The room erupted in cheers so loud that I couldn’t actually hear what the speaker said, but I’m pretty sure the answer was “yes”. Sounds like a good idea to me. Can’t wait for the afterparty!
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Notes from Underground: Transformation, Intersections, and the Road to Ultra
With qw3ries and the intersection between writing, activism, entrepreneurship, psytrance, and transformation (and in so many other ways), I’m not just rejecting choices but finding ways to synthesize and combine them. — from DJ Anomaly at the party without a name Indeed! It’s looking like my startup qw3ries‘ first forays into helping everybody get answers…
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Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights: the voting so far
The SXSW panel got a decent amount of attention, including article by Helen A. S. Popkin’s Vote on your ‘Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights’ on MSNBC’s Technolog, Kim Cameron’s post on the Identity Weblog, and a brief link from Mark Sullivan of PC World. Here’s the voting so far 41 yes 0 no Honesty:…
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Q: What should I read to find more about the Q&A space? A: Here’s some links.
The Q&A (question and answer site) market segment is red hot right now. Here’s some links to complement my own posts Life imitates art imitates life, Prisms, Kool-aid, and Opportunity, and What do you think of this one-line pitch for qweries? The overall landscape Choe Sang-Hung’s South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine (in the New…
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Preparing for a coaches’ meeting, parts 1 and 2 (DRAFT)
Draft! Revised version to appear as a two-part series on NWEN’s blog. Congratulations to the 20 companies who advanced to the second round of the First Look Forum! Hopefully by now you’re already scheduling your meetings with the coaches.  We’ve got a great list of coaches, including some of the highest-profile investors and entrepreneurs in…