Cybernetic Culture Design: The Unknown Human Edge of the Network

76 Creative Connectors in Philadelphia. NewsWorks: Barnett, Benjamin #film #media #politics

2011-09-30T19:06:00.000-04:00

Thank you. Citizen 3.0. Cybernetic Culture Design.

NewsWorks: Barnett, Benjamin

Music Discussion: Bad Company - The Nine.

2010-09-20T18:55:00.000-04:00

A frequency based moment...

Style: Drum and Bass
RT: 5:21

We witnessed Bad Company destroying the decks with the Injection crew, live, and online at the Media Bureau !! Essential DNB !!!

Discussing: Digital Media Strategy

2010-01-22T19:22:00.005-05:00

http://HDSDmedia.com;
PhiladelphiaIndependentFilmFestival.com;
Phila Undrgrnd film forum;

buyboards.com; Networking eco-system.

Phase III enabled. Public release - Beta v03
Date: 01.03.2010

Other reference to: Google Sidewiki

Notes 11/09: Digital Media Strategy: Time Sensitive Design

2009-12-01T01:50:00.007-05:00

Phase I:
@Behaviorologist: See you at 10:00pm in the lab. #Design #UX #film #Media

B. Discussing (Social) Media Strategies within time frames. Specifically 1,2,3 month campaigns. #DMS #film #media #politics

C. Define: Innovation flow, Opportunities, Goal(s), Methodology, Tools, Process of Design, Strategy, Integration... #DMS #film #media #politics

D. Innovation flow: Discovery,discussion,exploration of SuD. (System under Discussion). think: EcoSystem. #DMS #film #media #politics

E. Discover opportunities: Niche proposition, Strategic advantage, SuD Outer most UseCase. #DMS #film #media #politics @Behaviorologist

F. Goals: Target Strategy Classes, Integrated Use Case Scenarios, Active SuD modeling, Community/Ecosystem enabling #DMS #film #media #politics

ongoing ...

Manning the Digital Media Strategy Ecosystem in 2009 and beyond...

2009-08-13T01:49:00.015-04:00

Incomplete: notes

As the Digital Media landscape continues to disintigrate the Media market place and fractionalizes ever so close into consumer anarchy, where do you stand? Are you engaged with your consumers or just starting to? Have you identified niche market places that house rabid consumers of your (clients) brands? Do you "interact" with your consumers or do you still "talk to them?"

What is the makeup / design / methadology / delivery of the strategy?
Where do we see Digital Media taking the Brand?

- Community has been the answer (goal) to core branding and niche based revenue models since (1995-9).

- Manning the system is based upon a devised and early analysis of current trends/status and goal oriented decision making.

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ongoing.

Digital Product Diplomacy ... Is it meddling? Gun Boat?

2009-07-29T13:57:00.010-04:00

Here in the freeRADlab we have been discussing the idea of Digital Diplomacy since late 1998. We believed then that the Internet was the great enabler by providing the common person with access and a voice to "millions" of actors. We also knew that the idea then was to achieve "eyeballs" as part of any Web strategy. We chose to use the already coined term - "user" instead. It did not fail to register that the only other group that falls under the category "user" was Drug User. We associated "addiction" and "repetition" to this person(s) or group.

We applied interaction in as many ways as possible to produce "sticky" "addictive" results. These results allowed for more user time in our sphere of influence (Information ECO-System). This provided us with a feedback loop that fueled our way forward. People wanted more.

We first niched down and targeted communities based on defined make-ups and strategies that focused on quick wins. We wanted to build momentum. Sometimes we supposed - other times we asked questions - many times we lurked.

As an end game, we always identified impact as an essential part of the decision making process

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Ongoing ...

Most of the time, the project defined a type of user it needed. They just needed to be able to find what we had.

In 1996 while working for cable company Comcast online, a job I was later to loose because of an inability to handle SPAM assaults, the online group was tasked to provide a "web browser" that would reflect the online presence of the new Broadband offering. At this time, Comcast could count maybe 12,000 subscribers. The idea was to harness the content, frame it for ease of use, and act as a "portal" to all that you needed. The key was to drop the Netscape interface and make the "chrome" work as a tool. We were working with Excite@Home. At this stage it was as much a technical project as it was a content based solution.

ref:
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http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/clinton-calls-barnard-grads-engage-digital-diplomacy

Cybernetic Culture Design: The Unknown Human Edge of the Network

2009-06-11T17:51:00.004-04:00

Cybernetic Culture Design: The Unknown Human Edge of the Network.

freeRADlab --- Knight News submission here:
http://generalapp.newschallenge.org/SNC/ViewItem.aspx?pguid=6671c4e8-ddb2-4170-9b12-e864115cc5a3&itemguid=b380d58b-9c33-4e6a-a92f-cad13d0b2807

{{{{{{{Phase 1 enabled}}}}}}}

... Digital Media Strategy (DMS) Optimized for Sustainable Eco-System.
... land based
... mobile
... I/O

Is it about time to transition off the Grid? The URL has fallen.

2009-05-28T01:42:00.028-04:00

What have I done? Dr. Frankenstein

Is it possible that the almighty URL has fallen from its perch and taken a fatal blow by the disintegration of the Digital Media landscape? A website presence is no longer required as part of any online launch. Websites are now called applications by those who build (develop) them. The rabid rise of Social Networking and the capability of boundless self promotion across multiple global platforms of millions and millions of opt in humans, bots, worms, bugs, etc in single key strokes is absolutely incredible. People are producing their own (interesting!) content at shocking turnaround rates, year after year, more and more, and posting it online for all to experience and comment on. Connecting the dots was never so easy. What does this mean for Cybernetic culture design?

It is no longer a requirement to have an URL when a Social Network marketing (ecosystem) plan will actually work. With the recent enabling of a wider, hyper-interactive, user base via the belief that Broadband connectivity is as needed as the radio, telephone, television was when it was originally made available, we know it is a matter of time of its demise.

The future is a combination of micro niche efforts under the Outer most Use Case. Things do not look good for pay-per-article (newspapers) as a silver bullet. The ongoing aggregation of cherry picked (global) content to "user" pages is the future.

Clearly, politics has been changed forever ... micro-donations in the political arena are thriving and propelled now President Obama to the Oval office.

We are either witnessing or experiencing a time in history where citizens have been enabled via the Internet to take back the journalistic and political platforms from a grassroots perspective. It is a time in history of the possibility of true political RAD reformation. Citizen 3D. Let's hope no Henry VIII lurks behind the curtain...

Planetary Cybernetics of Food Administration

2009-04-19T08:52:00.009-04:00

Planetary Cybernetics, as administered by the freeRADlab, requires in-time, research-active interventions sufficient to counter current failure scenarios that challenge biological, personal, social, and cultural preservation and protection. Each potential failure scenario will be assigned a number by the Planetary Cybernetics In Time Administration #PCITA @freeradlab. Cybernautic free-rad lads who participate in research activist-intervention for life-cycle support will receive digital Walden Two labor credits (exchangeable for coffee in the #freeradlab) by the @labormanager @digitalWalden2.

Issue 1: @digitalWalden2: RT @irf01: #political TeaPartyProtest: If HR 875 passes, our President can't plant the organic garden he and Michelle are planning #freeradlab

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875

Behavioral Objective: Identify, copy, paste, and respond evaluatively to critical elements of the bill that enable law enforcement to punish organic gardening. Positive validation of the claim that independent farming is under legislative assault must occur in time to mobilize and organize an opposition if necessary.

Planetary Cybernetics Administration (PCA)

2009-04-18T18:43:00.005-04:00

In the glory days of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States government administered research on aeronautic and space that enabled exploration and extended the options for cultural evolution. As the American post-World War II economy shrunk its industrial base and transitioned through service sectors into superfluity, the post-terrestrial options shrunk to the wealthy few.

Systems continue to atrophy under the combined influence of excess population, multi-tiered pollution, natural resource depletion, proliferation of weapons of depopulation, and the corrupting multi generational and globally active influence of over resourced secret & semi-secret societies.

As America's Camelot generation wakes to the threat of an American Hiroshima and as the free press goes out of business, the domain of exploration and cultural enablement expands past the nation -- across and beyond the planet. As long as the issue of inter-planetary transactions is obscured in government secrecy, the domain of collective natural science exploration can not be narrowed to earth. This is also true as long as extra-terrestrial solutions to issues on the planet remain an option.

So scope extension of "our" natural science exploratory efforts requires a planetary systems scope both in terms of the ownership of that science and its province. Planetary inhabitants respond in systems that potentially vary from trans- to inter- to intra-planetary, regional, national, state, county or city in places that may host governmental, economic, religious, educational, medical, or behavior-therapeutic agencies and services. These places and those whose behavior transacts with them comprise the domain of planetary systems.

The scope of contingencies surrounding planetary behavioral transactions is practically infinite but an ethical behaviorology and culturology seeks to reform the systems comprising behavioral and socio-cultural environments so that they are self-correcting or cybernetic and that the power that they impose preserves and protects systems, system controllers, and system controllees, mutually.

Behavior and culture change in time and a self-correcting cybernetics must be in time to avert failure scenarios and maximize success opportunities. Standard celeration charts enable fundamental behavioral and cultural phenomena over time to be displayed with quantitative and qualitative precision for both baseline analyses and parametric adjustment of imposed experimental conditions based on consequence measures.

The starting locus for the administration of a Planetary Cybernetics in Time is the freeRADlab Cafe in Northern Liberties Philadelphia. The freeRADlab cafe is an e-cultural hub of research-activist events designed to enable and enhance survival and success for planetary systems. The "free" in freeRADlab uses the American concept of freedom from unwarranted restrictions to go "Beyond Freedom & Dignity" (Skinner, 1972) and act collaboratively to preserve and protect our future as individuals, communities, cultures, and species. Yet as Skinner warned, the equating of freedom with the feeling that accompanies a current or predicted improvement in circumstances undermines future success. Species and cultural survival are part of the requirement definition for the achievement of freedom. Perhaps the Jewish concept of freedom as obedience to G-d the source of life provides a better definitional fit. Obama's recent election on the mantra of hope exemplifies this extreme blurring of the line between maps and territories. A free operant is a response that changes the environment and is immediately thereafter capable of being repeated. In the freeRADlab, social media experiments are underway that are designed to enable free-operant talk to modify shared frameworks of bottom-up e-governance.

The RAD is freeRADlab is radical in the sense of being rooted in a context in which multiple sets of socio-cultural circumstances are subjected to systematic analysis and integration using strategy patterns in Rapid Application Design of cultural software. The radical is extreme and thoroughgoing in its search to predict, control, and explain behavioral and cultural processes and phenomena in terms of selection by consequence contingencies. It favors drastic social and political reform so that contingency defects can be successfully repaired and rapidly corrected.

Finally, freeRADlab is a laboratory-cafe environment in Northern Liberties in which behavioral and cultural experiments are collaboratively discussed, designed, developed, deployed and data disseminated in the service of administering planetary cybernetics in time.

Cybernetic Culture Design

2009-03-27T22:48:00.005-04:00

Establishing the link between digital and analog culture.

http://freeRADlab.blogspot.com

(ongoing)

NASA Space station manuevers to avoid Chines space junk ...

2009-03-24T00:20:00.012-04:00

blogging (space junk)
updated: March 22

* The entire space station complex had to move out of the way for approximately 3 hours (using thrusters to create a slow drag affect) from a very small piece of a 10 year old Chinese satellite rocket motor. The piece of space junk measured just 4-inch (10-centimeter).

- The frequency of space junk impact has "suddenly" become a recurring issue.

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notes:

The PDS is mainly designed for scientists researching the planets: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/

Mars program faces turning point
As mission costs mount, some scientists say other destinations beckon
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29842638/

reference:

2009-03-22T00:08:00.001-04:00

Sunday LA Times bloggers
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/

Think Progress
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/21/geithner-krugman/
http://www.communitycounts.com/forum/?id=obama

Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog: Digital-Image Color Spaces
http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page1

Space Junk funk ... Space Station under attack... Again.

2009-03-17T00:59:00.010-04:00

blogging:
Looks like another collision is possible (last report: Feb 12).

It appears that "tactical" efforts will not alone be sufficient going forward. For now, it will work. Tomorrow who knows.

What does NASA have in mind?
Will new NASA Space Defense weapons be devised / accelerated to shoot down the possibility of collision with multiple pieces of junk in space? What kind of weapon would this be? Photon? Gas? Particle? Laser? Nuclear?

It appears that the frequency of collision with such "high velocity" debris will only increase.

continuing.

SEE:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4307535.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/03/16/space.station.debris/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

What is e-governance? Blogging from W3 eGovernment Interest Group Meetings

2009-03-11T14:03:00.008-04:00

update:

Tomorrow we are attending the W3C's eGovernment Interest Group Meetings in Washington, DC.
W3 eGov Interest Group

We are interested in egovernance and the ongoing interaction between the emerging Digital class with current methods of (global) governance.

We will be updating via Twitter at PoliticiansTV. We'll post links and updates later on this blog, so please return soon.

See you online.

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contact: benjaminserious at gmail.com

Thoughts on #wemedia ... virtually speaking, we were there.

2009-02-26T19:48:00.031-05:00

Blogging:

Our Washington Bureau Chief had briefly mentioned the WeMedia conf. in Miami sometime ago and suggested that it be something we check into. We did, by sending in a half thought out version of a time line we have been compiling over here and moved on. Safe to say, we never heard back. So instead of going, we decided to tie into this conf. virtually. We figured their would be enough going on online that we would feel right at home and on-location. With the state of online aggregation and advocacy being what it is (see #inaug09), we figured we would be right there in the mix.

We were not disappointed. Of course, there is no replacement from actually being somewhere. We missed the face-to-face casual chats, pool side meetings, and local eats. What we got instead was an unfiltered interaction with the community of attendees (est. 200) via local Press (Miami Herald mainly), blogs, Vblogs, Posted articles, and minute by minute Tweets.

There was what seemed like an average of 2/3 Tweets (http://Twitter.com) every 5/10 minutes or so. We witnessed little self-promotion in the blogosphere, although plenty of that was happening we are sure. The conf. was being streamed live via the http://WeMedia.com site.

Discussions ranged from TV news embracing new media, Knight CEO Says Journalism Losing its Geographic Roots, and WeMedia, or Their Media? amongst many others.

We found the mood to be somewhat gloomy and perhaps for some reason (These are liberals by some people's description) elitist or is it just confidence? Why would We Media not be a highly charged interactive discussion about success and failure scenarios (live!) of the past 2 years of journalism in general and maybe politics specifically. The whole world now has a case study of how the 2008 Obama campaign used New Media to help change the direction of Democracy. The New Media community has clearly entered the next phase of its integration. Citizen 3-D - Rise of the Advocate. This is revolutionary. Capitalism can never be the same.

It was effective, none the less, to see the cross-roads of traditional press and digital journalism. We hope this is a featured subject / component of this conference for years to come. Virtually speaking, we think We Media is an important gathering of interesting and influential people that are living and examining an evolution in journalism history. Perhaps next year, We Media will engage more of the web and the blogosphere as an actual part of the conference and webcast / post (audio or Audio/video) events. To take it a step further, link up early with blogs, active sites and tech writers / pundits as the year progresses in a "grand experiment" of sorts.

None the less, we were there.
Maybe next year, we'll be there. ;)

See: We Media

Pending update. x2-030309

We know know that the modern human stemmed from ...

2009-02-18T15:00:00.007-05:00

... a split about 300,000 years ago from the Homo gene pool.

According to current carbon dating, Neanderthals appeared about 800,000 years ago.
Does that suggest that "humans evolved in 800,000 years" to what we are today?

This seems like a short period to us considering the Earth is 100's of millions of years old.

Does that suggest that other life forms could have been capable of visiting or evolving in such a time frame?

Why humans?

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Scientists Finish First Draft Of Neanderthal Genome
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100648070

Nano Bio & Anthro:
http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/

eObama - Campaign 2008

2009-02-12T15:31:00.007-05:00

Repost. 021209

This is a good resource of articles about Barrack Obama and his run for president, with an emphasis on Internet.

e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics
Learning from the Obama Campaign: Essential Reading

We will be discussing in talk back and forums.

end.

Destroyed Satellite's high speed debris worries scientists...

2009-02-12T14:10:00.009-05:00

notes:
1. We have no idea what to expect in such a disaster. Nothing.
2. The debris is traveling at 660 ft per sec.
3. This could set off a chain reaction of events that puts the Space Station and other satellites in trouble.

Will their be interplanetary cooperation? NASA's debris experts are working on the situation now with Russian counterparts.

ongoing.

Why Newspapers don't matter anymore...

2009-02-12T13:41:00.029-05:00

blogging: notes

Discussing the prediction of the end of the print Newspaper in its current form, paper and ink. (Suburban local's and large city dailies will go first.)

Counter control:
Harness the full effect of the local blogging / digital journalism interactive model. Devise relationships and aggregation ideas.
1. Identify the most influential journalists and bloggers, SN sites,and Brick and Mortar "Business case" examples.
2. Understand local business culture / history and established / current climate.
3. Spend money to help (exponentially) build internal / external infrastructure.

** Suburban and local newspapers will continue to collapse under the reality that online information is available to "suburban" citizens that can pay for Internet connections. These newspapers must go online now ...

** Newspapers and printed materials such as magazines will become rare in the next 5-10 years and impossible to find in 15-25, except in certain places and at certain times ...

Jeremiah Owyang: web-strategist blog spot.

2009-02-09T09:20:00.006-05:00

While looking for tech spots that focus on SN I came across Jeremiah Owyang
in the SF Bay Area. Owyang is a Sr Analyst at Forrester Research on Social Computing. These web strategy reviews and blogs are excellent reading and will serve you well in helping establish a SN strategy. Check out the posting of reports that obviously come from actual research, so it's possible that you are getting nuggets of information that might otherwise cost thousands of dollars. As well, apparently when Jeremiah contacts people for lunch, they call back. 'nuff said.

http://Twitter.com/jowyang
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/

ongoing.

The Obama Database ... Who owns the data? (draft)

2009-02-07T12:42:00.030-05:00

blogging:
draft v02

-Blogging on the Barrack Obama Campaign 2008 Database.
Return for ongoing updates or subscribe to our feed. Thank you.
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The massive "opt-in" database launched in early 2007 by Joe Rospars (New Media Director) and the Obama team had provided the Obama '08 campaign a unique opportunity (but not a unique idea) to develop and interact with a rapid (post early adapter) following. These citizens provided an unprecedented amount of personal information while volunteering and contributing funds via Facebook, YouTube (via Obama’s own “channel”), IM, and other “real time” digital interfaces. Viral political campaigning had taken hold for good in this time frame changing the political landscape once and for all, forever. But we knew that already!

Since the Obama campaign opted out of taking matching funds and essentially had not used the DNC apparatus to run its campaign, BarackObama.com took what many (drDigipol, CAP, Politico, Salon, Media Bureau, and many others) already knew was going to happen – a virtual candidate that owes nothing to (but is more than happy to use) old media and the old political guard while being able to take over their own destiny via an online centric advocacy campaign.

It had finally become mainstream that (starting at the RNC’s Digital Alley at the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia and followed at the DNC in Los Angeles) online advocacy and activity can translate to offline, on-the-ground results. This was done not just by connecting via the Internet but allowing the user to be enabled and featured. This is contrary to all past campaigns that spent so much time and money "controlling" the message as well as the medium. With the verticalization of (the web) Social Networks such as YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook, and IM as a new strategic Real Time activator/enabler, Obama's New Media team established a permanent platform through which people could identify with (they were already “adapted” users) and use themselves as “activists.” In a rudimentary way, citizens were now part of the campaign, or so they thought. The goal was to quickly activate citizens in the following ways:

1. Ensure that all people would be accessible via a "Mobile" interface and therefore, in touch, at all times, anywhere.
2. Allow and enable for the creation of "Niche Campaigning" via use generated posting of Web Campaign based Videos.
3. Establish Microtargeting scenerios and deliver "themes" and "candidate produced" video and txt interaction directly to people who want it 24/7.
4. Utilize an already existing "Smart" user base generated on Social Networks and the skills they (users / Citizens) have acquired.
5. Buy time on networks that include (niche programming) Cable shows via country wide local programming and reinforce via txt and local “meetup” style home “events.”.
6. Openly engage the Blogosphere instead of shunning them (and in turn establishing counter control problems that could go viral) and interacting as a partner, contrary to your opponents, while offering a “possible” voice in policy and –e-government.
7. Purchase and produce Rich Media Online Ads in content rich niche markets to as to stay “interactive” with Citizen users.
8. Speak directly to niche audiences in the manner in which they are accustomed (language and content style are customized based on hyper market analysis).
9. Provide a central repository (portal) to all that is Barack Obama with http://barackobama.com that enables citizen / users to:

1. Find and take part in “local” events and groups
2. Be enabled to contact undecided voters within your demographic
3. Be heard.

So with the above, we now have a tightly controlled but an apparently loosely based, group strategy to engage and enable the Digital (2.0) Citizen .

So when the citizen / user signed up and provided the Obama campaign their personal information, did they believe that they were providing the Campaign or the DNC such personal information? We think, clearly, people volunteered their information because they believed that it would be used by the Obama campaign, not the DNC or any other entity (there was no disclaimer to state this would be the case – or was there?) Where will this information go and will citizens who signed up be asked if their information can be used for "party" happenings?

Tactics to generate such information were personal and widespread. For example, “… as the primaries and caucuses neared, what [Steve] Goodstein calls "a big experiment" started paying off. One Sunday afternoon in early December, minutes before Oprah Winfrey and Obama addressed about 29,000 people at a rally in Columbia, S.C., Jeremy Bird, Obama's state field director, asked the crowd to take out their cellphones and text "SC" to 62262, Obama's short code. The code spells "Obama" on phones.” This was done repeatedly through out the campaign generating “millions” of phone numbers and other personal info.

So, who owns the data?
Well, since it is now housed at the DNC, clearly the DNC.

Ref:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29069515/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081903186_pf.html/
http://www.newpolitics.nethttp://wizbangblue.com/2008/04/29/obamas-database-a-treasure-trove-of-riches.php

Interfacing. Human Interaction (Design)

2009-01-30T14:47:00.006-05:00

notes:

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
multi-touch interaction

This is available now.

http://oblong.com/
Developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment.

file under: Human Interaction(Design)

end.

Cyber warfare ... attack of the online clones.

2009-01-30T12:25:00.006-05:00

blogging.

Are we ready ?

http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/cyber-warfare-the-united-states-a-call-to-arms

ongoing.

Challenges loom as Obama seeks space weapons ban

2009-01-26T23:55:00.006-05:00

By Andrea Shalal-Esa - Analysis

A very progressive move that could signal a more "electronic eye" approach to security.

post:
http://www.nvg.org/sinclair/sinclair/clive_su0884.htm

Sci-Fi as Science.

2009-01-25T02:13:00.000-05:00

“Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” Isaac Asimov

Super Soldiers .. .smart or just bots?

2009-01-24T11:58:00.010-05:00

Ok, so we have a soldier that has capabilities beyond belief ... Armor, weapons, self sustaining capabilities, training, and most of all - other super soldiers. Where does the line cross from "Robot" to "human" if at all? Where does the next gen network slip out of reality and into a parallel fighting force? Are rogue Robots not far behind? What happens if networks are compromised - and they will be - where do these soldiers stand in terms of allegiance? What happens when one of these battle field vehicles is commandeered by enemy super soldiers?

Are they then capable of doing soldier work as humans? Or are we seeing the end of the human on the frontlines of the battle field? Drones already rule the sky and satellites have been "eyes" on the inside for some time.

When the future combat systems take over, who is in charge? Anarchy? Or Big Brother?

Name the MARS Rover ... Last chance!

2009-01-23T16:28:00.002-05:00

blogging:

We have entered and so should you ...
http://marsrovername.jpl.nasa.gov/

end.

Inauguration 20009 #inaug09 !!!! DC, January 20th.

2009-01-20T19:28:00.033-05:00

blogging:
Everybody had a camera. No where did you go and not see hands stuck in the air recording everything and anything. Smile! Can I take your picture? Where are you from?

This #inaug09 was a full frontal New Media outing (again!). Caveat: It's level of interactivity was minimal *20% immersion possible at best. We witnessed very little contact (organization) with attending citizens on the ground (Citizen interaction was minimal.) Events appeared to be very much about pomp and the moment.

There was very little intrusion from law enforcement although obvious around an entire perimeter. Witnessed 1 military defensive action. People were cut off from food, water, security and on foot. Metro's were jammed and shut down (Metro Station) with little or no way to figure out what was true or which stations would be affected. People trusted "hearsay," "rumor", and good will. Their seemed to be much hearding going on as people would stand in lines for long amounts of time only to realize the line went nowhere. There were no Information booths for people to help you get around. No vendors of anything. No people on loudspeakers. Nothing. Very minimal police / gov / "visible" presence.

update:
Cell phones must have been jammed on a "haphazard basis" as they would go up and down in terms of signal. It could not have just been capacity - their appeared to be no reason why a citizen would call at the same time unless you base it on speaker impact possibilities / potential. Some of the speakers would generate very little interest to begin with. As well, since there was "no" information available to people walking around, nobody knew anything unless they had a “connection” to the outside. The White House and surrounding Mall is on physical / technical lock down.

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ATT signal dropped for a full hour period (1:00pm) and txt messaging went down fully.
Update: ATT Service works again (- 2:22pm) and I was able to "phone" out of state.
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txt msg not working.

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Web access and in turn IM had been disrupted. It seemed blocked and sudden.

http://www.sharpra.com/default.aspx

2009-01-20T05:54:00.002-05:00

reviewing:
http://www.sharpra.com/default.aspx

2 million people and a lot of technology.

2009-01-20T05:44:00.010-05:00

Update:
Inauguration 2009, US President Barack Hussein Obama.

Deployment team:
2 operators
Multi-media (I/O) level 3
A/D
AC/DC, IL
WiFi,RJ44,RF

pending.

... 1st Post in 2009

2009-01-05T11:54:00.005-05:00

Look for blog to begin with Inauguration 2009 coverage!

TechHeadz is a gathering at the cross roads of human interaction, technology, and the future.

Creating new life forms - Last post in 2008.

2008-12-28T19:17:00.008-05:00

We were just discussing the article by Live Science Editorial Director,
Robert Roy Britt, entitled Fear: Hobbyists Will Create New Life Forms.

We have been thinking about this for some time and have wondered when this dicussion would go mainsteam. With the mushrooming of nanotechnology and biotechnology, it can only be alluring to the garage set (people who like to experiment off the radar)to try new things ala Brave New World. Now we have a name for this: Biohacking.

Here's alink to the article,
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/081228-create-life.html

Thanks to Robert Roy Britt.

See you in 09... We have lots planned.

- TechHeadz '08

A new era of Science & Technology has begun ...

2008-12-20T11:17:00.030-05:00

Posted: 122008 (Science / Technology)

Mark this time in history as a time when Space exploration became "mainstream" and the US Government appears to have lifted, for the moment, a veil of secrecy. Science and Technology are about to see unprecedented governmental support and in turn, the Human race will forever be affected.

With the appointment of Harvard physicist John Holdren as the final member and Director of President elect Barack Obama's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (he is a Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University)and Oregon State University marine biology Prof. Jane Lubchenco to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Obama has sent a clear message. Science and Technology as a priority tool and resource for our future is crucial to our survival as a species and we must take charge of this destiny. Now.

Joining Holden as co-chairs will be Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Eric Lander, a specialist in human genome research. Holdren will have a team of 40 Ph.D-level experts to help guide and shape policy and an overall approach to clear and present dangers such as Global warming as well as space and other futuristic questions that are at our doorstep.

The time is now for interstellar exploration and the exposing of new realizations unknown in modern times. A new era is upon us. Will we see transparency as has been suggested?

Remember, President Bush has previously ordered large increases in NASA funding as well as trips to Mars and the continuation of the Hubble Telescope - more than 1 Trillion USD (http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/budget/)has been committed. NASA and space exploration have been a common bond of interest of the two administrations. Is the realization (to the public) of Organic Planets not far behind?

Reference:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
http://www.jetfleetinternational.com/PDF%20Files/USAToday_Jan2004.pdf
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/12/nasa-not-cooperating-with-obama.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93297331

ongoing.

http://www.mogulus.com/blog

2008-12-18T14:50:00.009-05:00

Taken from the Mogulus Blog located at:
http://www.mogulus.com/blog/

notes:

http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz3.html
http://www.mogulus.com/blog/?p=778
-How much Bandwidth was used?
Video
/ Chat (posts per minute)
/ Page views / ClickStreams

http://www.mogulus.com/pari

http://live.youtube.digitaria.com/site/streams.xml

No, Facebook is dead...

2008-12-08T18:47:00.017-05:00

Updated:122208
Here's a POV of the actual users on Facebook. Interesting that they generate no money on the millions of users. Obviously they need to establish a "presence" not just and impression via banner ad's... The plot thickens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/media/14digi.html?_r=1&ref=business

Updated:
Can this be true? Or is this just about the techno-freaks leaving the fold? We have seen this happen before (Compuserve,AOL,Napster,etc). It seems the migration is on in ernest ...

Can the Facebook Management actually say this (30 million NEW users and 120 million active users)or have they just gone mad? How many dummy accounts, accounts never used, etc. actually exist? As well, what is defined as active? Once a day posting or logging in or once a week? Seeing that they have logs for all accounts, then Facebook knows "exactly" how many accounts they have as well as what level of "active" they actually are. What are they? Should we go on?

What seems to be true is that it is the largest Social Network Platform in the world. All in the last 3 months.

notes:
Lot's of hype going on ... Marketing?
Capitalizing on the traffic should be possible if not easy. Transaction based model.

Reference:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10081341-2.html
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/12/14/advertising-on-social-networks-fail/

Forrest Ackerman - RIP 1916 - 2008

2008-12-08T18:16:00.009-05:00

Post:
I know this is a Technology blog but some might say or think that Science Fiction and Technology go hand and hand - by design. So we think about the news of the death of Forrest Ackerman in context and pause. A great creative thinker has left the earth.

end.

Is Twitter Dead?

2008-12-01T22:10:00.003-05:00

edited:
Noticable in the last 8-12 hours that Twitter has hit a saturation point ...
You now connect with relative strangers in an attempt to "brand" oneself.
What is the value? Is this value?

updated:

Martian Ice stories just keep coming ... Is Life far behind?

2008-11-20T21:29:00.013-05:00

Notes ...

I can't help but chuckle to hear and read the stories coming from NASA about water on Mars. We have now apparently documened "Glaciers" at the Martian mid-latitudes, something first observed by NASA's Viking orbiters in the 1970's. Considering just a few short years ago it was thought generally impossible for water to exist at all, one has to wonder where this is all going.

We'll try and keep on top of it ...

more...
Oceans on Mars?
http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Gamma_Ray_Evidence_Suggests_Ancient_Mars_Had_Oceans_999.html
Did an asteroid kill Mars' magnetic field?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27806478/

... Depicted in the 2004-2008 movie "Order of the Quest."

And of course we have the infamous Exoplanets that are now creeping in to our daily news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_d
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/20/1682394.aspx

What's next - contact?

Election User base ...

2008-11-05T22:39:00.013-05:00

notes:

We are not commenitng yet on "who" won the ratings game, but we can say for sure that this election "seals the deal" that "New Media" is a fact and that the Networks are now listed in the same breath as websites. What started in 2000 has landed in 2008.

notes:

Election Night ratings blowout: 71.5 million watch Obama win
(The Live Feed is James Hibberd's daily news site covering the television industry.)
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/election-rating.html

Election night draws record viewership
Led by ABC, the networks and cable channels were watched by 71 million.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ratings6-2008nov06,0,495759.story

TV Ratings: ABC Polls Highest on Election Night: Broadcast nets' overall numbers are down from 2004. Wed. November 05, 2008; Posted: 06:14 PM
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1998571/

CNN dominates broadcast, cable, and web "Users" / "Viewers" with huge increase in interaction since Campaign 2004 ...
In the 25-54 bracket, MSNBC was up 87 percent...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/05/cnn-dominates-election-night/

71.5 MILLION VIEWERS...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/election-2008-coverage

Election Night Ratings: ABC Wins Viewers, NBC Demos, CBS Nothing
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/11/05/election-night-ratings-abc-wins-viewers-nbc-demos-cbs-nothin/7649

updated:110508

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10082831-38.html?tag=mncol;posts

Russia nixes Googles bid to infiltrate national seach field

2008-10-31T10:33:00.004-04:00

pending:

The last European country where Google lags behind local search (advertising)competition ... http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=17201227

...

Rise of the Machines /// The Future is now.

2008-10-05T21:09:00.010-04:00

We have seen Robots in Sci-Fi for years and years.
We have seen Robots in the work place, we see them in War (Drones, Robots disarming Bombs), but now we see them at war with themselves ... Where does this lead us? Where is the interaction of Robots, Cybernetic Culture, and Biology? What is the state of future war - now? Ultrasonic signals (object Avoidance Systems)? The "Future Combat System" is now ...

notes:
Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Foster-Miller
Honda (ASIMO)
more ...

Ref:
http://www.robotdigest.com/node/339

George Negus Tonight:
http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_future/
http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_future/Transcripts/s616117.htm

File Under: Super Soldier and Using drugs for control.

2008-08-15T06:02:00.004-04:00

Notes: Project Future Warrior:

http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12177

end.

Notes: Exoplanet Systems ... 042808

2008-04-28T08:36:00.010-04:00

Notes ...

Currently, we do not have sufficiently sensitive techniques to detect Earth-mass planets, except in rare circumstances.

Further Research:

Exoplanet Exploration ... What are exoplanets?
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/astrophysics/exoplanet-exploration

Washington Double Star Catalog, the Catalogs of Nearby Stars, in Hipparcos results, and in Duquennoy & Mayor (1991).

http://arxiv.org

Habitability of Known Exoplanetary Systems Based on Measured Stellar Properties
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/506557

Al Qaeda Wages Electronic War against US Forces in Iraq

2007-08-17T20:45:00.000-04:00

Electronic War
Sniffing out bombs along roadsides is difficult. The fact that Insurgent forces were able to jam the anti IED sniffing device so quick shows a lot of sophistication and skill. Where are they safe to design such solutions? Surely, the model is mobile.

Clinton Rebuffs Liberal bloggers at Kos convention ...

2007-08-05T14:05:00.000-04:00

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

" CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main rivals with a rare defense of the special interest industry..."

"...A lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans, they actually do,” Clinton said, drawing boos and hisses from liberal bloggers at the second Yearly Kos convention."

What do you expect and why does this seem so out of sorts? I would suggest Clinton attack such Liberal bias with an ongoing web presence that is not so "cute." Interactive Immersion is the goal ...

The funny YouTube Video's are cool and all but what do they really accomplish? Not much ... They actually achieve the opposite ...

It's time for Senator Clinton to go on the WEB offensive ...

More soon ...

Keeping an Eye on Design ... 2.0 style is old school

2007-08-01T12:22:00.001-04:00

A recent article on C|NET said the following:

Consumers say they don't want to be encumbered by the complexity of the products they buy. Designers are responding with seamless blends of software, hardware, and aesthetics. Tech designs new philosophy.

Simplicity, Visualization, Personal connection, Beyond the browser, Beyond the browser.

Consumers say they don't want to be encumbered by the complexity of the products they buy.

I would venture to say that this has been apparent to the new breed of ID and IA's out there. Simply put - Keep it Simple has always been a request from the user.

Why now to make it happen?

Web 2.0 enticements for students

2007-07-31T10:31:00.000-04:00

C|Net reports that examples are coming out about students using Web 2.0 tools to enhance the classroom experience.

Hello. Those kids were using wiki, IM, SNS, etc. for some time before they even showed up to class .. Must make the teacher look old or at least a "wannabe."

We believe that the Web is a tool and has been for some time. That we had to wait for Web 2.0 is funny ...

Data mining has been going on forever ...

2007-07-30T18:19:00.000-04:00

What is going on here?
Why do we keep hearing about Famous tech types (what's that?) having it up to their ears that they are being Friended or Pinged to death?

And why are people so surprised that FaceBook and other Data Generating sites would actually not want to use the Data for as long as possible? At a minimum they are mining that data to maximize their own GUI and UI. With millions of active users, it is astounding what their Architects can come up with. Establishing an Advertising model, knowingly, is precisly what this site had in mind when they outlined and posted their Interface (website)from the start. Otherwise they would have made it easy to hide personnel information sooner. They are to good to have missed that for so long. They waited for user response before they acted.

The CNN / YouTube debate .. or is that the Google Debate?

2007-07-30T10:10:00.001-04:00

We are reading ...

YouTube video debate actually worked
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: July 23, 2007, 10:15 PM PDT

YouTube video debate actually worked

Why this is even in question is beyond me, but Citizen 2.0 has risen further from the darkness. The debate is now considered a "bellwether" in that the popular press and the general "feel" out there is that this was a success. It even looks like CNN is being dropped in the Press! Then again, if it had not been, the web as a political instrument would have been badly wounded.

It was not and very few knew it would not be.

TechRide ... Online ALL the time.

2007-07-27T13:34:00.000-04:00

We have been discussing the Candidates who have (off the record) been trying to manage the influx of debates and forums that have been presented to them by trying to limit the amount. This phenomenon is new; the citizen 2.0 demands interaction. Now.

Access such as this will diminish in the near future. We are in unprecedented times.

What would Benjamin Franklin say to this Open Source Democracy?

How can Candidates handle such requests in the future? Will they?

We will post the podcasts soon.