Matthew Gifford

The Gillmor Gang A podcast something like the Gillmor Gang returns!

Via Gabe

AT&T has figured out that shipping 300+ page itemized phone bills to customers costs too much money.

I hope I get some significant stretches of time today to write some code. Not only because I missed a day of work after a miserable weekend and have some catching up to do. But because new albums by Architecture in Helsinki and Caribou were released this morning.

The 20th Century Fox-based production entity is close to a deal with the Mark Gordon Co. to adapt “Voltron: Defender of the Universe” into a live-action film.

Awesome! (via Slashdot)

• phase shift
• paradigm shift
• pshift happens
  • in its own good time
  • whether we like it or not
  • sometimes you see it coming
• When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Max Planck
• logs -> wheels
• material & mass -> function
• financial industry hasn’t moved past logs
• the general condition
  • it comes, it goes
  • when it’s gone, it’s gone
  • it doesn’t come back
• trickling down, pouring away
• in a closed network
  • large or small
  • measure in any unit
  • rules as agreed
• paying it
  • off (out)
  • back (stop)
  • forward (away)
  • round (round)
• quasi-tribal economy
• if 1 tribe, why not 2, 3, 4 …
• neo-tribalists do it with requisite variety
• distributed
• open code (of course)
• open standards
• community currencies (cc)
  • not replacements or alternatives
  • used with, not instead of $
  • tax accountable, where tax applies
  • open, not public
  • not in competition with anything
  • not impeded or in conflict
  • business friendly
  • persistent loyalty
  • income not discount
  • SMB advantage over LB, XLB & XXLB
• markets are conversations, money is the medium
• conventional money carries one way, open money carries in others
• open money is to normal as a laser is to a flashlight
• Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
  • perception is reality
  • no persistent local success
  • no software to reach long tail
• identities name accounts
• names grouped in domains, recursive to n levels
• open money ontology
  • accounts
  • currencies
  • flows
  • contexts
  • mesh of linked URIs
• rubyom.openmoney.info
  • cloud of records
  • cloud of knowing
• where it matters
  • food security - 100 mile diet
  • co2 accounting
  • 3rd world development
  • funding open networks
• variety to match the challenges
• omdg - open money development group
  • virtual corporate
  • would work faster with support
  • contributions are welcome
• money is virtual, start designing it as if it were
• money is the social network, but the network sucks

• How the internet is being destroyed by selfish polluters–and how we can stop them
• SEO is destroying the web
• Talks about Mahalo’s solution
• I can’t believe no one asked about Jimmy Wales’ project! I wanted to, but the mic didn’t get around to me.

• 35 million people in US are 65 or older
• 70 million by 2030
• Demonstrates difficulty of using the computer when old by using gardening gloves and blurry glasses
• When you get older
  • You lose feeling in your hands
  • White text on black background is hard to read
  • Red and orange are difficult to differentiate
  • etc.
• Only 9000 geriatricians in the US
• Blogging requires active and passing thinking that helps maintain brain activity
• http://www.immersionactive.com/carolsweb/
• Chris handed her an iPhone. She felt the UI was easy enough.
• I suggested he show her the keyboard. She tried using it and said she would not use an iPhone.

I think Chris is going to have to change the name of his conference. My iPhone insists that Gnomedex is a misspelling of Gnomesex.

As I did with OSCON, I’m going to try to post my Gnomedex notes. Also as before, their usefulness to you will vary. I’m going to try my hardest to post my own thoughts about what’s going on, as well.