But what should be the buzz? Who are the bees? Who make honey? And, where is the Queen?
And, most of all, where is the nectar?
In some -scending order (ascending and descending order only focusing the numbers of the hives limits our view only to answer the questions departing from an arbitrary dimension considering the Greather Whole).
Sustainopreneur's Café
Sustainopreneur's Square
Social Networkers for Sustainability [informal]
Club2Club - Official
DJ Anders Updates
All are Groups of Facebook (4) or Community on Ning (1). They have been established by me, but co-created by us.
Now, this night ahead, adding some new juicy lands of milk and honey, to let them all flow, upwards and away, towards the common sky. Yes, I am talking about a new Group on Facebook.
Bee-Hive, Bee-Have :).
First part of subject line.
There are different items and platforms you can share whatever nowadays.
Nanoblogging for Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku etc.
Status reports on Twitter, Facebook etc.
Media sharing, dedicated on Flickr, YouTube, general on Tumblr etc.
"Linkblogging", or Social bookmarking through Del.icio.us, Magnolia, Blinklist, Facebook etc.
Blogging in general on Typepad, Wordpress etc.
Each of these comes with different social coding, and all can be streamed through an aggregated feed - FriendFeed, Lifestream on 30boxes.com etc. And you have it in your browser client on Flock.com.
Nowadays, also on client side outside your browser, such as Twhirl and Alert Thingy.
Now, more than ever, you need to be aware of the social code and the attention span. Thus, together, to keep and develop your social graph to leverage your intentions and make a change, lasting. What attention do you consume?
140 characters maximum for the status updates and Twitter?
The same for description of media and comments on social bookmarking?
Blogging up to 500 words?
And when aggregated enough regards content, theme, insight and thread/plot, and documented enough by then, push a Wiki for editing a book, and then take it to Blurb for self-published book?
That much for the opening questions related to the first part of the subject line.
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Now to the second part of the subject line.
The one's you care to follow, and the one's you appreciate the sharing, is what matters, and what defines your character, your aspirations, your intentions.
And, I believe, if you follow beyond 150 people, it goes astray.
But that's me.
You?
I (and others) have experienced an increasing of followers on my Twitter stream/account that does nothing else than get my nano-attention once: Seeing that their updates only contain a product/service they want to transact, and me to act. I build relations, not transactions, on Twitter. Sharing most important stuff. How to deal with the least important stuff coming from anonymous strangers who wants you to buy stuff you don't want or need? Yeah, I know I can block them immediately, and I can also set a lock on my account, but I do not want to do that, in the age of transparency. How can we even stop their action? Twitter becomes commonplace more and more, and turns e. g. into a default IM system for those who do not want to be having a regular IM client, with the Twhirl interface.
So.
In other words: How to deal with Twammers? (twitter plus spam)
[note: This post tagged #43tools, meaning it is relevant to one of three main professional strands of interaction represented of my three main pro-blogging action, see my Vox profile and statement for guidance - and this is also the first post tagged #rotd - 'reflection of the day', in my attempt to build up a default GTD next/action every day: daily blogging :) ]
And in the magic moments of joy and feeling 'being on right track' in the deeds this spring, this tunage has soundtracked the moments.
In short.
Pure joy.
Period.
The official release of all the Elements of Life Remixed tracks closing up - end of April.
Brilliant communication of complexity, turned into the format of simplicity. Animation.
To change the systems illustrated towards sustainability - how do we go about and where do we begin?
Maybe with you.
While at it, the video is from the Electronica Act from Norway, Royksopp. A Bonus video of the Day shared with the same group, live from Molde in Norway. Alpha Male. Massive multimediality, here we have neither simplicity nor complexity. Just a massive spirit.
Enjoy!
Why should you count the retrospective?
Habits are the one's that you do not count how many times in life you have done them. Extra-ordinary events are the one's that you can count few-of-a-lifetime.
Talking to the phone.
Brushing your teeth.
Personal Vox-Blogging.
Getting married.
Being a parent.
Getting divorced.
Some three evey-dayers. Maybe. In training.
Followed by three extraordinaries. Definitely.
From OED Word of the Day;
[< PERSONAL adj. + SPACE n.1; app. partly after German personaler Raum (W. Stern Studien zur Personwissensch.
1. a. The region within which a person or animal habitually moves and with which he, she, or it becomes familiar.
b. The physical space immediately surrounding a person which is felt to be his or her own, and into which encroachment is likely to produce feelings of unease or hostility. Also in extended use; esp. opportunity to be alone and unpressured.
2. A private space that a person can regard as his or her own, or for his or her personal belongings.
Rises a reflective question: Is this blog a personal space?
Virtuality stretches the concept of space...
From OED WotD:
[In sense 1 < TEXT n.1 + -ING suffix1. In sense 2 < TEXT v. + -ING suffix1.]
1. Music. The alignment of notes with syllables in notations of vocal music; the relationship of notes and syllables in a vocal performance. hist.
1955 Acta Musicologica 27 33 Only at ‘Salva Nos’ (Sorbonne) is the straightforward statement of the chords weakened by an ornamentation and confused in the texting. 1990 R. CROCKER in R. Crocker & D. Hiley Early Middle Ages to 1300 vii. 246 The texting of the verse-melisma uses acclamatory wording to reflect the repetitive aspects of the melodic figuration. 1999 Early Music 27 325/2 His many published editions of early polyphony were long regarded as too eccentric for serious consideration.., with texting presented precisely as in the sources without any attempt to make them ‘singable’.2. The action or practice of sending text messages from one mobile phone to another. Cf. TEXT MESSAGING n.
1999 Business World (Philippines) 22 Jan. 33/1 Texting has become so popular that it introduced a convenient new communication channel. 2000 Elle Sept. 58/1 When involved in a texting or e-mailing rally, try not to be the last to send a message. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Jan. I. 1/5 [He]..loves to send and receive pithy text messages via cellphone... He often prefers texting over talking on his cellphone.
Interesting. First "texting" is associated to bridge text and music (where I actually have my main media of expression in both professional and private routes). Then it moves in main meaning over time to the SMSed life.
Etymonline Dot Com gives
- text
- 1369, "wording of anything written," from O.Fr. texte, O.N.Fr. tixte (12c.), from M.L. textus "the Scriptures, text, treatise," in L.L. "written account, content, characters used in a document," from L. textus "style or texture of a work," lit. "thing woven," from pp. stem of texere "to weave," from PIE base *tek- "make" (see texture).
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Text-book is from 1779."An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns -- but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the written page a textus, which means cloth." [Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style"]
"thinking an Elevator Pitch should be maximum 140 chars to fit in a tweet, a Facebook linkshare auto-text and Google Grasped Page Descriptor"
Challenge: How to describe a Club Concept in less than 140 chars?
Example - from a page source file soon near you;:)
<meta name="description" content="Dance events in Joy of Life EDM spirit with up-and-rising Swedish and International talent DJ's and producers - Trance / Progressive." />
I had an aspiration to kick off some new habits in life when I introduced XotD's [fillinthebrackets] of the Day - as a way to rutinize Daily Blogging.
A friend of mine had a message, reconstructed as I took it (not remembering the exact words, but the way I received and transformed it making it "mine") - "better to keep a habit to write when you can deliver quality - producing quantity times one every day can override the quality". Maybe I listened to hard to him, maybe the computer I use is to slow and with a (com)pressed time/life situation not "having" time/space (www.flybook.biz - the first Latte Computer generation anno 2005 with child's diseases and slow processor), maybe something else came in-between this habitulization attempt and my life.
More than anything - I take responsibility for my own action.
And thus, the third is to "blame".
Or a cause found.
It is within. If the spirit has no room, if your expected energy level of a day is not enough, if you can't do it systematically, don't do it. It is within - i. e. within your skin.
So - I prioritized returning to the Dojo, full fledged, all out, to get my posture up once and for all. In January, www.aikidodojo.nu, where last time Thursday was me - and only Dan Graders black belts...
In retrospect, my road towards 5 kyu Iwama Ryu May 22, 2008, seemed and seems to be the companion to Get the Balance Right (thanks Depeche Mode for another association in the Soundtrack of Life).
And in short - that was the way I managed to do what is concentrated and summarized in the Subject Line. The full story behind that Subject Line goes beyond 500 words, so I cannot keep that to a blog that I intend to have for shorter personal notes, a bit transparent, a bit quirky, a bit sublime, a bit subtile, and very much "me" - where I am a result of memory of past and contemporary history filled with social constructions. And this, implicitly, marks my step into the return of the XotD. Beginning slowly with at least one of the three suggested X-es at every day/time of posting.
Sunday morning this time. But I think maybe a morning and an evening posting makes two the option. Word. Music. Where I see the ID tag storytelling to start when I actually have some readers more than now - readers who actually care - since they refer to some attempt to grasp my "identity" to the level I can communicate it and actually be somewhat understood.
It's hard to be an "authentic anomaly" in a life within a society with so many man-made maelstroms I have to avoid in order to survive all levels. And, survival is not enough. I want to live.
Fully.
Done so far. Doing it all the time. And intend to Do for a long time to come.
Until my mission this time is over. 2050+ at least. Preferrably beyond 2066 - I actually want to be over hundred years old. Which places mind/spirit/body health and balance in focus and center of your life and behavior.
I better keep that twice-a-week Aikido training to sustain it in order to fulfil that aspiration and intention :).
And maybe a daily word, a song and an explanation of my identity tags when the space and room is there.
Every day actions and every week routines are the things affecting our individual and collective life streams - you and togetherness of we - sustained. Take care of the small things (especially babies :), and you will see and experience the biggest of all, Larger than Life.
Love.
