Escapable LogicDesign Study for a New MicroEconomy(Untitled)- May 26, 2006 Once More, into the Shitstorm I'm leaving tonight for a peaceful vacation in Ireland, starting with a week in Dublin and then onto a carbike meander to Cork, where I'll enjoy a pleasant Bloggers dinner and drink in the wisdom of Shel Israel and Salim Ismail (shades of Skinny Legs and All!) at the refined Web 2.0 Half Day Conference, under the auspices of the (presumably) genteel Cork Regional Network for IT Professionals. What a delicious prospect. I'm ready to be embraced by the graces...http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2006/05/26.html#a403 (Untitled)- May 24, 2006 So Crazy it Just Might Work . . . A Proposal for the Open Capital Corporation ("OCC") Our little company, Open Resource Group, LLC, is obviously based on opening up resources to an enterprise that it might otherwise not be able to tap into. By "enterprise," I mean any project that has a vision, a mission, a plan and is ready to start executing the plan. The Open Source Software movement has taught us that a project no longer requires a formal organization, so "enterprise" does not even mean...http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2006/05/24.html#a402 (Untitled)- May 21, 2006 Week of the Doc Doc Searls was here most of the week, hanging out at the 43rd Street Headquarters for Contrary Thinking. The weather was gnarly, so it's a good thing he got some great photos when he was here two weeks earlier. Free Entry We had a great dinner Sunday night, as described by Doc and Adam Fields. Both point to my mention of a bedrock economic principle that has fallen on such hard times that they both were struck by the concept when I mentioned it. From Wikipedia: Free entry is a...http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2006/05/20.html#a401 (Untitled)- May 3, 2006 3rd Party or 3rd Rail My friend and ORG board advisor, Micah Sifry, riffs on a Thomas Friedman column suggesting that the stage might be set for a 3rd political party. In fact, Friedman is partly riffing on Micah, quoting him in his NYTimes PayWall column. Dissatisfaction with the Dems and the GOP is not surprising. When you've been serially dating two people for years and can't stand either one, your eye is sure to wander. Micah points out, citing Ross Perot in 1992, Could it happen...http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2006/05/03.html#a400 (Untitled)- May 3, 2006 Up YOur Rectitude! I was hanging out with Doc in Santa Barbara the day after the UCSB CITS Forum on Digital Transitions, when he threw away one of his many throwaway lines. "Most people go wrong because they fall in love with their own rectitude. It keeps them from being practical." Our usual scatological riffs began, so I immediately labeled him: Doc Searls, Practicologist I'm not sure what kind of scope we can use to peer up each other's rectitudes, but we sorely need one. In Sunday's...http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2006/05/02.html#a399 |