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Thank you @bradenslen
Is there a discord or something similar for MicroBlog thatI have missed - or does it all happen on the Help site?
Should we declare ourselves a networked state? A Balaji Srinivasan concept.
A Substack with bundles of links : 🔗 Digital Countries are the Next New Thing
Who’s already started : 🔗 The Network State Dashboard
The Book : 🔗The Networked State Book (free and downloadable)
Who cares?
🔗 Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World is a new book by Malcolm Harris.
He talks about it on this podcast 🎙️The Dark History Of Silicon Valley with Sean Illing.
Oh my!
Not to generalize to all techies - and of course - none of you in here … but it’s not just about being too smart to be sexists #discuss
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Wherever you go in the world, New Zealand, Scotland, Austin Texas, Raleigh North Carolina, Hyderabad, Shenzhen …. pretty much anywhere, you will find there are tech centers. Tech centers that often adopt ’Silicon’ or ‘Valley’ or variations on such in their names, but there are many more. The local government will often declare they are investing and building a tech center of excellence to ‘rival’ Silicon Valley. Except they aren’t. Let me explain.
It has occurred to me that while I have been posting to this blog at the rate of knots, this blog has been not feeling the love. I have some thoughts on how to fix that. I am going to try the first idea for a while and see what happens. Stand by!
🚧 Not sure what the plan is … or even if there is a plan … but I would vote from some more thought into how pages work on Micro Blog. Everything works just fine for a handful, but I am now over 20 and counting. It is starting to get hard to keep track of them with just a list;
- which pages belong together❓
- nested in the menu❓
- is it showing on the menu or not❓
My kluge is to use emojis
… but emojis in the page title do not consistently show up on the site. See this compared to this for example - and yes - not yet fully consistent with
- my page URL naming convention
- pages that seek to help in some category promotion
🚧 New Zealand | The JigSaw
I popped in a couple of posts recently that are part of what I am naming the ‘New Zealand Jigsaw’. This post is one of my ‘living posts’ that will serve as the gateway to the full set, once they are all published - and assuming that I can publish faster than I can think of more topics.
Introduction
Ardern Resigns - Hashtag
Colbert Monologue
Compared To Iceland
Compared To The United States of America
Compared To The United Kingdom
Conversations
- with Anna
- with Mitchell
Crossing The Chasm
Investing
NZTE
Why You Can't So Easily Replicate Silicon Valley
Wherever you go in the world, New Zealand, Scotland, Austin Texas, Raleigh North Carolina, Hyderabad, Shenzhen …. pretty much anywhere, you will find there are tech centers. Tech centers that often adopt ’Silicon’ or ‘Valley’ or variations on such in their names, but there are many more. The local government will often declare they are investing and building a tech center of excellence to ‘rival’ Silicon Valley. Except they aren’t. Let me explain.
There are so many things in 🔗 this article by Dana F. Blankenhorn that I have highlighted, that had I spent time calling them out, well, you might just as well have clicked through to read it.
It pretty much opens with;
He (Ali) held his forearms against his body and let George Foreman punch himself out. Ali won in the 8th round.
It ends with;
“In this way Joe Biden is the most consequential President of the 21st century.”
Two minute read. Days of thought.
February 17th.
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The 🔗 Beckn protocol “allows you to create open and decentralized digital ecosystems”. So far, the word ‘blockchain’ is mentioned nowhere (that I have found). I also haven’t found how it handles ‘identity’ before it facilitates a transaction, though it says it does ‘identify each other’ but I’m not sure that is the same thing?
Can anyone share their experiences. It looks really interesting from a ‘People First’ perspective.
Extracts from their world …
identify each other and perform transactions with each other without the need for a central intermediary
Beckn Protocol is an open commerce protocol with an abstract core, which is enabling market players to reimagine building seamless digital experiences and networks. This is very similar to how HTTP, while being a simple and open protocol has fueled seamless interaction between multiple systems and led to an explosive growth in internet adoption.
The beckn community is an open community. So, no registrations. No memberships. No partnerships. Just a minimal footprint of an open and equally accessible Beckn Protocol that anyone can use. Multiple businesses and organizations have started using beckn protocol to fuel their digital acceleration. The credo of being an open protocol creates a level-playing field for any market player, small or large.