OK …

• commit to pinboard … check
• import old deli.co.us tags for posterity … check
  • all 12,396 apparently … good grief!
• import Pocket history … check
• tie into Instapaper and Pocket … check
• publish the stream to a microblog page … check
• a tool bar short cut so I can push other stuff into the stream … check

Just so we can all see it

##Still To Do

• import Instapaper - snafu - ticket logged

Anything else?

John Lennon’s words came to my mind this morning driving on the 101 to a meeting.

Apparently Starbucks thought it was my birthday today ( it isn’t .. but that’s a different story). To celebrate the occasion I was offered a free ‘whatever I want’ to celebrate. So, totally out of the norm of my morning pattern, as I drove down the hill - I swung into the local Starbucks and ordered myself a check complementary Latte.

Fast forward to now as I write this post on my 📱 in the courtyard of a car wash I know. The car did need it - just been delaying it through some of the weather. Whilst getting it cleaned, they are also extracting one venti latte - less one sip - from the car’s carpet.

##Lessons

• there is no such thing as a free latte
• don’t pretend it’s your birthday
• stick to your routine

That’s all … enjoy your day … I’m going to … who knows maybe I just avoided a major accident resulting in my ability to even write this post!

Not my words … in fact, not sure whose they are … if I find out, I will come back and correctly attribute … until then …

Big data and machine learning (is) all oriented to one type of intelligence or a western view of intelligence. Mimic the brain, no heart. Instinct defined via algorithm. Maybe we struggle against this because deep inside we know its profoundly dysfunctional.

By the numbers there’s my driver’s license,
car registration, license plate, zip code,
various accounts, street address, birthdate
home, work, and cell phones, passport, credit cards
debit cards, PINs, social security
frequent fliers, internet passwords, stocks
checking, HMO, IRA, museums
library card, land and enneagram.
I know its a lot to remember, but
thank god i finally know who I am.

Jim Woessner - Box Poems

My own work right now is with Customer Commons, on terms each of us can assert, and that sites and services of the world can agree to: the exact reverse of what we’ve had since forever on the web. We’re getting help from law students at Harvard and elsewhere, but we need geek help too.

I believe making every user a Neo is not only do-able, but the most world-changing revolution since the industrial one, which was when subordinating personal power to the requirements of big business began.

Digital technology and the internet were designed for freedom, and not just for more enslavement on the industrial model. If you want to help make everyone a Neo, talk to me.

Or keep munching that blue pill.

Doc Searls : Editor Of Linux Journal

Full Article

Great read from the author of The Intention Economy.

Being of a certain generation … the existence of The Berlin Wall is very much part of the DNA of my memory. (Berlin itself - not so much … though I had reason to be in Berlin shortly after the fall of the wall.)

The Berlin Wall has been gone for longer than it existed, Deutsche Welle reported on Monday.

The wall was constructed in 1961 and kept Germans in the eastern side of the city from fleeing to the west after 3.5 million had left following World War II. It was up for 28 years, two months and 27 days.

Hard to believe that more time has passed since then than the very existence of that edifice (if that word is not too ‘honorary’ of such an abomination).

The Full Story on Deutsche Welle

Does anyone have any knowledge / experience / thoughts about Vellum?

##Later

Now - that is really interesting …

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