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 …

Vellum is a free download. You can use Vellum to import your manuscript, explore Book Styles, and see how your book will appear on a variety of devices. A purchase is only necessary when you’re ready to generate books.

There must be something about me at this time of the year .. apparently I first signed up with IFTTT six years ago! They even sent me a ‘happy birthday’ message this morning …

It’s been six years since you joined IFTTT on February 6, 2012.

… and then tried to give me some guidance on using the service more with some recommendations.

I have to say the 4 applets that they picked for me were neither relevant, interesting, clever or even unknown … you would have thought that with all the triggers and tracking that they have behind the scenes that they could have done a lot better with their personal recommendations.

For example they know the services I have connected to, how often my applets get triggered, how long they have been there … which is a clue to where I spend time, what I do and where my interests lie.

I have linked my 1999 site into Micro.Blog - so that if I publish something on River.BeyondBridges.net … the post finds it’s way into my Micro.Blog timeline.

So far so good.

Now what I want to do is pull all of the historical posts that are there into here (the public facing side of my Micro.Blog)

In other words …

A one off import of all the content at My River to John DOT Philpin

Onwards - I know there is help to be had somewhere.