The WELL: inkwell.vue.248: Jon Lebkowsky, "Extreme Democracy"

#87: It's a new sun to me (nukem777) Thu 4 Aug 05 18:16

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:16:00 PDT

yup, given the restrictions Homeland Security is putting on our use of technology we are going to become the gardeners and maids of cyberspace...pathetic. If you even want to use a freakin' mobile phone to full capacity you have to go to Europe or Japan, it's ridiculous. Given the speed of technological development that frog dust is going to become a desert real soon.

Ooops, 2006. [Read entire topic]

#86: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Thu 4 Aug 05 11:58

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:58:00 PDT

Is that the fall of 2096? :)

> we are wasting a valuable resource > and it is going to come > back to haunt us

Interesting problem: we were leading the world in technology, but now we're bogged down in legacy systems and the attendant bureaucracies; meanwhile other, less encumbered parts of the world are leapfrogging and leaving us in the dust (if frogs leave dust). [Read entire topic]

#85: It's a new sun to me (nukem777) Tue 2 Aug 05 10:08

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:08:00 PDT

I'm a grandfather, as of Sunday, July 24 at 1045am...Reagan Jane Quinn, 7 lbs, 2 oz, 19", black hair, eye color to be determined. I am relocating to the Phoenix area, where my daughter lives, in order to properly spoil my grandchild.

Turned in a PhD proposal for my Philosophy professor, where I got my M.A. on the historical development of eudaemonia and how the theme of joy was picked up by Paul and developed in the New Testament thru to the Summa Theologica. Might be a bit too much for Claremont Graduate University.

Collaborating on a web project and e-book re: ElderCare for the Baby Boomer generation and its impact on our laughable health care system.

Writing my own book, loosely based on my loose life to date.

Developing content for Sirius to provide an hour to two hour long syndicated show for them with a friend of mine...this has been 4 years in the making and looks like it is finally going to come to fruition, we'll see.

Kind of resurrecting an old company of mine, RapidTransfer, which is a consulting firm for systems integration and assisting start-ups in their web launch...like a lot of people I got burned out by the sheer total idiocy of corporate so-called management and their inability to 'get it' and just put it back in the box and walked away from it....I actually think that is a growing problem in this country - the amount of talent that is walking away from the whole tech field in complete disgust; we are wasting a valuable resource and it is going to come back to haunt us down the yellow cyberbrick road (pun on China there).

Still waiting on my relative's guy to get it together regarding the internet....they seem to think that since the actual vote doesn't take place until Fall of '96 there is no immediacy...and his nephew, the one in charge of developing the internet campaign, is still apparently trying to find his computer....aargh, it is all just too much to get concerned about...they either get it or they don't...I'll let my cousin take one more shot with them and then leave them to figure it out.

Doing some blues harmonica recording for a couple of albums, just laying down tracks for other peoples forthcoming debuts...very enjoyable, but I won't let them use my name, just a nickname, so no one knows about it and I don't get sidetracked...

That's about it...casual life, thanks to the Web...you can do just about anything, at your own pace, from just about anywhere....

The one downside of all this activity is that I don't get much time to hang out and read and interact with all the WELL conferences I used to be more actively involved in...and, as a consequence, I don't get to keep up with and encourage so many other great people and the things they are doing here on the WELL and in the hinterlands.

Hopefully, once I'm settled in Phoenix, I can get back into some kind of rhythm...

That's probably way more than you wanted to know, and I probably misunderstood your question, but there you have it.

What's up with you these days? What are you involved in now? [Read entire topic]

#84: virtual community or butter? (bumbaugh) Tue 2 Aug 05 06:46

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 06:46:00 PDT

Where are things going next, <nukem777>? What's on the horizon? [Read entire topic]

#83: It's a new sun to me (nukem777) Mon 1 Aug 05 19:08

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:08:00 PDT

no doubt, that's about all this fellow does is raise money...the website is almost a fallback place for him to spell out his positions and ideas and try and communicate issues while his meetings with single-focused groups is all about "what can you do for us?". [Read entire topic]

#82: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Mon 1 Aug 05 13:56

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:56:00 PDT

I guess I put some of those interviews together when I was a host of inkwell, and was following my own interests. I was actually worried that we were doing too much of one thing, but you could fill a lot of inkwell slots with those kinds of discussions... there are so many people thinking in this realm at the moment.

Political campaigns are still more about money than connecting with constituents, I'm afraid, but we can all hope that'll balance out. [Read entire topic]

#81: It's a new sun to me (nukem777) Sun 31 Jul 05 17:40

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:40:00 PDT

great pointer, by the way, thanks.

The problem i face, with the 'old school' is their starting point...why do I need a website, what good is it, how will it really affect my campaign? Etc. Basically from scratch...good questions tho, which make you think and shape the existing technologies or create new ones to actually make it all be a servant for their particular needs. great work if you can get it and a lot of fun to be a part of it all.

You guys are so ahead of the political curve as to how technology can assist in a modern campaign. I've got a lot of catching up to do....the Inkwell.vue interviews this year have really followed out a nice track in this regard -- with social collaboration, the future, future frequencies, etc. Don't know if that has been intentional, if I'm just going with the flow, or being adaptive to my own situation, but it has been something special... [Read entire topic]

#80: It's a new sun to me (nukem777) Sun 31 Jul 05 17:34

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:34:00 PDT

LOL, that's coming, no doubt....today's bloggers strike me as Patrick Henrys (only because the New York Times Book Review did an article on him today)...their sense of urgency over the political realities of the day force them to their keyboards...as the search engines and RSS feeders continue to make them more widely read and heard, it will be inevitable that some of them will run, or be run, for office....all to the good of the Republic i think. [Read entire topic]

#79: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sun 31 Jul 05 13:31

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:31:00 PDT

Thanks, Ted! Looks like many or most campaigns are adopting new technologies, though some are more adventurous than others. Some candidates are blogging (like Steve Urquhart from Utah, http://www.steveu.com/blog/), but I'm still looking for a state- or national-level candidate who was a blogger first. [Read entire topic]

#78: It's a new sun to me (nukem777) Fri 29 Jul 05 22:07

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:07:00 PDT

Fantastic discussion, great book and superb inputs for new ideas in the emerging technology and software as applied to political networks.

Post #70 is a sweet one Jon, thanks for that...I'm presently consulting for the internet portion of someone's run for the Senate from Rhode Island, his internet campaign can use all of these thoughts and more, especially as Joe Trippi has just thrown his talents toward one of our competitors....the more the merrier, the process just gets that many more people awake and involved and right now that's what it's all about. [Read entire topic]