The Herd

Mmm... have to try a stream of consciousness type of article now. Too many thoughts in a jumble.

Where are internet developments going? The social web which was always there is like a herd. Some are in front, a lot in the middle and a few lag to the back. Others are like the grass in the landscape. Oblivious to any development at all.

Just as in a herd in nature the social technological herd is an ecosytem. Where even the dropping of the herd are fertilizer for other developments.

And so there are vultures and wolves who prey on the herd. They are not enemies though but part of the ecosystem. They clear the old, the frail and weak and develop their own ways of life.

A herd is a center of developments, a center on which all the other ecosystems thrive.

But to which watering hole is the internet herd going? Where is my herd going? Am I here for the ride in the herd? Not leading or following, just dipping in and out?

It is exhilirating to realize all the perspectives and connections. The view up high of the vulture, the view down below of the grass and dung, deep down into the earth. The crocodiles waiting in the water for fresh meat.

The newborn of the herd, their potential and zest for living. The struggle of the herd to get to the lifesaving water. The victory when the water has been reached.

I love my detached overall view. I love all participants in the herd ecosystem. I see what they do and I see how I can influence it. But should I? What will be the endresult and am I not arrogant to try to change the course of ages? It is not about I, it is about we, but my spirit is aloof, I can not be we. I can not be the collective.

It is the curse of man to appreciate natural developments and then to try and artificialy modify them for improvement. But have we really improved through our technological innovations? We are still the herd ecosystem relentlessy pursuing the same old paths to the water. It is all we know and all we can do. Even our imperfect striving for artificial perfect solutions is part of that natural cycle.

We like to think that we are higly individualzied in this modern time. With our screens and keyboards and ubiquitous connectedness. But nothing has changed. We are still part of a system. And we keep repeating the same patterns in different forms. Everything changes yet stays familiarly the same. Still we keep trying to surpass ourselves, while there is nothing to surpass. It is in the nature of the beast.


Positive developments, autonomous working. Gilds past, working by need not as production plant. Idea's generated for business personal use. JP essence publishing etc. My private thoughts shared publicly, am I communicating, is this static or dynamic? Intelligent or latest pseudo-intellectual brainfart? Thoreau, the growing dinosaur, once again chomsky, power deer herd management

In de maneschijn

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Jasmijn zingt In de maneschijn voor Bjarne.

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Pinnokkio

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Kleien

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Kleien aan de keukentafel.

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Afgelopen donderdag liet twitter blijken veel sneller te kunnen reageren op ontwikkelingen in het nieuws dan de reguliere media. Vooral de staatstelevisie van de NOS reageerde zeer traag op de ontwikkelingen. Het bleef vooral bezig met het vastleggen van man in de straat interviews. Ongeveer 100x: "Ja, ik stond erbij echt bizar." Echte verhelderend.

Via twitter en internet was veel sneller te achterhalen wat er was gebeurd. Dat het om een aanslag ging niet om een ongeluk. Dat het zeer ernstig was. Dat er eigenlijk geen coordinatie was wat betreft wat er moest gebeuren.

Ik was altijd wat sceptisch over de nieuwswaarde van twitter. Vooral omdat het ongelukken en rampen betrof. Als een vliegtuig neerstort of een aardbeving plaats vind vind ik dat niet interessant. Donderdag was heel interessant omdat we getuige waren van een door een mens bewust geplande daad.

Die conclusie was zeer snel te trekken. Binnen drie kwartier was dit duidelijk. En dit is de plek waar de reguliere media extra de bal laten liggen. Met internet, blogs en twitter is er geen zinvolle tijdsbesteding mer voor de oude dode bomen beelbuizen media wat betreft snelheid. Twitter etc. zijn sneller dan de grote media kanalen.

De gevestigde media moeten dus investeren in duiding. Echt onderzoeken en volgen wat er is gebeurd. Hoe kan een idioot in een klein kutautootje er zomaar doorheen crossen. Moeten er voortaan niet gewoon betonblokken oid neergezet worden? Dat vind ik relevanter dan weer eens de geijkte kaarsjes branden beelden die je ziet.

Maar dat is moeilijk, want nu komen de inkomsten nog door advertenties voor het tonen van het nieuws. Nieuws dat nu massa is en niet gepersonaliseerd. Via internet en twitter en Google is er met algoritmen en selecties dat te volgen wat ik wil volgen en de visies die ik van belang vind. Zelfs een geenstijl gaat ingehaald worden wat dit betreft.

Warren Buffet zegt nu ook al dat kranten dood zijn .Warren leest geen kranten meer. En dit is een meneer van 80 jaar oud. De dode meda moeten dus snel hun nieuwe positie vinden. Ben benieuwd wie de nieuwe grote jongens worden en wie tegen de vlakte gaan.

Oud Hollandsch leren.

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Groen, gezond en hoogopgeleid, dat is de toekomst, Obama's Change

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EXCERPTS OF THE PRESIDENT’S OPENING REMARKS AT TONIGHT’S NEWS CONFERENCE

[W]e’ve put in place a comprehensive strategy designed to attack this crisis on all fronts. It’s a strategy to create jobs, to help responsible homeowners, to re-start lending, and to grow our economy over the long-term. And we are beginning to see signs of progress.

The budget I submitted to Congress will build our economic recovery on a stronger foundation, so that we do not face another crisis like this ten or twenty years from now. We invest in the renewable sources of energy that will lead to new jobs, new businesses, and less dependence on foreign oil. We invest in our schools and our teachers so that our children have the skills they need to compete with any workers in the world. We invest in reform that will bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and our government. And in this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term – even under the most conservative estimates.

At the end of the day, the best way to bring our deficit down in the long run is not with a budget that continues the very same policies that have led to a narrow prosperity and massive debt. It’s with a budget that leads to broad economic growth by moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest.

That’s what green jobs and green businesses will do. That’s what a highly-skilled workforce will do. That’s what an efficient health care system that controls costs and entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid will do. That’s why this budget is inseparable from this recovery – because it is what lays the foundation for a secure and lasting prosperity.

We will recover from this recession. But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together; when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other – that’s when we succeed. That’s when we prosper. And that’s what is needed right now. So let us look toward the future with a renewed sense of common purpose, a renewed determination, and most importantly, a renewed confidence that a better day will come.