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Halley, I was watching the Strongest Man competition (surfing again...) And while my favorites, Svend Karlsen (Norway), and Magnus Sameulsson (Sweden) did not win... These men are all really Alpha males! I mean pulling a traincar filles with steel, and lifting large rounds spheres onto 5 foot phalluses! That's alpha baby. And to your previous post these guys were also lifing cartloads of beer kegs (800lbs at a time). You're a blond - wouldn't you be attracted (just physically for a day or so) to a guy whose back muscles were larger than your quads! Needless to say, I was impressed! I like this address referencing the competition - http://www.theweakgeteaten.com/Resources/wsm.htm ======================================= Alpha Male Olympic Gold Medal Winner. Alpha Male Olympic Gold Medal WinnerWow, I wanna meet the guy that married Britney. How the heck did he pull that one off??? [Halley's Comment]
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Upcoming event: Ryze Boston Business Networking Mixer at Caveau. Ryze's business networking events are launching in a bunch of new cities this year including Boston. I'm organizing the Ryze... [Sooz]
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"... I can imagine a system layered on top of this that said "if you like talkint to this person (being in this group), maybe you'd like talking to these people as well." -- Julian Bond What a great idea - not sure how it'll work. So far on LinkedIn and Ryze, you can see degree of connection (e.g. FOAF) and that can lead me to think, gosh, I know someone that I like, and so I'll like their friends. In fact I have not always found this to be true. Sometimes I like their friends, sometimes I find that they are USEFUL friends (e.g. business contacts), but sometimes, I just don't understand why someone whose company I truly enjoy is hanging out with people that I find unbearable... So, something that relies on more detailed (self-reported as in Ryze or Friendster or LinkedIn) info could be helpful. Recently I tried to look through a set of people on Friendster who listed music they listen to. Geez I am OLD! But now I have about 10 people I don't know that have ID'd a bunch of bands I don't know. So by listening a bit, I can get a feel for people who respond to music like I do (at least on a couple dimensions). I have almost zero interest in finding people who respond to political issues as I do. Probably because I don't always want to here reinforcing information, but instead want to hear and evaluate very different ideas when presented. So then you want some kind of debate formula. Or some kind of bridging activity. Finally, the concern with this automatic Amazon-like suggestion process is that it will have a power law effect. A handful of people will end up as archetypal connectors along some interesting dimension. 70's music, Cyberpunk, Dean bloggers, Re-elect Bush Republicans, Trading-Spaces TV lovers, etc. Now they may have interesting things to say along these dimensions, and they may be prolific. But are they really the multidimensional people I want to spend time with. Are they the one dimensional people I want to spend time with... Just don't know.
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201 6:56:50 PM
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Automatic generation of metadata may be more accurate, but it might also reveal things that you don't want to have revealed. What is the Plancks's Constant of social networks. Fascinating corrolary - according to M-theory (Witten's version of Membrane, or string theory), there are seven additional dimensions that are curled up within the Planck's distance and thus not measurable to us in perceivable spacetime. But nevertheless, these other dimensions are real and necessary for things to behave as they appear to in empirical reality. So... in Social Network space, there are hidden dimensions that are implicit in the fabric of reality. But they are hidden - and cannot be revealed to an external observer. Or, perhaps, when they are - the enchantment is broken (to borrow from an earlier theme), and the relationship is irrevocably changed. ======================================= The Heisenberg uncertainty of social networks. One of my New Year's resolutions is to open up this weblog to a wider audience. So on first mention of something obscurely technical, I'll try to define it. Today's obscurely technical topic: FOAF. ... [Jon's Radio]
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200 6:42:23 PM
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Quick link to the Mars program mission site! Scary thing, watching with my wife and daughters, was that these people (mission manager, program people etc) are my age (or younger!). Absolutely fantastic. I would love to be there on that team today! Four years ago - would have been really painful, but it makes today all the sweeter! Can you imagine what will happen if they actually find life? I would think abundant (yes a relative term) reserves of water (BTW most 90+% of Earth's water is locked up in ice!) in the polar ice caps, and any kind of microbe or... dare I say... fossilized creature... I can imagine a push for a manned mission to Mars! Then, what about the religio-philisophical implications of actually finding that we are not the only place in the universe. Oh, it might feel commonplace enough for all of us blogger types who grew up watching trek and playing with technology, but for most of the population of the earth, this will rattle some foundations. I read a rather interesting bit in Bill Bryson's "Short History of Everything" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767908171/qid=1073252937//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/103-3070646-8559848?v=glance&;s=books&n=507846) that described the history of life on earth as being as wide as the span of your arms, and that by taking a nail file and making one swipe at your fingernail, you would eliminate the entire history of homo sapiens... Now with some people believing that the earth was Created a few thousand years ago, life on Mars would be pretty cool and quite a shock! God, I hope it happens - a few more minds need to be blown into the 21st century!
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199 4:57:38 PM
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I find that blogging is on my mind more than my blog entries would show. Have not written in over a month... Worse, I've not looked at the agregator. Where are my thoughts slipping to.
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