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Today I am driving down to Transparency Camp http://transparencycamp.org/ in Arlington Virginia. 

"TransparencyCamp is an “unconference” for opengov: an event where, each year, journalists, developers, technologists, policy-makers, government officials, students, academics, wonks, and everyone in between gather to share their knowledge about how to use new technologies and policies to make our government really work for the people -- and to help our people work smarter with our government."

After years of distracting myself with hard work, I happend to stumble across this wikipedia article thanks to Alex Drake.  Knowing how and why you are having certain thoughts and desires is important because it will give you "level ground" to analyze your actions from.  There are many different types of personalities.  Some of them are purposefully induced through reptition, others naturally form over time and evolve with increased interaction.

Drupal now has over 10,000 modules!  10,000+ quick & easy add-ons to enhance the features of your Drupal setup.  It is amazing how far the community has come.  My position in the community is not necessarily a coder or a business consumer.  Rather I am a manager of modules.  I seek to learn about every single module & exactly how those modules work together.  Instead of wasting time custom coding I assume that the features are already being developed by the community.  If I find a similar feature, I will submit issues to enhance that feature to have the ideal composition.  Long-term being a Manager of Modules is the ideal position to be in the community.  Up until May 2011 I had knowledge of nearly

Custom Formatters on Drupal.org
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Within the last 12 hours I contacted the creator of the Custom Formatters module for Drupal trying to find out if there was a centralized place for Custom Formatters & I offered to make one if there wasn't.  .  Stuart informed me that there was not currently a place, and that he was too busy to build one.  The idea of using Drupal.org was floated, but it doesn't have the level of filtering that we will need for this project.  The goal of this project is to reduce repeated work among the Drupal community.  Saving people time and making society more efficient.  Custom Formatters is going to be one of the primary ways to display data on quite possibly the top feature-filled cms for years to come.

How to kill cooperation

  1. Interpreting facts presented to you by others as opinions & not doing further research to solidify your point of view (or actively avoiding determining the best solution out of alternatives as identified by opportunity cost)
  2. Interpreting questions as accusatory statements, then responding to the fact that a perceived accusatory statement was made, instead of just answering the question

 

I am tired of facts being labeled as “opinions.”

I am tired of questions being turned into perceived accusative statements.

This is one of many upcoming blog posts which will analyze how the human mind works and why. Upon trying to establish various cooperative efforts, I have run into many road blocks.  The road blocks are not coming from the ideas, they are coming from the people that are unwilling to accept or apply these ideas.  Identifying WTF was wrong with these people (who had solutions to their problems lying in front of their face, yet they chose not to apply them) has become one of my primary focuses.  I would rather avoid analyzing these problems, but I feel that they are far too wide spread to be ignored.  If humanity at large does not get over these weaknesses, then our true potential will be greatly limited.

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This is an unedited strategy paper I wrote back in 2008 for a business class @ UB.  Not much has changed, but some has, due to certain things becoming possible that were not possible in the past.  Please feel free to leave some comments, suggestions or maybe share some strategies of your own.

 

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Your food should not be interferred with.  What you choose to consume should not be regulated.  If what you consume causes you to harm others then there is laws for dealing with such behaviors. 

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I recently came across this post on reddit & instantly became inspired.  Everyone should check out this organization!

The following excerpt is taken from the about us page: http://ahumanright.org/blog/about/

Imagine a future where everyone on earth has a voice.

MISSION:
The mission of ahumanright.org is to improve the human condition by advocating for and safeguarding global access to information as a human right. We serve to facilitate mans ability to contribute and access knowledge, to further mankind’s ability to receive, seek and impart information and ideas.

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