Isms Make Mine Freedom

Today as we look forward to "Health Care Reform" we take the time to look back to 1948.

Transparency and Open Government

Forum from Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forum

3.
a. used to mean a public meeting, a lecture involving audience discussion
b. a program (as on radio or television) involving discussion of a problem usually by several authorities

The Southern California Transit Forum was held Friday, February 5, 2010 an all day affair live streamed from Chapman University in Orange. The topic "Seeking Solutions To Address The State Transit Crisis."

For Transit Forum Update Click Here

We were invited to participate in the forum, to Tweet out to our followers information on the event and invite them to join in the conversation.

I was invited to a forum.
I was invited to be part of an audience and was asked use a #hashtag.
I was asked to have my followers join the conversation by using the same #hashtag.
But I wasn't represented.
My Tweets didn't show up in the Forum.
To me this was not a Transparent Forum

What is Transparent?

If you are going to use a #Hashtag ... then don't filter it at the forum, especially don't filter invited representatives from Social Media.

#Hashtags are an online convention that everyone might not be familiar with. At conferences and events when Twitter Streams are projected onto the screen by hashtags it is the audience being allowed to participate and share in the event without interrupting the event.

Hashtags can be abused and it is not unusual for Tweets to be monitored. Threats, foul language and inappropriate items are often siphoned off. But when it goes any farther in this it starts to look like censorship at worse and manipulation at best. Neither would be described as "Transparent."

From my observations the Twitter stream shown in the Forum and the one online differed tremendously and profoundly. New posts were streaming into Twitter while the stream within the Forum repeated and looped the same Tweets.

Audience Participation

If you are going to take questions from YouTube.com I want to see where they are posted? Where are these questions you are drawing from? I want the urls. I want to see it FROM YOUTUBE.COM.

Twitter, same thing, if you are taking questions from the Twitter stream I want to see where they are coming from. What are the questions from your constituents? I want the urls. I want to see it FROM TWITTER.COM.

SHOW ME YOUR TRANSPARENCY
Show me your Transparency. Show me it's not a plant. Show me I am being represented in this media and not just getting "Transparency-Washed" like "Green-Washing" when public places set out recycling receptacles just to dump it all in the same bin behind closed doors.

All that is required:
1. url of the YouTube Video
2. url of the Twitter question

Why?
Because its important. This is OUR Forum. Our chance to be heard. This is my chance to tell Sacramento I don't like how they spend my money.

In the afternoon I heard the moderator shut down the questions from participants.

Think I am whining now?

For Transit Forum Update Click Here

Punxsutawney Phil Says Six More Weeks Of Winter

Punxsutawney Phil prognosticator of prognosticators is only right 40% of the time.

Are you ready for the thaw?

Groundhog Day In Gobbler's Knob

If Punxsutawney Phil exits his Gobbler's Knob burrow on Feb 2 & fails to see his shadow, He will leave it & winter will soon end. If he sees his shadow, Phill will retreat into his burrow, and winter will continue for six more weeks...

Winter is hell here in San Clemente...

Seth Godin On How To Be Indispensable In Orange County

In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff.

Don't Ignore this Purple Cow...

Seth Godin visits Orange County for one night only to share: How to be Indispensable

Z is for Zeitgeist

The Spirit of the Times,

& what G and M both paid big bux for to add to their SERPs,

It's the Sign Of Our Time, and it's happening all around us,

Conversational Media, The Zeitgeist of Our time... Two Way.

There is no reason why the average individual should not be fully empowered.

Be Powerful, Beutiful and Extraordinary.

Together, We are changing world.

T is for Three

Pos:
3
That's the magic number
Yes it is
It's the magic number
Somewhere in this hip-hop soul community
Was born 3 mase, dove and me
And that's the magic number

(what does it all mean? )

Difficult preaching is posdnuos' pleasure
Pleasure and preaching starts in the heart
Something that stimulates the music in my measure
Measure in my music, raised in three parts
Casually see but don't do like the soul
'cause seein' and doin' are actions for monkeys
Doin' hip hop hustle, no rock and roll
Unless your name's brewster, 'cause brewster's a punky
Parents let go 'cause there's magic in the air
Criticising rap shows you're out of order
Stop look and listen to the phrasin' fred astaires
And don't get offended while mase do-se-do's your daughter
A tri-camera rolls since our music's now set
Fly rhymes are stored on a d.a.i.s.y. production
It stands for "da inner sound y'all" and y'all can bet
That the action's not a trick, but showing the function

Everybody wants to be a deejay
Everybody wants to be an emcee
But being speakers are the best
And you don't have to guess
De la soul posse consists of three
And that's the magic number

Dove:
This here piece of the pie
Is not dessert but the course that we dine
And three out of every darn time
The effect is "mmmm" when a daisy grows in your mind
Showing true position, this here piece is
Kissin' the part of the pie that's missin'
When that negative number fills up the casualty
Maybe you can subtract it
You can call it your lucky partner
Maybe you can call it your adjective
But odd as it may be
Without my 1 and 2 where would there be
My 3
Mase pos and me
And that's the magic number

Focus is formed by flaunts to the soul
Souls who flaunt styles gain praises by pounds
Common are speakers who are never scrolls
Scrolls written daily creates a new sound
Listeners listen 'cause this here is wisdom
Wisdom of a speaker, a dove and a plug
Set aside a legal substance to feed 'em
For now get 'em high off this dialect drug
Time is a factor so it's time to count
Count not the negative actions of one
Speakers of soul say it's time to shout
Three forms the soul to a positive sum
Dance to this fix and flex every muscle
Space can be filled if you rise like my lumber
Advance to the tune but don't do the hustle
Shake, rattle, roll to my magic number

Now you may try to subtract it
But it just won't go away
Three times one?
(what is it? )
(one, two, three!)
And that's the magic number

(yo, what's up? )
(1, 2, 3)
(I say, children, what does it all mean? )
(woah-woah-wo, 1, 2, 3)
(I wouldn't lie to you)
(no more no less, that's the magic number)
(no more no less)
(what it is? )
(no more no less)
(is this the future? )
(no more no less)
(do the shang-a-lang)
(no more no less)
(no one on the subway ever chats to me)
(no more no less)
(anybody in the audience ever get hit by a car? )
(no more no less)
(how high's the water, mama? )
(no more no less)
(how high's the water, mama? )
(no more no less)
(three feet high and rising)
(no more no less)
(three)
(that's the magic number)

P is for Peace

One-a these days,
Our school will get the money it needs for smaller classes,
And the Navy will hold a bake sale to build a battleship.
And Johnny will get the money he needs for that operation,
And the Air Force will hold a raffle to buy a bomber.
And every vote will be counted in every election,
And the winners will always keep all of their promises.
And around the world we'll learn each other's languages
And the very first thing we'll learn is how to listen.

"Who knows the word for 'hello' in some other language?"

God only knows what the future will be
But God gave us brains He meant us to use 'em

Think Peace

N is for Now

Today is MLKjr day, yesterday is but a memory, and tomorrow is outside of our reach.

The only place a thinking person can place their fulcrum is in the Now.

Now is the time to make the change you seek.

Do not wait for someone else to make that change for you.

Be The Now.

K is for Kindness

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.

It's never to late to start.

Got Love?

J is for Jump The Shark

The moment when something that was once great has reached a point where it will now decline.

Look to these times to innovate, not stagnate.

Got Innovation?

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Are you ready to go into 201O ?

Jack Kornfield on Compassion

The Path to Awakening, Turning Difficultys into Our Freedom.

Ray Kurzweil Explains the Coming Singularity

Singularity, a point where an otherwise continuous mathematical progression becomes infinite.

The approaching Technological singularity is the idea that technological progress will reach such an infinite or extremely high value at a point in our near future. - Ray Kurzweil

The Polyphonic Spree - Light & Day

Light and day is more than you'll say

Because all
My feelings are more
Than I can let by
Or not
More than you've got
Just follow the day

Follow the day and reach for the sun!

You don't see me flyin to the red
One more you're done
Just follow the seasons and find the time
Reach for the bright side
You don't see me flyin to the red
One more you're nuts
Just follow the day
Follow the day and reach for the sun

Just follow the day
Follow the day and reach for the sun!

You don't see me flyin to the red
One more you're nuts
Just follow the seasons and find the time
Reach for the bright side
You don't see me flyin to the red
One more you're nuts
Just follow the day
Follow the day and reach for the sun!

Just follow the day
Follow the day and reach for the sun!

Just follow the day
Follow the day and reach for the sun!

Go BIG or Go HOME!

WOOT OUT! to SC local Greg Long for winning the 2009 Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational.

WE ARE GOING TO DISNEYLAND!!!

Growing up we knew it was time to go home when the Disneyland fireworks went off & all of our friends either worked at the Big A or the House of Mouse...

In the spirit of going back to our roots watch this the very first episode of the Disney anthology television series, AKA Wonderful World of Disney & Premiered on October 27, 1954.

Make Mine Freedom

On this Pearl Harbor day, We give you, "Fun Facts About America" this Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism & the benefits of Capitalism.

Make Mine Freedom.

The Hero's Journey

Welcome to the Monomyth, Our hero begins in the ordinary world & receives a call to enter the unknown world of strange powers & events...

Who is your hero?

Marshall McLuhan On Connecting

We have laid out our own electric networks on a global scale by cable, by telegraph, by radio, by all sorts of electric means.

These circuits are loaded with data that move instantly and which have become indispensable to all decision makers in business, in education, and in politics.

These circuits have a peculiar character not just of connecting us with one another but of involving us with one another.

It is because of the speed. With circuitry the feedback occurs at the same moment the event occurs. - Marshall McLuhan

The Quality of Listening by Jack Kornfield

In Africa. There is a story that illustrates the quality of listening that can come through meditation. In a particular east african tribe or village. When a child is born they don't count the birthday of that child from the day the child comes from its mothers body or even the day it is conceived as in certain other cultures, but rather from when that child was first a thought in its mothers mind, that is the real birthday. And as soon as the mother realizes that she would like to have a child with this particular partner, She will go off and sit out in a field under a tree, and listen, and wait until she can hear the song of the child that wants to be born in her heart that will come from the wedding or the coming together with this particular man. And when she hears this song, she sings it to herself, and then returns back to the village and teaches it to her partner so that when they make love together, joined together in love, They sing this song and invite this child to be born. And later as She is pregnant. She sings the song to the child in the womb and teachers it to midwives so that when the child is born. The first song or sound that it hears is those gathered around singing its own unique song. And as the child grows. The people of the village learn the song of this person so that when he falls or she falls and hurts herself. someone picts her up and sings her song to her, or in the rites of passage or rituals of the village the song is sung, the wedding ceremony where both songs are sung until finally even at the end of life, the song of this child now as an old man or women. is sung for the last time, and say their last words...

When I first heard the story in it touched in me a longing to live in a place where we heard one another's songs, where we were so in tune with ourselves and with one another that we could greet each other in that way, to meditate allows us to hear the song within ourself and to be respectful and hear the song of those around us. - Jack Kornfield

Do you know your song? Can you hear the song of others? Take the time to listen.

Thankful for Ohana

Ohana was a new word to me when I moved to San Clemente. From Wikipedia Ohana is defined:

Part of Hawaiian culture, ʻohana means family in an extended sense of the term including blood-related, adoptive or intentional. It emphasizes that family are bound together and members must cooperate and remember one another.

Today Darin and I will join a bunch of our Ohana at San Onofre Beach for the traditional Thanksgiving grub. I find it still so remarkable how we are all so very interconnected and interdependent upon one another. It's proven to me more and more that magic happens when we share and dream together.

Today I am thankful for Ohana. Bringing people into your life is a gift. Reach out. Don't be afraid.

Happy Thanksgiving Surfrider!

More With Less, a very special Thank You from @RTGit to the @Surfrider Foundation.

YOU GUYS ROCK!

How are you doing More with Less?

Join The Anti-ASCII Alliance

Do you really want to shock someone in this day of text messaging?
Reach out with a phone call. Marketing San Clemente (949) 336-2495

Reach Out

Reach Out.

Don't be afraid.

Be interested.

Connect...

Love is... Joe Frank

Love is... Joe Frank

Happy Friday the 13th

It's Friday the 13th & my Grammy Joe, who was born on Friday the 13th, told me, and I am telling you now, today is a lucky day! Ready to go!

Mutant Poodle Found In Dana Point California

It's not everyday that you see a purple cow walking down the street...

You look fabulous dahrling! But, Do You Got Otaku?

What Is Music Monday Anyway?

Q: What do @Blogger & Some Assembly Required have in common? A: 10 Candles! #MusicMonday #meme


Try one of my favorite meme's share your favorite music of the moment with your Ohana. All you need to do is tweet your fav tune and add the hash tag of #MUSICMONDAY. Got a Song ringing in your ears? A favorite podcast, band or international DJ? Music Monday is the time to share it!