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Money is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment and a store of value.
A measure or a store of value means also a measure or a store of information.
People all around the world  are brainstorming about the future of money: the financial system is dead, let us organise a new system, more sustainable, fair, not speculative...endly not capitalist.
Behind these discussions, two ideas are rising up:
1- Market is conversation: the conversation is possible with internet, the value of each exchange could be the result of these conversations. The global market could become a peer to peer conversation.
2- Exchange requires trust: internet is building trust on community information. The world financial system could turn up to social community financial system.
No doubt that States and population who are not involved in the "webosphere", will be reluctant to such a drastic change.
All is about trust: are you confident in Banks, States, Big companies today?

More links:
http://lets.net
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/
http://www.letsystem.org/
http://openmoney.org
http://openmoney.editme.com
http://blogtalkradio.com/openmoney
http://openmoney.info
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/01/20/a-better-way-to-make-money/
http://www.lietaer.com/
http://wiki.thetransitioner.org/English
All the twits from several countries about this issue

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Reading post "Blockage" in Cause Global Blog, I was impress by the  replies gave by Clay Shirky about the management of organizations and whole society.
To the question :
"Is there someone or some new organization doing this well?

Boing Boing, one of the well-trafficked Web blogs, has a brilliant community manager named Theresa Nielsen Hayden, whose principal MO is to sit back and watch"

answers Clay Shirky.
Absolutely disruptive of course as our traditionnal image of a true leader - manager is a busy person, pushing and pulling persons and projects.
Maybe the "sit and watch" attitude is the drastic posture  of the "new" leader but in the challenge to find efficient and flexible organization that deserves the society of information, it could be a necessary first step.

Do you agree with:
" how to change the organizational structure enough to accommodate Web-enabled, ground-up, collective action—self-organized groups of members or supporters or constituents that, because they're using new technology tools, are demanding interaction at far higher levels than before. This is something that really is unprecedented. Those organizations which fail to exert new leadership will risk losing support."
 

(Illustration by Miroslaw Pieprzyk)
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• 2009 is just a number (brendancooper.com)
• Rob Kall: GOP "Webification" Effort Could Backfire (huffingtonpost.com)

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Clouds can also be very useful to share good news, to give hope.
This picture could be a metaphora of the situation of USA today in the world.
A big plane in a river, which is not its place, and people going out peacefully.
The contrast give me hope, as far as I know that this people are all safe.

PS: the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, veteran of US Air Force, is 67 years old.
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Sandra Nkaké is french with Camerounese origin (like tennisman Yannick Noah). Her first album "Mansaadi", just coming out this October 21th, is not an essay. She is singing on stages for a while and she is really eclectic.
I like the way she plays with her voice, one more instrument and one more feeling on stage.

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More than the extend use of video or TV over the web, the future in Internet for me is in collaborative data visualization.
Few examples:
* Wikinvest has a feature called Wikicharts which allows users to share annotations on financial charts.Wikinvest's chart is extremely well executed and features customary dynamic axis and multiple time ranges, as well as their own additions for user-submitted annotations. Graphical annotation of chart is also explored in Berkeley project Sense.us and by IBM in Many Eyes technology (create your visual representation of data and information here : http://vizlab.nytimes.com/ )
* Kaltura is built on the collaborative Wiki model but uses media rather than text. Sites can add video capabilities using Kaltura's hosted services, download the open source community edition, or install self-serve video packages for web-platforms such as MediaWiki, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.
Using Kaltura's technology, users can create videos by combining existing uploaded media from sharing sites such as MySpace or YouTube with CreativeCommons or public domain sources such as Flickr, ccMixter, Jamendo, and The New York Public Library.^[2] Media that can then be embedded and played elsewhere on the Internet.
 
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Visualization_as_social_spaces.zip (307 KB)

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I do not resist the pleasure to publish the recipe my english friend Elisabeth mailed me. Last year we were enjoying so much her "boiled cake" with a "nice cup of tea" sat in front of her chimney in Four Marks.

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In the old time the only way to interact with music was singing, dancing, whistling, clapping your hands...but all these actions were just aside the music playing and NOT inside.
And now we just jump inside, the simplest and natural way you can imagine: for example you tell something and the music catch it and insert it in its flow...and so with any sound you produce.
This could be all, sound + sound = sound and that it's. No with RjDj the music will follow your steps, your movements: look at this new territory, more applications will come.

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1- Do you think United States of America (the political class and medias) could be proud of the way they acted with Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin?
2- Is a country considered more democratic if during the election process one candidate is allowed to attack the rival with all types of argument far away from political issues and ethics?
3- Is the change you profess during your campaign, dear President, will consist in wide-opening the doors of immigration in the United States as your country is "empty" , liberal and democratic as every country in the world should be?
This would be a disruptive measure for the US inside the country and outside and YES "YOU CAN!"

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"Bonne Chance!", Vanessa da Mata and Ben Harper are connecting me with my son as we both are listening this song, him in Fuerteventura  Beach (Canaries Islands) relaxing with his IPhone and I working in Zaragoza (Spain)
 
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