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This is a quick post just to share some early morning thoughts with you. So, there they are.

If you notice everything around you is probably getting more and more automated and synced. Data is flowing in and out of any particular system and of course between different systems and their input and output channels. Data is also flowing between virtual and physical world by means of automation or convenience such as mobile devices, etc. [...]

The following is a great TED talk from David Carson. David is a typographer running a successful magazine which explores the possibilities of text on a page. In his talk, David makes some useful points about design but also provides some other intriguing insights worth taking note of.

I like what he said about what will be next, just near the end of the presentation. Quoting:

and a bit further he says:

…and with that completes another great TED talk.

Twitter is full of bots. It should be no big surprise to you, I hope. Bots make the service essentially less useful. For example, how do you know how many out of the 2000 followers are real people with opinion that is valuable to you or your community? You don’t know! Any newbie programmer can code up a simple script to post thoughts, retweet and sync feeds and do other things to the extend you no longer can differentiate between real and spammy traffic. [...]

To experiment is good. Just a few of my experiments turned into successful projects but I do not regret for wasting my time on the others. Each experiment helped me understand better the topic I was diving into and also made me a better person a long the way.

It is pretty sad that the majority of people avoid starting experiments because, a) experiments are often treated as projects, and b) projects could fail. Fear of failure is a huge thing nowadays. [...]

Do you have bad facebook manners? I am sure you do, but here is an educational video if you want to double check.

The things that you have to remember are that if you are buying none-american stuff and you are a communist than you go to jail. I wonder if authorities will allow inmates to have and keep updated their facebook profiles while they are in prison. The only prerequisite is to update your profile photo with your mug shot. [...]

This is another TED video. Lately I’ve been doing some digging on new ideas.

In the video above, Charles Leadbeater, a researcher from the UK based Demos Think Tank, talks about that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. The amateurs are taking over the world with ideas, paradigms and product shifts which companies cannot afford to take.

I was planning to take some notes and post them on the block but I just too lazy to do that. [...]

The following is a video of Tim Berners-Lee, and his talk on Ted titled The next Web of open, linked data.

What Tim refers to is what we know today as the Semantic Web. I’ve done extensive research on this topic in my university years. As a matter of fact, back than, my motivation was to create a semantic search engine/portal to enable the open source community. The project was called GNUCITIZEN and today it is nothing like what it was originally intended to be. [...]

So you read or hear about a concept you are not familiar with and you rush to learn more but out of frustration you give up pretty quickly and forget the the whole thing all together or you grow some negative emotions or even worse, fear. Most people will do exactly this.

Things are not as complicated as they seem but it takes time to adjust your brain to the right type of thinking that is required to understand the subject or to learn the craft you are interested in. [...]

One of my favorite blogs had a good post today and I decided to share it with you. Have a look at 37singals’ post titled Giving the trick away gave nothing away, because you still couldn’t grasp it.

The main argument is that giving away the recipe of how you do something shouldn’t be considered as a disadvantage or some kind of threat to your expertise. The recipe is one part of the story. [...]

Quotes are often open to personal interpretations. Nevertheless, I find them quite important as they act as a summary for much broader and lengthier topics. The following post contains quotes from Timothy Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek. I’ve read Timothy’s book not long ago and I was quite intrigued as hist personal philosophy is very close in some aspects to mine.

The source for all of these quotes can be found here.