SENT BY JEBEEN
This is a collection of leave letters and applications written by> > people in various places of Pakistan.> >> > 1. A student's leave letter:> > "As I am suffering from my uncle's marriage I cannot attend the> > class...."> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 2. A candidate's application:> > "This has reference to your advertisement calling for a 'typist And an> > accountant - Male or Female'... As I am both for the past Several> > years> > and I can handle both; I am applying for the post."> >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 3. I.T.I., Lahore: An employee applied for leave as follows:> > Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife.> > Please sanction me one-week leave.> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 4. Another employee applied for half day leave as follows:> > "Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clocks and I may not> > return, please grant me half day casual leave"> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 5. A leave letter to the headmaster:> > "As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I> > request> > you to leave me today"> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 6. An incident of a leave letter:> > "I am suffering from fever, please declare one day holiday."> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 7. Another leave letter written to the headmaster:> > As my headache is paining, please grant me leave for the day.> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 8. A covering note:> > "I am enclosed herewith..."> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 9. From H.A.L. Administration dept:> > As my mother-in-law has expired and I am responsible for it, Please> > grant me 10 days leave.> >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 10. Actual letter written for application of leave:> > "My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband At> > home I may be granted leave".> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 11. Letter writing:> > "I am in well here and hope you are also in the same well."> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> > 12. Another gem from I.T.I. Leave-letter from an employee who was> > Performing his daughter's wedding:> > "As I am marrying my daughter, please grant a week's leave..."> >
Apples and Wine>>Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the>tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are>afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just take the rotten>apples from the ground that aren't as good, but convenient....... The>apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality,>they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along,>the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.>Share this with other women who are good apples, even those who have>already been picked!>>Now Men.... Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up>to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something>acceptable to have dinner with.
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
collection of leave letters sent by JEBEEN
Environmental Entrepreneur,Green Biz.NRN Murthy of Infosys says that we Indians are weak in execution.We need to realize the need and practice of gud project management. Form a group of competent Managers,Give them responsibilities and review the project from day One.
ati kya khandala in diffrent languages
From: Mehul Turakhia <m_turakhia@yahoo.com>Subject: aati kya khandala - in various languages , jus go through itTHIS ONE'S REALLY COOL.............A Kya Bolti TuA Kya Mai BoluSunSunaAti Kya KhandalaKya karu Ake mai KhandalaAre Ghumenge, nachenge, gayenge Aish karenge or kya ?English :Aye what do you say?Aye what should I say?Listen.Speak on.Coming to khandala?What should I do, coming to khandala?We'll roam, we'll loaf, we'll sing, we'll dance we"llfreak, baby,what else?Sanskrit : This is too good Aye balike, twam katham kathisyasiAye balakah aham kim kathisyamhShrinvasi!ShrunhaKim twam khandaalaa agchasyasiAham kim kurwasyami khandaalayehgamisyami, bhramisyami, nryuthyami, gaayami, majakarishma, kim karishyami?Punjabi :A ! ke boldi tu;A ke mein bolan;SunhSunhaChaldi khandalaKi karaan ae ke mein khandalaAre Ghoomenge, Turainge, Naachenge, Gaavenge, MaujKarenge, Aur Ki ?Gujarati :Aye shun bole tu?Aye hun shun bolu?SambhalSambhlaavAave chey su khandaalaa?Shun karu aaviine khandaalaa?Ghumshun, pharshun, naachshun, gaashun, majaa karshun,beeju shun?MarathiAye kaai tu mhantes?Aye kaai mi mhanhu?AikAikavYetes kai khandaalaa?Kai karu yevon mi khandaalaa?Are ghumuyaa, phiruyaa, gavuyaa, nachuyaa, aishkaruyaa, aankhin kai?! Kashmiri :Heey, kya chaakh wannanHeev, kya bhe wanneyyyyBoozWanooPakha telle khandalaa;Kya karee weeteth bhe khandalaaPherevhey, nachevhey, geevevhey, khevevhey, eeshkarav, beyy kya?Konkani :Aye ! kitte sangta tu?Aye ! aao kite sangu?SaangSaan! gtaKhandalaa yeta ghi?Khandalaa yevun kithe kharche?! Bhovya, Phireya, Naachya, Gauya, maja korya, anikithe?Bengali :Ei ki bolis tuiEi ki ar boliShonShonaaJabi ki khondalaaK! i kori giye khondalaaAre, ghurbo, phirbo, nachbo, gaibo, maja korbo ar ki?**************************Want somemore?????***************Malayalam :Aye yenna pariyunnu?Aye nyan yenna pariyu?KekuPariyuVarinno kh! andala?Yendu cheyam? Nyaan vannu Khandaala?Karangam, chuttam, paadam, aadam, majacheyyam,verendha?Telugu :Aye, ainte chaepphuta vuAye,ainte chaepalaVinu! ChaeppuWastava KhandalaYem Chesedhi? vacchi KhandalaThiruguthamu, eguruthamu, aadthaamu, paadthaamu,majachesthamu inkemi?Sindhi :Aye cha thi c! haen tu?Aye Maan chaa chavan?BudhBudhaiAcheti cha khandaalaa?Cha kandis achi maan khandaalaa?Are Ghumandasi, phirandasi, gayendasi,Nachandasi,aaish kan! dasi, byo cha?Magahi : (BIHARI)A ki bolahin tuA kya boliyuow humSunSunaowAaimahi ki khandalaKi kariaow aake hum khandalaGumbai, Phirbai, naachai, gaayii, aish karbai aur kiAssamese:ey ki kua tumi?ey ki kom moi?sunsunaahibi ki khandala?ki korim aahi moi kahandalaaare ghurim,phirim,nasim,gaam,khub phurti korim aru ki?Tamil:Enna solreEnnatha sollamudalla kelu,sari solluKandala variyakandala poi enna panrathuVera enna .oor suthuvom aaduvom paaduvom jalsapannuvom******If you have reached upto this stage, 't seemsyou dont have work, rite? Then have somemore...!!!!******************* Foreign Languages :German :Was sagst du?Was soll ich sagen?Hor mal!Sag mal!Kommst Nach Khandala?Was machen wir in Khaldala?Wir gehen, spazieren, tanzen, singen, haben spaCx,was noch?Spanish :Tu que deceas?Yo que deseo?OyeDi meVas a tu khandaalaa?Que haceo, yo voy en el khandaalaa?Viajamos, vagabundeamos, bailamos, cantamos,disfrutamos, si no.Chinese :Ain, Chon Zuan Ho?Ain, Chon Hee Zuano?Sui,Suion,Hyuan Chon Khandala?Chon Tsuani Hyui Hee Khandala?Chijuan, Kajuan, Marijuan, Siuan, SamshuanTsuaniya Tsu Chon?Russian :Aeich, Kov Speache niv?Aeich, Kov miv Speache?Nuushev,!Nuusheva,Comeva Kov Khandala?Kov Sheychev Comov miv Khandala! ?Rotiv, Rotrach, Balleva, Opereacha, EnjovaSheychevin, KovGobraich?French :!Aye! qu'est-ceque tu dis?Aye! qu'est-ceque tu me vouler dire?EntendreEntendrezEst-ceque tu viens a la KhandalaQu'est-ceque je fais a aller a la Khandala ?Promenez,! Allez, Dansez, Chantez a quelle?Zambesi : (African)Aye, Zwa To Zulu,Aye, Zwa Ze ! Zu! lu,Wahte,Kaso,Heliyo To Khandaalaa?Zwa Kumi, Helithe Khandaalaa?!Himala, Romala, Wahwahla, Infala, Kumaya Kumana, Ni---------------------------------
From: Akshay Jain <jakshay@gmail.com>Subject: AIR INDIASurinder's uncle was booked into an SIA flight toBombay. But as this was his first time in an airplane,he made a few preparations that were out of place.When the stewardess came around to take orders for thein-flight meal, the uncle declared loudly, "I havebrought my own lunch. Make sure you don't charge mefor food and drinks!"So, as everybody was given their in-flight meal, theuncle began spreading out his own home-cooked meal.The man sitting next to him was an American historyresearcher, who was curious about the food. "Excuseme, what is that drink?" he asked.The uncle picked up the yogurt-based lassi drink andsaid, "Milk of India!"The the uncle took out several pieces of chapattis andstarted feasting. "And what is that dish?" asked thecurious American."Wheat of India!" replied the uncle proudly.Finally, the uncle took out some desserts. He offeredsome to the American."What is it?" asked the American."Sweet of India!" replied the old man.After the meal, everyone was settling down when therewas a loud "Pooooooooot!" from the uncle."What was that?" asked the American in disgust.The old man replied coolly, "That's Air India!"
)From: "><><" <getjitendra@yahoo.com>Subject: WAYS TO PROPOSE1. (Walk up behind girl and point fingers shaped like gun into her back)You're under arrest! ;(For what?)For stealing my heart2. Hi, my name is Chance, Do I have one?3. are your legs tired?( girl: Why?)because you have been running through my mind all day!4. I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?5. Can you give me directions to your heart?I've seemed to have lost myself in your eyes.6. (Take a look at the tag on the girls shirt, jacket, etc.);She would say ; What are doing& respond,Oh, just checking to see if you were made in Heaven.7. (Pick up a flower and walk over to girl.)I was just showing this flower how beautiful you are.8. Is it hot in here or is it just you?9. Walk up to a girl and say: Are you from Greece?She answers.Oh, I thought all the goddesses were from Greece...10. I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek,and & die on your lips.11. Did you know they changed the alphabet?They put U and I together.12. Are you lost?'cause it's so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.13. Do you believe in love at first sight,or do I have to walk by you again?14. What's that in your eye? Oh...it's a sparkle.15. Do you have a map? I just got lost in your eyes.16. You can forget about going to heaven because it'sa sin to look that good.17. If I had eleven roses and you, I'd have a dozen!!~@ JiTeN @~!!
From: Akshay Jain <jakshay@gmail.com>Subject: AIR INDIASurinder's uncle was booked into an SIA flight toBombay. But as this was his first time in an airplane,he made a few preparations that were out of place.When the stewardess came around to take orders for thein-flight meal, the uncle declared loudly, "I havebrought my own lunch. Make sure you don't charge mefor food and drinks!"So, as everybody was given their in-flight meal, theuncle began spreading out his own home-cooked meal.The man sitting next to him was an American historyresearcher, who was curious about the food. "Excuseme, what is that drink?" he asked.The uncle picked up the yogurt-based lassi drink andsaid, "Milk of India!"The the uncle took out several pieces of chapattis andstarted feasting. "And what is that dish?" asked thecurious American."Wheat of India!" replied the uncle proudly.Finally, the uncle took out some desserts. He offeredsome to the American."What is it?" asked the American."Sweet of India!" replied the old man.After the meal, everyone was settling down when therewas a loud "Pooooooooot!" from the uncle."What was that?" asked the American in disgust.The old man replied coolly, "That's Air India!"
)From: "><><" <getjitendra@yahoo.com>Subject: WAYS TO PROPOSE1. (Walk up behind girl and point fingers shaped like gun into her back)You're under arrest! ;(For what?)For stealing my heart2. Hi, my name is Chance, Do I have one?3. are your legs tired?( girl: Why?)because you have been running through my mind all day!4. I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?5. Can you give me directions to your heart?I've seemed to have lost myself in your eyes.6. (Take a look at the tag on the girls shirt, jacket, etc.);She would say ; What are doing& respond,Oh, just checking to see if you were made in Heaven.7. (Pick up a flower and walk over to girl.)I was just showing this flower how beautiful you are.8. Is it hot in here or is it just you?9. Walk up to a girl and say: Are you from Greece?She answers.Oh, I thought all the goddesses were from Greece...10. I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek,and & die on your lips.11. Did you know they changed the alphabet?They put U and I together.12. Are you lost?'cause it's so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.13. Do you believe in love at first sight,or do I have to walk by you again?14. What's that in your eye? Oh...it's a sparkle.15. Do you have a map? I just got lost in your eyes.16. You can forget about going to heaven because it'sa sin to look that good.17. If I had eleven roses and you, I'd have a dozen!!~@ JiTeN @~!!
Environmental Entrepreneur,Green Biz.NRN Murthy of Infosys says that we Indians are weak in execution.We need to realize the need and practice of gud project management. Form a group of competent Managers,Give them responsibilities and review the project from day One.
Friday, February 11, 2005
INTERCONNECTED INTELLIGENCE
Interconnected Intelligence - How Powerful Can It Be?
Yesterday, Sunday, everything started to click at a faster rate than I ever expected. I know I am new to this, but are the millions out there way behind me as well.
What am I talking about?
Networked intelligence.
It is there. It is working. It is doing wonders in less than you eye can blink.
There are so many great minds at work toward creating a better and more harmonious place to live in it is hard to believe that this marvelous force can be stopped dead on its tracks.
But indeed that is the issue we must face today. Either to personally study and learn about this magnificient network and actively contribute to it, or remain untouched, an alien spectator to the most majestic human endeavour ever taken.
Yes, I believe it is of such magnitude.
Thinkers, innovators, technologists, developers, and entrepreneurs of all kinds are linking-up to create new powerful and diversified realities. Determining their rules and the spaces within which to operate.
Like-minded people discover and link-up to each other by using powerful self sustaining networks that provide powerful means of extending your reach rapidly and effectively.
The raise of Ecademy, Ryze, Linkedin, Friendster, Huminity and other social networks is a social and cultural phenomenon that is having profound effects on how people find out about each other, inreact and co-operate in mutually beneficial relationships.
In this virtual universe ideas interconnect and link up in at the speed of light and its immense creative power is at work 24/7/365.
Such rapid idea molding and create fast growing networks of powerful concepts rippling and bouncing faster than you can ever imagine.
It is my personal advice that each one of us takes a serious committment to understand deeply these communication revolution taking place at this very moment and to make it relevant at the levl where you, personally, can affect the most change and useful application.
Here is an interesting 1-hour broad spectrum scan of what a small fraction of the online interconnected intelligence is actively refining, improving and making available.
As one question of significant, planetary importance pops up in your head, you can be sure there is an army of independent minds working passionately at it.
Here is the proof:
From today I-Sales excellent e-mail discussion list, moderated by John Audette:
==> INTERNET FRAUD
From: Gert Cauwenbergh
Hi John
Welcome back. You gave me the extra incentive to start reading I-Sales again daily.
Recent posts on spam and your story on the eBay mock-up made me think.
The Internet paved the path to global economics, sales, transactions, networking.
Everything done from the bottom up.
I always believed in the bottom-up approach of people gathering and pushing for changes, I even built my company on this.
With regard to spam, in recent weeks, I read in the local press (Belgium), global press and online newsletters more and more requests to have a global legislation against spam since it will be the only solution to fight off-shore spammers.
My question: will the Internet and its worldwide community (singular) be the driver to generate global legislation as well?
Kind regards-- Gert Cauwenbergh
Now please read this:
"Proponents of the Internet have committed to and sought for a more intelligent Internet where new democratic methods could be enabled to help rectify the imbalance and inequalities of the world. Instead, the Internet today is a noisy environment with a great deal of power consolidation instead of the level democratic Internet many envisioned.
In 1993 Howard Rheingold wrote[1],
We temporarily have access to a tool that could bring conviviality and understanding into our lives and might help revitalize the public sphere. The same tool, improperly controlled and wielded, could become an instrument of tyranny.
The vision of a citizen-designed, citizen-controlled worldwide communications network is a version of technological utopianism that could be called the vision of "the electronic agora."
In the original democracy, Athens, the agora was the marketplace, and more--it was where citizens met to talk, gossip, argue, size each other up, find the weak spots in political ideas by debating about them.
But another kind of vision could apply to the use of the Net in the wrong ways, a shadow vision of a less utopian kind of place--the Panopticon.
Since then he has been criticized as being naive about his views.[2] This is because the tools and protocols of the Internet have not yet evolved enough to allow the emergence of Internet democracy to create a higher-level order. As these tools evolve we are on the verge of an awakening of the Internet.
This awakening will facilitate a political model enabled by technology to support those basic attributes of democracy which have eroded as power has become concentrated within corporations and governments.
It is possible that new technologies may enable a higher-level order, which in turn will enable a form of emergent democracy able to manage complex issues and support, change or replace our current representative democracy.
It is also possible that new technologies will empower terrorists or totalitarian regimes. These tools will have the ability to either enhance or deteriorate democracy and we must do what is possible to influence the development of the tools for better democracy."
Keep reading Emergent Democracy Paper here. (Hats to Joi Ito and his teammates for such excellent work).
Having now a better idea of the actual scope and breadth of what INDIVIDUALS and LIKE-MINDED groups, self-organized in dynamic networks aspire and are capable of, you may be ready to jump into viewing at how seriously indeed the new interconnected intelligence can become capable of becoming an alternative political force.
Here is what somebody else around the world is writing. This piece carries forward some powerful and highly interesting ideas about how relevant and effective this new grassroots networked power can actually come to be.
Please read:
"There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation. Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the “will of the people” in a global social movement.
The beautiful but deeply agitated face of this second superpower is the worldwide peace campaign, but the body of the movement is made up of millions of people concerned with a broad agenda that includes social development, environmentalism, health, and human rights.
This movement has a surprisingly agile and muscular body of citizen activists who identify their interests with world society as a whole—and who recognize that at a fundamental level we are all one. These are people who are attempting to take into account the needs and dreams of all 6.3 billion people in the world—and not just the members of one or another nation. Consider the members of Amnesty International who write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience, and the millions of Americans who are participating in email actions against the war in Iraq. Or the physicians who contribute their time to Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres.
[...]
"New forms of communication and commentary are being invented continuously...
The current enthusiasm for blogging is changing the way that people relate to publication, as it allows realtime dialogue about world events as bloggers log in daily to share their insights.
Meta-blogging sites crawl across thousands of blogs, identifying popular links, noting emergent topics, and providing an instantaneous summary of the global consciousness of the second superpower.
[...]
The Internet and other interactive media continue to penetrate more and more deeply all world society, and provide a means for instantaneous personal dialogue and communication across the globe.
The collective power of texting, blogging, instant messaging, and email across millions of actors cannot be overestimated.
Like a mind constituted of millions of inter-networked neurons, the social movement is capable of astonishingly rapid and sometimes subtle community consciousness and action.
Distributed mass behavior, expressed in rallying, in voting, in picketing, in exposing corruption, and in purchases from particular companies, all have a profound effect on the nature of future society. More effect, I would argue, than the devastating but unsustainable effect of bombs and other forms of coercion."
[...]
Aming many other powerful considerations, one stands particularly valuable to me and to those who may have been highly critical of the politics and operations of some of the largest international development organizations.
"...we must carefully consider how best to support international institutions, so that they collectively form a setting in which our power can be exercised.
Perhaps too often we attack institutions like the World Bank that might, under the right conditions, actually become partners with us in dealing with the first superpower.
International institutions must become deeply more transparent, accessible to the public, and less amenable to special interests, while remaining strong enough to provide a secure context in which our views can be expressed."This paper was recently prepared by James F. Moore of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Please read the full paper "The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head" by James F. Moore.
As you have seen, the view on how significant and critical the effect on new social networking aspects of our society may vary quite a bit, but in all cases, they all appear to have the potential of providing governance and legislation as much more of the online rules determine also our options to communicate and freely exchange.
How Communication Agents like me and you will confront this opportunity will bear significant changes on how we live, co-operate and go about the business of living together harmoniously in a learning society.
Something to start seriously thinking about.
http://www.masternewmedia.org/2003/05/12/interconnected_intelligence_how_powerful_can_it_be.htm
Yesterday, Sunday, everything started to click at a faster rate than I ever expected. I know I am new to this, but are the millions out there way behind me as well.
What am I talking about?
Networked intelligence.
It is there. It is working. It is doing wonders in less than you eye can blink.
There are so many great minds at work toward creating a better and more harmonious place to live in it is hard to believe that this marvelous force can be stopped dead on its tracks.
But indeed that is the issue we must face today. Either to personally study and learn about this magnificient network and actively contribute to it, or remain untouched, an alien spectator to the most majestic human endeavour ever taken.
Yes, I believe it is of such magnitude.
Thinkers, innovators, technologists, developers, and entrepreneurs of all kinds are linking-up to create new powerful and diversified realities. Determining their rules and the spaces within which to operate.
Like-minded people discover and link-up to each other by using powerful self sustaining networks that provide powerful means of extending your reach rapidly and effectively.
The raise of Ecademy, Ryze, Linkedin, Friendster, Huminity and other social networks is a social and cultural phenomenon that is having profound effects on how people find out about each other, inreact and co-operate in mutually beneficial relationships.
In this virtual universe ideas interconnect and link up in at the speed of light and its immense creative power is at work 24/7/365.
Such rapid idea molding and create fast growing networks of powerful concepts rippling and bouncing faster than you can ever imagine.
It is my personal advice that each one of us takes a serious committment to understand deeply these communication revolution taking place at this very moment and to make it relevant at the levl where you, personally, can affect the most change and useful application.
Here is an interesting 1-hour broad spectrum scan of what a small fraction of the online interconnected intelligence is actively refining, improving and making available.
As one question of significant, planetary importance pops up in your head, you can be sure there is an army of independent minds working passionately at it.
Here is the proof:
From today I-Sales excellent e-mail discussion list, moderated by John Audette:
==> INTERNET FRAUD
From: Gert Cauwenbergh
Hi John
Welcome back. You gave me the extra incentive to start reading I-Sales again daily.
Recent posts on spam and your story on the eBay mock-up made me think.
The Internet paved the path to global economics, sales, transactions, networking.
Everything done from the bottom up.
I always believed in the bottom-up approach of people gathering and pushing for changes, I even built my company on this.
With regard to spam, in recent weeks, I read in the local press (Belgium), global press and online newsletters more and more requests to have a global legislation against spam since it will be the only solution to fight off-shore spammers.
My question: will the Internet and its worldwide community (singular) be the driver to generate global legislation as well?
Kind regards-- Gert Cauwenbergh
Now please read this:
"Proponents of the Internet have committed to and sought for a more intelligent Internet where new democratic methods could be enabled to help rectify the imbalance and inequalities of the world. Instead, the Internet today is a noisy environment with a great deal of power consolidation instead of the level democratic Internet many envisioned.
In 1993 Howard Rheingold wrote[1],
We temporarily have access to a tool that could bring conviviality and understanding into our lives and might help revitalize the public sphere. The same tool, improperly controlled and wielded, could become an instrument of tyranny.
The vision of a citizen-designed, citizen-controlled worldwide communications network is a version of technological utopianism that could be called the vision of "the electronic agora."
In the original democracy, Athens, the agora was the marketplace, and more--it was where citizens met to talk, gossip, argue, size each other up, find the weak spots in political ideas by debating about them.
But another kind of vision could apply to the use of the Net in the wrong ways, a shadow vision of a less utopian kind of place--the Panopticon.
Since then he has been criticized as being naive about his views.[2] This is because the tools and protocols of the Internet have not yet evolved enough to allow the emergence of Internet democracy to create a higher-level order. As these tools evolve we are on the verge of an awakening of the Internet.
This awakening will facilitate a political model enabled by technology to support those basic attributes of democracy which have eroded as power has become concentrated within corporations and governments.
It is possible that new technologies may enable a higher-level order, which in turn will enable a form of emergent democracy able to manage complex issues and support, change or replace our current representative democracy.
It is also possible that new technologies will empower terrorists or totalitarian regimes. These tools will have the ability to either enhance or deteriorate democracy and we must do what is possible to influence the development of the tools for better democracy."
Keep reading Emergent Democracy Paper here. (Hats to Joi Ito and his teammates for such excellent work).
Having now a better idea of the actual scope and breadth of what INDIVIDUALS and LIKE-MINDED groups, self-organized in dynamic networks aspire and are capable of, you may be ready to jump into viewing at how seriously indeed the new interconnected intelligence can become capable of becoming an alternative political force.
Here is what somebody else around the world is writing. This piece carries forward some powerful and highly interesting ideas about how relevant and effective this new grassroots networked power can actually come to be.
Please read:
"There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation. Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the “will of the people” in a global social movement.
The beautiful but deeply agitated face of this second superpower is the worldwide peace campaign, but the body of the movement is made up of millions of people concerned with a broad agenda that includes social development, environmentalism, health, and human rights.
This movement has a surprisingly agile and muscular body of citizen activists who identify their interests with world society as a whole—and who recognize that at a fundamental level we are all one. These are people who are attempting to take into account the needs and dreams of all 6.3 billion people in the world—and not just the members of one or another nation. Consider the members of Amnesty International who write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience, and the millions of Americans who are participating in email actions against the war in Iraq. Or the physicians who contribute their time to Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres.
[...]
"New forms of communication and commentary are being invented continuously...
The current enthusiasm for blogging is changing the way that people relate to publication, as it allows realtime dialogue about world events as bloggers log in daily to share their insights.
Meta-blogging sites crawl across thousands of blogs, identifying popular links, noting emergent topics, and providing an instantaneous summary of the global consciousness of the second superpower.
[...]
The Internet and other interactive media continue to penetrate more and more deeply all world society, and provide a means for instantaneous personal dialogue and communication across the globe.
The collective power of texting, blogging, instant messaging, and email across millions of actors cannot be overestimated.
Like a mind constituted of millions of inter-networked neurons, the social movement is capable of astonishingly rapid and sometimes subtle community consciousness and action.
Distributed mass behavior, expressed in rallying, in voting, in picketing, in exposing corruption, and in purchases from particular companies, all have a profound effect on the nature of future society. More effect, I would argue, than the devastating but unsustainable effect of bombs and other forms of coercion."
[...]
Aming many other powerful considerations, one stands particularly valuable to me and to those who may have been highly critical of the politics and operations of some of the largest international development organizations.
"...we must carefully consider how best to support international institutions, so that they collectively form a setting in which our power can be exercised.
Perhaps too often we attack institutions like the World Bank that might, under the right conditions, actually become partners with us in dealing with the first superpower.
International institutions must become deeply more transparent, accessible to the public, and less amenable to special interests, while remaining strong enough to provide a secure context in which our views can be expressed."This paper was recently prepared by James F. Moore of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Please read the full paper "The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head" by James F. Moore.
As you have seen, the view on how significant and critical the effect on new social networking aspects of our society may vary quite a bit, but in all cases, they all appear to have the potential of providing governance and legislation as much more of the online rules determine also our options to communicate and freely exchange.
How Communication Agents like me and you will confront this opportunity will bear significant changes on how we live, co-operate and go about the business of living together harmoniously in a learning society.
Something to start seriously thinking about.
http://www.masternewmedia.org/2003/05/12/interconnected_intelligence_how_powerful_can_it_be.htm
Environmental Entrepreneur,Green Biz.NRN Murthy of Infosys says that we Indians are weak in execution.We need to realize the need and practice of gud project management. Form a group of competent Managers,Give them responsibilities and review the project from day One.
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