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Have you seen any good sites/sources on blogosphere metrics? I want to understand them. 1. Imagine a human network cluster diagram -- eg see bottom of http://myadda.com2. Imagine that those who blog profusely have their nodes to be proportionately brighter.3. Imagine that those who seem to be opinion leaders (i.e. they seem to be the source of many emerging memes in their swarming space) have their dot to be proportionately larger.So how can we using http://www.technorati.com , http://www.blogpulse.com , http://www.furl.net and http://del.icio.us get the best sense of who is the "boss" for what and how it spreads.

Check out the rather creative bunch at https://www.openbc.com/net/between/We're organising bridges for acumen flow from Europe to Southeast Asia there.Objective: Accelerate our roadmap towards making Malaysia.Net etc into *the* Knowledge Economy brands/mind colonies. See roadmap at http://www.ryze.com/go/balaParticular focus areas: aspects of mind colonies like citizen-ownership structures, partnerships to accelerate blended-media, capital raising and complementary currency.

The Worldwide Help Desk for Complementary Currency Systems, an initiative of the Strohalm Foundation, is located at:http://www.complementarycurrency.org/helpdesk.html .  We invite you to visit this website to see the services that we offer to individuals and groups who are working to implement, or better manage their complementary currency system.In addition to a Frequently Asked Questions file, and a number of practical

Forwarded from:-http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/Creativity TechniquesBelow are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY. It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity technique) for each job. We will try and provide a little guidance along with each tool to let you know whether it's best used for cutting paper or putting in nails.

Low hanging fruits & Monetising ProblemsBy Bala Pillai, SydneyWhat is the criteria?Given that the harder a problem, the greater the reward, the lesser thecompetition, the more uncertain resourcing for it is ANDThe easier a problem, the lesser the reward, the greater the competition andthe more certain resourcing isLow hanging fruits would lie in the sweetspot between "too hard a problem" and "too easy a problem". Not too hard such that the resourcing is so uncertain.Not too easy such that the rewards make it so unworthwhile.By resourcing I mean human resourcing. Why? Because astute humans organise all other resources, money included.Monetising ProblemsHow do you monetise problems?First of all realise that default problems are opportunities. And defaultopportunities are monetisable.And be prepared to imagine that some of the most surprising problems are monetisable. For example, how do you monetise the problem of unhappiness? Answer: Bottle happiness -- that is basically what Coca-Cola has done. It has bottled glee.How do you monetise value? Attach a currency value to it. And osmosis the value.How do you monetise views? Create exchanges. That's what stock exchanges and foreign exchange dealers do. You sell your view on where a stock or currency's price is headed.Can we monetise our views on which script-director-actor combination will do well and which we think won't? You bet -- create an exchange for the buying and selling of these views.What blurs whether money can be made from doing this?1. Absence of imagination and habitual perception that the solution will be executed weakly.