and I want to mention them because they are community sites, not only individual sites - both on the Drupal software.

First off - there is Integral Reflections - from what I can see, this site has been around awhile (November 2004 counts as awhile) - and I'm not sure whether they will continue to publish, as they have gone pretty much silent since May of 2005 - but like Generation Site, you have multiple bloggers on one site.

Next, is Shift in Action - this site marks what I know to be the first entry by an "integral-type" college, into the blogosphere, as this has been put together by the Institute of Noetic Sciences.  As well, they are using the media friendliness of Drupal to present Live Teleseminars.  In this, they are following in the heels of Integral Naked, but it still is nice to see other organizations move forward with technology to engage in questions at the frontiers of inner and outer knowledge.

Now, here's where I have to admit my laziness - I have a separate box sitting there -with Drupal on it - right now!!

This is as opposed to integral's good techie friend, Michael Dubois, who actually has helped out with Shift In Action, from what I understand.  As well as keeping Integral Visioning and IntegralWiki going!

But, I haven't done anything with it - it sits there, as I go about my regular life.  (I was going to prettify it up, but I never got around to doing any site design, and adding a couple of modules, after I did the install.)

Ah well.  One of these days you'll see a community site, but up by ebuddha - but I wouldn't be holding your breath!

I downloaded the beta version of Google Desktop 2.0 earlier today.  I've been letting it run,

It's pretty cool. 

1. I particular like the "Web Clips" functionality, as this allows you add as much content as you want, from whever you want. 
    a.The way this pops up is clean, and with the "pop-out" from the title of a post,
    b.can actually allow you to read the entire post without having to go a site.
    c.In addition, some feeds are added by the software, although I don't know how it this is decided.
    d. You can also "search' for a feed by keyword - with that amazing google speed.  I search on "integral", I get Ryan's Integral Awakening, this site, and Shawn's A Day In the Integral Life.  Played around for a bit, check out some cool tech, meditation, and philosphy blogs - all through searching for terms!


There's also:

2. Quick view of recent (and weighted?) bookmarks
3. What's Hot section - I wonder what the algorithm around this is - similar to Google News?
4. Weather
5. Email
6. News - which again, can be edited. 

This competition between Yahoo and Google, I must say, I really love.  Both are getting better and better.  Before today, I would have said hands down, Yahoo wins the personalization (and actually, as a web-base "My Space" type of functionality it still does.), however, there are (finally) a couple of features that Google Desktop has, that My Yahoo doesn't have.
NOTE:  This may be comparing two different types of products, since one is desktop based, and one is browser-based. However, both address a lot of the same functionality in terms of these services providing the CONTENT that I want to see, when I want to see it, and how I want to see it.

P.S.  Make sure to use the encryption functionality for desktop search, if you try out Google Desktop.
 

I ran across this LifeHack article about audiobooks, and it resonated with me. 

"I sleep for 6-7 hours, spend around 1 hour for lunch, dinner and bath, 8-10 hours for my work and 1 hour for commuting. Adding them up, I already spent 16-19 hours on those projects. By spending 2 hours per day for blogging and its preparation (reading, planning etc), time for attending my post-grad courses in human resources management, and time for my girl friend and family - That leaves me less than 3 hours per day to do the rest of things - including self-development."

It's a similar type of situation for me, in terms of lack of time - and then of course, you add an hour of meditation, and then an average of 30 minutes a day on some physical exercise (working out, yoga, running, etc).

Since my commute and my run are combined now (I'm commuting BY running home, for the most part), that helps.

Beginning of this year, I found a way to leverage some of the used time for self-development - by listening to audio books. With some tasks like commuting and bathroom break, I can utilize these times to listen and learn from the audio content

I've done something similar, in that I've put a few things on Audio -I have Eckhart Tolle on CD, and transferred it to the Ipod, and then a few INaked presentations and conversations as well. 

The Eckhart Tolle, and some Poonjaji stuff, is very good, for example, on a bus (if I'm late, don't want to walk).  There's something about moving, without being responsible for your own locomotion, that resonates deeply in terms of a proper understanding of will to Divine Will.  (Maybe this is just me).

Has anyone out there had a lot of positive experiences with books on tape/CD/Ipod?  What works, what doesn't, in your experience? In knowledge, understanding, behavior change, and simple entertainment?

An FYI, for those who haven't seen this.  Lots of stuff I haven't heard about (as well as a lot I have).  Maybe you will find something pretty cool yourself!

Or something.  I'm not exactly sure this is real or if it is a put-on, but read this tale of exploited capital, and marvel, weep, or yawn, as per your preference.

I had mentioned previously that I had enrolled in the Yahoo My Web 2.0 Beta, but either it didn't exist, there is now a del.icio.us functionality - as well as the RSS functionality.
 
The shared bookmarking functionality works better than del.icio.us in many ways - however, you must have a Yahoo account to access it. 

Still, the community page is pretty cool - both the graphical view, and then clicking on "everyone's tags".

With the blogging functionality (which I haven't tried yet) and the ability to share or not share (discrete privacy options) it's a nice set of features.

You can find the latest version of the Integral Blog page right here.  This page will also always be in the right column, under "Integral Organizations And Information". 

There are 103 blogs included - this is the case even though:

a.  I have not included links for any blogs that haven't updated since June.
b.  I have deleted almost all blogs that did not directly reference Integral Theory in some manner.  (there are still a few however, such as How To Save The World, that takes a fairly integral view of life, but in a humanistic perspective.)

Still, there are over 100 integral blogs!

I've also cleaned up the look a bit, and the order the blogs are listed in is based on a descending order - last post first. 

A few observations -

1.  I'm not sure I'll be able to do this for a lot longer - the ways the blogging community is growing, it simply will probably take too much time to do this on an ongoing basis. Like I mentioned last week, there is now a blog created every second!

2. I'll experiment, however, with having a few more RSS channels on this blog, that will cull the Integral View automatically, such as a technorati feed, or another, more meaningful view.  (Here's an example of what I mean.)  However, there is still a lot of "junk" in Technorati's search, so we will see what will happen.

3.  The only way I've been able to keep up with even half of these, is that wonderful tool called RSS, and if you don't use an RSS reader yet, well, you should!   I personally use the RSS functionality in Thunderbird, and also use the My Yahoo functionality.

4.  Now, of course it IS annoying that blogs that I DO wish to be notified of when they have posted (such as Victoria and The Human Bean), still don't utilize RSS.  That's too bad.  (Yes, ALL should kowtow to my informational whims.  The sheer arrogance of a lone blogger raises it's head!  ) 

It is funny to get "attached" in a certain sense, to the stories that people tell - but I can't really help it.  Like a snowflake, every voice I read, or hear (and even in some cases see!) on a blog, is an exercise in a beautiful uniqueness.  That's true for pretty much every single personal blog I read, which I guess accounts for my reluctance to give them up...

At any rate - here's a toast to the blogosphere!

In particular the integral blogosphere, and this community of open-hearted intelligent souls, sharing themselves, in faith and wonder, for all the world to see.

UPDATE:  Well, it seems I spoke too soon on The Human Bean!  She DOES have a RSS feed!

Oops!  I was sure the last time I checked she didn't!  Well, at any rate, this is good news!  See, wishes ARE granted, even if they may be due to outdated information!

Well, it appears that being on the "leading edge" is now over!  According to this BBC News article, "there is a blog born every second".  Wow!

Technorati says that the number of blogs, 14.2 million, is up from 7.8 million in March. 

That's a lot of blogs! 

Clearly, this gives new meaning to the phrase " The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here"...