These type of products look amazing.  Welcome to the world of personal power generation.

I find them interesting not only because of the lack of batteries, but also because of the Do It Yourself aspect.  Like "personal publishing", if these type of products are done right, it's another area of life that - easily - comes under one's personal control.

Check it out here.

It's a good review, and he mentions the StopWatch application, which I hadn't heard about.


As you can tell, over the last week, I have a bit of an infatuation with the new I-Nano.  It's quite unhealthy, especially since I won't be picking it up! (Unless I rationalize to myself that the stopwatch application is EXACTLY what I need for my exercise practice.)

Then of course, Paul reminds me to feel guilty about this infatuation, which is pretty easy for me to do.

Since I'm not buying the Nano (at least not yet), my rationalization is that I am simply admiring genius at work - kinda like when you see a beautiful butterfly, you have no choice but to feel awe. 

What do you think?

Via Lifehacks, I came acroos the GoogleBlog search.

This is the search I find when I look for Ken Wilber.  It seems to me to be pretty fast and powerful.

A couple of things -

1.  There are some good posts from authors I know nothing about.

Check out this article from Perigrinato, and also this article from A Place Called Vertigo.

2.  It looks like the List of Integral Blogs I keep is going to be expanding in the near future...

I was alerted to the IPod Nano by Integra-Pundit Coolmel. 

So I went by the San Francisco Mac Store near Union Square, to take a look at it.

OH! MY!  GOD!!!!

This Nano ABSOLUTELY takes my breath away!!!  I cannot believe how small and light it is!!  It's like having the functionality of an IPOD in a credit card!!! (it's thicker than a credit card of course, but you get the idea.)

Comparing the size of the current IPOD to the Nano, is like comparing the first Motorola Brick phone to the current IPOD. The thing is that small!

I'm not going to get it, because I have an ipod, and I simply can't justify the expense, since I have one.  But in a couple of years, when this credit card-sized Nano has 20 or 30 gigs, I'll be revisiting that decision...

A couple of interesting web design articles, in particular this one called Web Thinking. 

And then of course this leads to a classic document, Axioms of Web Architecture.

Why am I posting about this?  Well, beside I simply find the subject matter fascinating, one of my failing of my thinking is that I like to commit category error quite a lot - in this case, thinking about how good design principles in practice apply to other idea principles.

I've read the Integral Spirituality presentation by Wilber a couple of times now, and while there is a lot of great stuff - I'll have a review on it within a week, I believe - there is definitely a couple of annoyances -

a.  Multiplication of ontologies - again, I'll get into this in my review - but there seems to be this increasing number of categories, objects, distinctions, etc, that Wilber posits, and at some point, the verification of these entities become muddled.
b.  The annoyance of these "grand visions" that don't address experienced personal qualities - such as oh, will, emotion, etc. But of course, that's me wanting to keep things simple, inspiring.

I'm a bit suspicious of the continued expansion of entities in Wilber's schema, but hey, what do I know? 

I'll feel more confortable when investigations to examine the "fit" of the theories (as we know there won't be one to one, so closest "fit" is the best that can be done) to what we know, is detailed out.

Or, you could also say "hosted". 

This particular site is a "hosted" blog application, that I pay monthly for. 

I buy groceries online.

And books online.

I pay most, if not all, of my bills online - although I haven't tried synchonizing with a hosted quicken solution yet.

I pay monthly for access to the content over at IntegralNaked.

I work (consult, train, design) for a hosted learning service.

My personal email is mainly hosted. 

And I'm thinking about joining Shift In Action to have access to even more content.

In a sense, my "gym" is hosted as well.  They provide services, and I go to the place to take advantage of the various services there.

Web 2.0 is about combining content and services course, that there is enough investment in , in community blocks that are both local and global (or "glocal").  Assuming there is enough infrastructure to support a robust economy.

Social structures and services to support those structures, unbounded by geography or time - always available.

There's a huge market here, that will only get bigger, and THIS IS the market for the 21st century.