Through last year, I would occasionally point to the Inner-Net blog, while Nipun and Guri were doing their trek through India on a dollar a day.

Well, they've been back awhile.  And now, they have an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about their trip!

Truly inspiring lives, truly inspiring.

Saw this post on Holistic and Integral Education about virtual realities.

All that I've really done on virtual realities is, a demo for a couple of days.  It was pretty interesting, but there wasn't a so-called "group" that I knew of, to be interested in.

Are there any virtual - with avatar - groups devoted to integral out there? 

If not, who would be interested in avatar "get-togethers"?  At least one or two, to get a sense of things.

Looking forward to this book.

Ideally, in the job situation, at some point, I want to go from a six or seven assessment  (like my job, good pay, interesting) to an 8 or 9. 

And I've always liked the idea of working for myself.

We'll see.  I may be too lazy to do that...

I'm not going to provide the link, since no reason to bring up the hacked page - but hopefully, this will get fixed up soon.

One rating tool that is out there, and is pretty easy to use - is Yahoo Local.  You can use Yahoo Local to rate any organization that is listed in Yahoo's pages - which happens to be most organizations.

Take a look at the ratings of Integral Institute. 

Feel free to rate as well!

There's no way to tag the review so far - and I am waiting for this.

At any rate, this is the first stop on my tour of assessment and evaluations.  Let me know your thoughts!

We've been hearing for awhile now - from me and others - do the practice, collect the research.  Peer to peer.  Yadda yada yada.

I am VERY interested - at this point fanatically - on getting this going. 

I've been tapdancing around this topic for a long time.  And a lot of the recent postings by Ryan are having me take a look at this again.

Here is a grouping of some relevant posts:

Integral Criticism:  The Solution is Easy
Is Self-Help A Sham?


For the next two months, I will be blogging - pretty consistently - on the following topic:

1. What would a results-based 3 month practice change project team look like?
2. What are the softwares out there these groups would use? Evalution software?  Results software?  Project software? Group task management software?
3.  What would be the operational requirements - both in social structure, tasks, expectations, steps, to take to have a group process project and evaluation.

There will be many questions about the following -

What is a good assessment for a 3 month/1 year project?
Depending on the project, should the assessment be self only, or peer? 
What online collaborative project will be utilized?
What tasks tracked? 
Will tracking be negative or positive?  (I did this list of things, I didn't do this list of things)
What is the baseline?

However - all of the above will be dependent on there being an online group  assessment/evaluation tool.

So I am going to spend some time researching some of the tools I find - and if anyone else finds other tools that are promising, please let me know.

Click the link - please, I beg you!!

Well, this sucks - not that I'm surprised.

And we can already see the consequences of a lack of Net Neutrality. 

Craigslist appears to be being blocks by Cox Communications

The corrosive effect of big money, and lobbyists willing to spend it to buy legislation. 

I go away from reading my RSS reader (in this case Google Reader), I come back - I have over 1000 posts in my reader.

Sigh.

To save me going through 1000 posts - integral, spiritual, and tech mainly - what articles over the last week and a half were really good?