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STICKY BLOG: Intro to the 43 Tools Blogging

NOTE: This blog is not updated anymore. The topic it covered has moved to the Main Blog Notes from a Sustainopreneur, e. g. categorized "Tools - Approaches - Enablers", or "Social Media".

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Hi, Dear Visitor and Reader,

Where do you come from? Why did you end up here?

You could always step forward and add yourself a comment to this Top Post - yes, Always On Top, featured - if you find yourself and your stream of life worth traceable for me :).

Six questions, answered.

? What it is...

This blog, http://blog.43tools.com, is a complimentary blog, living side by side, on equal terms in importance and dignity, to my main one (Sustainopreneurship Dot Biz), where tools here covers the actual and practical means on how to reach a sustainable world mainly through business activity and creative results-oriented organizing - Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability. Business with a Cause. Sustainability Entrepreneurship. Sustainopreneurship.

In other words, if my main blog Notes from a Sustainopreneur focuses 'what' with current development of entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainability, 43tools blog covers 'how'.

Many of the tools and approaches for sustainopreneurship shares entrepreneurial tools at large, so the degree of generalization for principles and practices goes beyond sustainopreneurship. Entrepreneurship in general is strongly interpreted as "creative organizing", and given the developments especially with the world wide web circulating the internet infrastructure - a machine now beyond its 5000th day, and still no downtime, talk about technical sustainability! - the creative opportunities on how to do stuff with web applications and services is quite focused on this blog.

In fact, entrepreneurship in general is challenging, but entrepreneurship for sustainability is even more challenging, and thus gets even more dependent on creativity in the organizing process. Branding, networking, collaborating, promoting - all has to be extremely quick and cost-effective since sustainopreneurial ventures have both harder time to get the people with the right mindset and also must find beyond mainstream methods for promotion, due to the scarceties of good people and good, patient money for financing. And the message of 'business with a cause' is somewhat a reconstruction using business means to solve world problems, the 'not-for-profit mindset' commitment for the cause coupled with a 'for-profit business professionalism' in the doing - hybrid defined as 'for-prosperity' businesses.

So, talking about tools. This is the 'tool colophon' for this blogging and webbing: It is a blog that uses a blog tool from Typepad, www.typepad.com, a blog that got inspired by its name from 43things, 43places, 43folders etc, originally from David Allen's practical and hands on approach to get things done.  A static Web Page is created by using Google Pages, www.googlepages.com: http://www.43tools.com, a domain name registered through www.godaddy.com and redirected to the page using Google Pages. And yes, in that page comes a summary revoiced in the sidebar here.

As you see, along the way here - I refer to tools used in the process, so it is basically and literally taking to practice the ideas developed and covered since maybe the "difference engine" (the proto-computer made by Charles Babbage in the 19th C) was invented, as the greatest step since Gutenberg in info dissemination.

The semantic web is here, and the tools are there to take us further, maybe to reinvent ourselves in the end.

! Yes.

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? Why is it...

Maybe a YouTube (www.youtube.com)  illustration works better from the guys behind Digital Ethnography - an Action Research community. Where YouTube is one of the 43tools in this respect, that helps us share moving pictures that would be making the Lumiere brothers stunned in awe and amazement! This creates a back-bone in the rationale to use virtual tools in the focus of virtual organizing, and thus the focus on virtualities here on this blog!

? Where is it...

It is here, through http://blog.43tools.com, and maybe also a Wiki is commencing over time. But there is alot of related stuff going on in this arena, to say the least. This blog is not about technology, is a blog about people, working - living - loving - sharing - creating - together.

And stuff to help us do so. Sometimes technological. In that order. People first.

? When it is...

I post in the manner when stuff actually enters my everyday life, a direct experience, and when I create distance and reflection around the tools as well, after some period of use. Also, too look beyond the obvious, and also collating stories where the interaction in between different tools are creating good work-flow stories and illustrative anecdotes. There are alot of buzz and review sites for all the literally thousands of tools that shows up, and I have no priority to go there in that hive in that manner with several blogs a day.

I would rather post in the manner e. g. one of the most influentual blogger in this arena, the creator behind TechCrunch, does annually - "Web apps I could not live without". Tried, tested, filtered, and entry to everydayness. He ends up in the two annual lists so far with maybe 20+ apps. Of thousands.

In general: Who would question a phone today? Yeah, we cannot live without it.

But for the recent snap-shot and shared discoveries, I refer to my blinklist with tag 43tools for the significant late timestamped discoveries, that blows my mind in the first impression!

http://www.blinklist.com/andersabrahamsson/43tools

But! The blogging takes a wider approach when blogs and articles are posted in the main stream post! Sometimes even philosophical in the midst of the practical and applied. Also, offline approaches to things, such as meeting facilitation methods and self-organizing practice is explored - on how to create, collaborate and organize.

? How is it...

It is scanning stuff that enters "Anders' World" start page I have in my Flock browser (www.flock.com - "the browser for me and my friends" - a Firefox on Steroids! - where the My World Page of Flock is customized to be exactly that - my workd!). Two streams are there - my friend's updates from Facebook and Twitter imported and the RSS Feeds subscribed to. There, I have my discoveries.

? Who is...

Whois? Isn't that a service that helps us to see who is behind a Domain Name Registration? Is there a Whois for People Identities? How can we upload our identity? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? How can we transfer ourselves without missing the vitals of our beings through the net?

As you see - I love questions more than answers, and that is certainly a part of "me" - but just for the sake of "me"-ing, I have a collection of ID tools online-wise at different spots - Typepad about page, Wink, ClaimID etc.

And the sum of my deeds and the rest of me is greater than me since I am not alone in this world, in the same manner as the sum of ourselves in the community is greater than "we".

So I would rather go beyond "me" as often as I can, since "me" is a trap where collective intelligence never can evolve if "me" is only voiced. Thus, I hope the Wiki to evolve over time. Begin by comment here or trackback there, if you find this stream attracting you.

Abrahamsson, tooled. But, anyways - I would let you go to the About link, just to have a summary, and maybe also www.slice.nu for the brand I use as the entity / identity I keep as the formal "sender" for this - SLICE Service and Publishing™ - one of the five ventures I am part of running (link is going to a graphical illustration to relate the ventures in a simple format using CMAP - conceptual mapping - I call it my Action Map).

For the real-time format, I am streamed online in Twitter format as well, where this blog is fed as well through twitterfeed upon new posting - http://www.twitter.com/sliceonline :). My twitter feed is  quite focused only on my professional adventures, whereas I have some private/personal streams (blog, microblog and mobile mediablog) named Etwas Anders. To include ALL professional and personal/private streams into one aggregated feed, I have a lifestream over at Friendfeed - http://friendfeed.com/andersabrahamsson.

At Slice Dot Nu I have a website in an extended business card format, which actually uses the four pages of my physical business card on each of the four pages as picture headers :).

So, that's it.

Enjoy!

Peace,
Anders

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NOTE: This post was orignally posted 27MARCH2007, and re-edited and updated 22AUGUST2008.

Time to shake things alive: The series of stories of my tools July 2008 - with reflections

This blog has been significantly silent, since there was so much other stuff coming in the way and not having enough stability to give it a decent quality. But as I have done lately, some updates on all my Typepad pro-blogging two out of three (Sustainopreneurship, DJ Anders) done, and this marks the third.

Themes for this blog has been set by the static intro page on www.43tools.com, and there are three main tag dimensions who intersect in this stream;

• Activities - Communicating, Collaborating, Creating, Networking, Organizing, Publishing, Resourcing, Meeting, Sharing ...
• Tools - Blog, Wiki, Social bookmarking, Virtual Office, Unconferencing, Email, Project management, Bootstrapping, Virtual hard drive, Gadgets, Virtual calendar, Web publishing ...
• Social Phenomena - Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Social media, Citizen journalism, Sustainability ...

In this little tag cloud it is very, very stormy, and keeping straight in the eye of this storm, is worse than to try to survive on a sand hill in a desert (or being funded by a venture capital firm from the road with the same name...). And to make a clearance when it is cloudy like this, you can end up being even more confused. In the bottom line I think we see a society that will undergo a tremendous re-institutionalization (i. e. replacing old institutions with organizational inspiration from the church, the military services or the university with new in the peer2peer networked society - that still takes shape in a chaotic manner).

To make all this abstract reasoning turning into something concrete, I will choose one of these three tag categories to structure a presentation of my virtual everydayness, and point to all the tools I use. If I choose "social phenomena" it gets to abstract. Those are thematic, rather than category to structure something around. If I use tools themselves, we get lost in categories where the means become an end. So - I rather use the activities, the core elements of every process they are a part of, as a support to make something semi-understandable. And human-information technology interface is in the core of what we try to capture with the term "social media", with significant process change on how you do stuff, alone and together.

And what could be more concrete to show my everydayness work environment - the browser screenshot? I have done it before, and now again. Things change, so this will be the fixed point to return to in a dynamic change. Taking departure from this screenshot, a series of blog postings will be published.

My virtual toolbox for...

- Communicating

- Communicating

- Collaborating

- Creating

- Networking

- Organizing

- Publishing

- Resourcing

- Meeting

- Sharing

So, all these will be subject of separate blog postings where connections in between the tools will be done in the posting, and the connection on respective social phenomena listed above done here and there in the postings and more deeper beyond going through all these activity writings.

Is silence a tool?

I wonder how you do when you do nothing.

I wonder how you hear when you hear nothing.

I wonder how you can use silence as a means to reach higher ends of activity.

After all, in the world where there seems to be no limit to what creativity can stretch, and e. g. new web apps are generated once-in-a-minute alpha-beta-gamma versions, and Facebook owns you (or at least your attention ;), will time offline be the sparks of space where the truly big and generative insight breakthroughs appear?

Fixed like glue at the screen, I have experienced that you mostly are a trap of old pattern and thoughts just doing what you do the same manner as yesterday, while actually just go and wash the dishes can make you think the unthinkable, and taking a shower gets you to a new idea you never had visited in your over-noised head before.

Just some thought - silence maybe is the best way to separate very silent, almost humming, little signals from the noise you get drowned in.

So - off this blog, out and think the unthinkable, before you do the undoable!

Peace,
Anders

PS. My list of "these tools I do use" will be published as a big update, now when I found my everydayness web experience merge, and listing "Web 2.007" as this year's list. Actually, that name came to me while writing this blog post. Maybe it was latent while I was sleeping, who knows? Now, I brought it to surface :). DS.

Testing a footer...and the "grandma test"

Just doodling around a bit. Everydayness of the tool-explorer. Considering the end of last post, I have now added a code snippet in the notes/clippings in my Flock Browser, and I switch to Edit HTML mode in the Typepad posting page and copy/paste it. I know there is some way to tweak so it always appear in the bottom, but I am not that proficient in CSS and all that thang. I am just a power user and one willing to tell stuff to developers what would be good from a user perspective.

I want everything to pass the "grandma test". If your grandma can work it out, you are in business.

Think of that.

OK, now I ping Typepad developers over at Six Apart, Inc.;

How can I add a fixed sig to everyone of my posts without the tiresome repetitive procedure I described in this blog post?

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Thoughts&Tools » Part 000: "Information wants to be free" - or on how to make a living offline

There is a constant drive to things online will drive away at zero cost, and that is monetary cost. For the user. First. And for the producer - a little bit later. I mean, time and energy,  attention, and passion isn't something you buy in a shop, but for the financial capital there is an asymptotic drive towards zeroizing. Learning how to leverage in this world with an increasing oppurtunity to make money though information-shuffeling in other media, indirectly, is the key. Offline.

Some posts lately have reminded me of this phenomenon, what to price, and what not, e. g. TechCrunch and their Web App 101 school. And their note on CD Sales down 20 percent. DJ's make their bulk money from appearances, not their musical production. Authors on speaking gigs and fuelling up events, and servicing offline to clients with high price tags, not book sales. At the same time, the copyright industry constantly battles towards those who want to spread culture, now recently with the risk of killing alot of radio stations on the net with an incredible progressive over time pricing with only Big Media being able to take the price tag with it in the end and killing alot of net radio stations! Will they never give up?

Anyways, if you still want to make money from your office, it is getting increasingly harder to stay ahead, so my vote maybe if you want to make a living by living your making if you don't want that much of public appearances is to get into some sort of production of physical stuff or trading, and then sustainable production and trade all categories (I will post about that in more detail over at my main blog www.sustainopreneurship.biz).

Anyways, still, there is the possibility to make money from premium services from the tools I cover here in this blog. When a service is good, and you want more from it, then you are prepared to pay. But - if you want people to discover it - some supportive engines are great to get your surfer there. And maybe one of the best tricks here is to have a free eBook as a semi-promotional tool, but not a book that is filled with your service web address - then it is not going to be long-lived - rather the massively good ideas that motivated the service in the first place. Ideas that can apply elswhere and make the world a better place in other aspects, to create a positive change.

This brings me to the point on wondering: Why do 37signals still not give away their book Getting Real for free - in the PDF format? In the beginning, they only gave away some sample chapters. OK, now the book is available in web pages, one chapter per web page. But, no, the PDF is still $19, and 10-reader company licenses $49??? Volume rebate for something that is just bits in the end, and fully replicable? 20 000 in spread? Bad for such a great package of ideas to rest behind pricey friction and unneccesary firewalls like that - after all, a printout with plenty of space of sidenotes is fuelling creativity! (Sorry, all the trees, I have to print sometimes - when I am writing myself, mostly.) Otherwise, reading on screen is all ok, just for info. But this book, Getting Real, signals something else, and is worth to have offline in print, since it connects directly to what you are doing, and thus inspires to note-taking. And sometimes reading out in the sun is not that bad, right? Especially when spring arrives, as it has here in eastern Sweden!

So, I thought they should do like Seth Godin and his Ideavirus. He posted recently this great story, about the launch of the book "Unleashing the Ideavirus". In fact, it was through an article in the print edition of Fast Company, yes, that I bought offline :), that led me to the idea-world of Seth, and the free eBook "Unleashing the Ideavirus". Yes, I was in the first loop of downloaders of this book soon to come seven years ago, that is dealing primarily with an adaption of the theory of memes into the marketing and business sub-worlds. His spread-to-hard-drive to date is not 20 000. Not 200 000. No, it is probably somewhere around 2 000 000+. Yes, a smashing 2 million!

In a post over at TechCrunch, the co-founder of 37signals, Jason Fried, is quoted and admits that they are keen on not to give away too much for free. That's ok with me - someone has to pay your rent and food. But this can be a drawback if it is drawn to hard as a principle, and that is to give away too little! With their latest release, for the nightmare and pain of keeping track of contacts and actions, a relief for all kinds of RM, relationship management, called HighRise, they even had to take a backfire from the first adopters, so they had to give more for free! Too greedy, and you risk loose it all. In fact, the uploading features of documents for free over at Zoho Planner has made my shift away from Backpack, since they charge for attaches to be made to pages.

Sorry, Guys!

So, let's end with a little wisdom on this Thought Note.

"There is enough in the world for a man's need, but not enough for man's greed" as Gandhi said.

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Some pennies of thought there, given away for *free*, from me.

And you are not allowed to make money on it by selling a copy ;). But you are free to use the text to make your life better, and ultimately the world, right? And you can even make the text better by remixing any way you want! Yeah. Just tell me where you do it, it is fun to see where ideas spread :). If you blog, ping me back with a track-back!

So for the spreading rights, my favourite Creative Commons "some rights reserved" - in between public domain and copyright licenses - are two.

The CC license statement ending this post applies to ALL my online writings, unless else stated. And I will be better stating it, too in the future :).

What is your idea? Where do you want to see it spread? And how?

This was an intro post with sequels to come in a new series: Look out for next piece of T&T: Thoughts&Tools. I hope it to be the dynamite for those who wants to blow away people's minds and create massive change :). Yeah. TnT :).

Grab the feed (what is an RSS feed?), - click here to add to your fav feed reader and subscription service - so you don't miss a post ;)! How do you like that idea :) ?

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Capitalizing on Creative Commons - relaying a warning from Seth Godin

I mailed Seth Godin today, on prompt from Amazon on his "new" book Everyone is an Expert, that in fact launched as an ebook under Creative Commons licensing: I was wondering what was "new" about it.

It was not new. Don't buy it.

He explained why today in his blog. So - don't buy the book - download it for free and do not waste money on the book. Make money on the website it points to as a background book motivating for the launch - Squidoo. To double on the use and leverage on the content - use HubPages too - they are complimentary. Squidoo seems to be great for SEO your keywords, like Sustainability Entrepreneurship, but HubPages right now is better it seems, getting it to the first page (Squidoo to the second). Collectively, they've made those keywords 1.1m hits together, pointing to the ideas I want leverage to in relation to these - you know it: Sustainopreneurship :).

And Amazon: If you don't take away that book from your assortment - or point to the book where you get it for free - I will take away my Amazon contextual ads from this blog!

Peace,
Anders

Addendum [Feb 11]: I have responded re: the moral/legal issue (down below). The licence chosen does not prevent someone to make commercial work of it legally, but I think it is morally dubious to capitalize on it anyways, and also to claim the book to be "new" when in fact it was published 2005 in the first place. Moreover, Amazon has let the comment stay in their own page you can get it for free by download - now it is up to the Amazon customer to make her choice. Still, of Business Ethics reasons, I stick to the encouragement to get it off the shelves as I pointed to Amazon, especially since the author himself informs us what is at hand.

(43) Tools for Social Network Facilitators - a new profession?

In my Hub Page on Social-Business Networks, where I have compiled alot of resources for those who want to enjoy the benefits of the power of networks, or rather networking as a verb, I got a comment  from Tim Sandgren as a result of my LinkedIn Answers question where I asked the greater part of my LI Social-Business Network on their comments on it (they only allow 200 connections to be added in each and every round for direct pings), and asked for complimentary references. (If you are a member of LinkedIn, the question is public. Membership is free.)

The first round when I moved the question there in Jan, it was just a test to see where it went, and get caught without direct pings, and I got four answers, one private and three public where the question was closed after 7 days, and the second round I opened it again for direct pings to my network.

Tim's response;

"8. Comment by Tim Sandgren -- 2 hours ago

Very interesting compilation, Anders!

It makes me rethink the idea of being a Social Network Manager (SNM) - almost S&M...   ;-)

SNM is a livelihood (something one can do for a living) where one is emploeyd by the social network, and has the role of helping its members to really benefit from being part of it. This is done through getting to know the people in the network and learning what their passions and interest are. Hence the size of the network should be limited (as stated above in the "rule of Dunbar")."

My response;

"9. Comment by andersabrahamsson -- 1 hour ago

Thank you for your input, Tim! Yeah, you made me rethink "ways of living" when you introduced *your* idea of SNM. S'n'M, yes for sure, it needs another acronym... and "managerial" maybe is too much of command/control 20st century concept? Maybe coordinator/facilitator - or a concept that has not yet been formulated yet?"

With a final line that I will blog more about it here. So here we are.

Conversation: I end up with this question myself - maybe it is Social Network Facilitator, SNF?

I think this concept and way of (making a) living that Tim so brilliantly suggested is worth deeper exploring, and I will put some random posts here and there tagged "social network facilitator" that relates to (t)his suggestion, and also the (43!?) tools to empower and manage the networking as function and process (but not the members!), to make it an everyday profession for everyone that has a deep (com)passionate love for one topic to where you can surround yourself with a maximum of 150 peeps!

The key is what the members expect from the(ir) facilitator and subscribe for the services to make a living of it. What would you appreciate if you were asked this offering and "hit the paypal button to pay for a monthly subscription". (And: Would a t-shirt add extra value to your membership - maybe ;).

What do you think, reader?

On Vox: Giving advice to Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki, author of the Art of the Start among a series of books, and founder of Garage Ventures in Silicon Valley, and one in the team to start up Apple, wrote a blog post about LinkedIn profile total makeover....

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New year - and what happened to "Etwas Anders"?

This blog was before known as Etwas Anders - the virtual Moleskine. When I found myself posting in this blog here (redirected from http://blog.andersabrahamsson.info), I discovered that what dragged my interest was new tools dominated by ICT with some scarce comments, and that offbeat posting offtopic rambling just got elsewhere - or shall I say "not". That led me to change the name of this blog to "43 Tools", where I will share according to its description above.

That unstructured blogging of whatever "me", I have moved to the other service I got a beta invite to in the Summer of 2006, also created by the same galz and guyz as behind Typepad, Six Apart Ltd, that is - and now growing exponentially over the past months since release. "Vox". I left my beta account idle there, since I did not know where to fit it in in my universe - now I see the purpose. For my everydayness blogging on "whatever", from now on I refer to http://andersabrahamsson.vox.com - where from now on http://blog.andersabrahamsson.info is pointing to. I will also notify with links when something significant is added to the web-o-sphere in general from that stream, so in order to keep yourself updated at large on my whereabouts, you should add your feed reader (www.newsgator.com online readble from everywhere, or internally in your browser recommended www.flock.com based on Firefox recommended!) with the RSS feed subscription from my Vox blog! Also expect some multi-media experiences there :). After all, music is a big part from me, so that might show up there besides my DJ blog :). And a DV camera has been added to my toolbox, so some signing on to YouTube to expect as well!

So, with that move, to all my readers - happy new 2007!

Peace,

Anders

Wetpaint, TechCrunch and hosted wikis

TechCrunch now points us to the launch of WetPaint, a new hosted wiki. I checked it out while it was in closed beta, and when they only had launched some own wikis from their platform on some topics like dogs and pregnancy. I did the heavy research of wikis to include in some projects I am involved with (they will be presented in my sustainopreneurship blog). I wanted to share with the world that I thought Wetpaint had some drawbacks and that my choice after sandboxing alot of platform finally selected Stikipad as my hosted wiki of choice. One of my projects used Jotspot for a while, but did not pick up with the users of the project of some kind of learning threshold, not intuitive enough. Stikipad does.

But, the comment (36 published), is still awaiting moderation, and I don't know the reason why it is stuck, so I share it here instead. This is what I wrote contributed:

Anders Abrahamsson Your comment is awaiting moderation.

June 19th, 2006 at 12:15 am

There is a draw-back with the pop-up WYSIWYG editing, I think. And to be fair to this market, Stikipad should be mentioned. It is an incredible easy-to-use wiki, where in fact our project team kinda rejected Jotspot not picking it up because it was not enough easy to use, and after groking systematically the whole scene of hosted wikis, I landed on Stikipad after sandboxing almost everyone.

It is a brilliant and far-away extension of the Instiki Ruby on Rails open-source core, merely used the Instiki as a starting template and taking it far far away from there - made by a small team of two. And with an intense innovation/improve rate.

You can set edit mode into either textile/markup or WYSIWYG/rich text, supports CamelCase, attachment/upload area of 30MB for free account, and of overall user experience certainly deserves the testimonial “the wiki for those who hate wikis”. My testimonial would be “if you love Basecamp and Backpack, you will love Stikipad as well”.

All that is not well funded is not automatically bad, to reverse the end note here: If you have less money, you have to work very smart. Less is More, in a different twist, or?

Link: http://www.stikipad.com

Peace, Anders

Sustainopreneurship* Facilitator

http://www.andersabrahamsson.info

*Sustainopreneurship = Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Wetpaint Launches: Wikis Evolve

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UPDATE: It was let thru moderation, guess there was an overseas flaw (noon here in Sweden, 3am in West Coast US, 6am in East Coast US).

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FON: open/closed - copyleft/copyright?

Most businesses believe in secrecy. We don´t. Most businesses believe in patents. We don´t. We are an open source company. We are also a blogged company that has so far not done any advertising, nor currently engages a PR firm. We live off the originality of our ideas. So after presenting my latest R&D ideas internally, I have decided to blog them one by one so readers have an opportunity to comment on them.You are welcome to read them. You are welcome to comment. You are welcome to “steal” our ideas, but what we ask in return is that if you copy them, let us know and make them “FON ready”. We are open source, so you can just download our firmware. If you are a hardware maker you are welcome to conctact me directly. Same if you are a programmer. You should also know that FON licenses its brand at no cost. We pay nothing to have products be FON ready and use our brand and we ask for no money either. We already have very large hardware makers such as Accton, who have signed licensing agreements with us.

From: R&D Projects at FON - Martin Varsavsky blog

Martin Varsavsky is the hot argentinian super-entrepreneur behind the FONero recruitment of FON revolutionaires, with a mission to get the whole world WiFi, as it seems. You can read and surf around the spanish startup at the FON website.

Of course, as a modern entrepreneur of today, he has his own blog (Michael Dell is obviously old school, read the whole Dell Hell story that Jeff Jarvis started off and backtrack it from there...).

Yes, as predominantly Ed and I worked ourselves through, now the beta version of a business principle for the 21st century has muddled through to this:

Transparency > Trust > Transaction > Transfer > Transformation

(I will have that elaborated in a separate blog essay when it is ready to go beyond intuitive, need to research it up a bit further in the conversation)

Fine so far.

But at the bottom of Martin's blog, you find;

Copyright © Martin Varsavsky

and (!)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

(?!?!?)

This makes me just puzzled. The FON software is Open Source, the brand is License-free, but the Martin Varsavsky WORDS are copyrighted. Or - are they CC?

Confusion, Chaos, Conflict. Life not without it. But now I have the first level here. Confusion. And I am not here to create chaos this time (at least ;). And hopefully getting the Conflict (or at least the contradiction) sorted out along the way.

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