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Ultimate Dashboard of Life

Shawn — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:20:00 +0000

One of the dreams connected with Beyond One World has been the idea of having a dashboard available to everyone showing in real time the current status of the world(s). Being able to drill down into it to actually see where you can make a difference. The ability for the idea to work though would require organisation and processing power way beyond what is available today but its significance would be to show the real status of the world as a whole and enable people to think globally – even universally – about what was going on.

I was inspired to come back and write up this post though by something tweeted by Tony Robbins – something that approaches the idea and gives anyone looking some imagination of what the dashboard may do. The tweet pointed to http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php a page put up by Peter Russell ‘Spirit of Now’. The page contains a Flash applet that was created at http://www.poodwaddle.com and looking around I saw a few interesting ones that might give inspiration as to what the dashboard might feel like. I have collected them here…

Poodwaddle.com

Let me know what you think?

Forums swamped with spam!!!

Shawn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:33:40 +0000

Well I have been away for a little while and although the blog has been well protected by Akismet I see the forums have been inundated with spam posts!!! The whole model of Google’s search system feels ridiculous when I think why these people are doing it – I guess I don’t blame them exactly, they are trying to find ‘black hat’ ways to promote their sites but hitting on sites such as this to achieve their aims. It feels sometimes that the whole Internet will sink in spam, duplication and nonsense reviews for every product or service that has any value.

Anyway I’ll be back to clean up soon. If anyone has any suggestions on how to prevent spam on their forums without restricting anonymous messages I’ll be pleased to know. The only thing I can think of at the moment is to confuscate all of the urls and make them ‘nofollow’. In any case I will be cleaning them up and kicking them out.

It is at moments like this I really do with the Zeitgeist guys take hold – the one advantage I guess of a resource based economy would be the end of this incessant noise on the net called spam…

If you want to change the world for the better join here

Shawn — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:22:06 +0000

Do we need another wake up call?

Even trying to stay away from BeyondOneWorld for a while I still stumble upon conspiracy after conspiracy. With all the videos and information around about it and after recently watching a whole raft of them you really really begin to get numb to it all. I guess that in itself could be considered part of the conspiracy, a reason why we can still see these videos if they really existed and why an elite would allow us to question anything to do with any order. Or maybe I am just thinking too much… or not enough… or… well, let’s get on with it.

This video by John Nadal appeared about a year ago and covers many of the concerns of the current age with a beginning starting with probably the biggest metaphor in the Matrix – Do you take the Red Pill or the Blue One?

Well I watched it and it did raise quite a few more questions than I was aware of – and I suppose that’s not a bad thing – I am obviously still weary of many others that I have seen. I do find it annoying that the pressures of ‘getting on with the important things’ today get in the way and I can never find the time to check out each fact for myself. I even made it through the whole two and a half hours as I toiled on with other things and I actually loved the ending.

Not because it finally finished! - but because this time there were no sales made to a solution, no site to visit to get your truth fix, no certain answers were given at all just a convincing message and a really great wildlife clip at the end. Well done John.

Well, Do I take the red pill or the blue one?

A taste of the red pill has left me a little sick I confess and leaves me in a world without obvious facts or truth. The blue one would allow me to just get on with life and forget about all this but I do love the truth- even if it does hurt!

So again I know that I will keep coming back to this until it is found. For myself, I have no idea if any of the video is the truth! But I certainly wish I did!

I know enough now to realise that certainly something is wrong with the world and the way we are ignorant to, intolerant or mistreat each other, but then again I see wonderful things that people do and believe again that there is something worth fighting for.

I just wish I knew how to fix what is going wrong. To say the answer is somewhere in the message of this site would be a little ambitious of me, because if it is actually here, then I really have no idea of how to make it a reality! I actually need everybody to tell me – that in itself is a ridiculous dilemma. Anyway, on with the film,

So – I wish I could take on the role of Morpheus and attempt to save the world, offer a solid choice. However I am just an ordinary person, with an ordinary life, no real skills except for possibly ideas, some techie stuff and recently surprisingly some writing.

So all I can think of right now is:

if you feel like there is some, if any, truth to what these videos are trying to tell us, or you feel like me, there is something wrong with the way we run the world,
if you think that everybody may be able to stand together as true partners in the world and decide equally amongst us all how we should do things for good.

Then (I am not sure why this makes me a little embarassed but I’ll try it anyway) join me, let me know what you think, you can post here, join me as a friend on Facebook (let me know that you are coming in from here though) or just follow on Twitter at BeyondOneWorld if you just want to be a spectator for now. Or, I hate to say, ignore it completely and make some unfair judgement upon my sanity and move on – but then again you read this far didn’t you? – OK, the blue pill it is then…

Let’s see if we can put together what our ideals are, start from there, see if we can get others to do the same, taking an equal share in it.

Let’s see what we can work out – by joining in you take an equal share in the result – we may be able to bring in those who really can help make a difference and together finally find a solution and build up the framework that we all can agree on.

I know I have some well formed – maybe even misguided you may think – opinions on here already on how things could be, so feel free to read and offer your own perspective. I do realise it is the opinion of just one though and it may or may not be the right way, what we are looking for is the opinion of all.

Though I do believe just one thing in all my time on this, I think it IS possible to get full agreement on things, by everyone, if we start off with thinking about our highest ideals.
We are so much more alike than different… really…

Project 10 to the 100 Failed?

Shawn — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:24:06 +0000

Well my self imposed absence from this idea also meant I missed out on the voting for the Google Project 10 to the 100. I resolved to myself that this idea wouldn’t make it into the final 100 because I knew that unless I could somehow bring some coherency to it then nobody would really be motivated to get involved. I was really impressed to see all the great ideas that were posted up onto YouTube also – a lot of people really put an immense amount of effort to try to bring these ideas into the light. Funnily the last time I looked at any comments written on my video presented I got ‘Wierd Wacko’!!! – Huh Thanks – Mildly embarrassed by this I decided I wouldn’t go forward with presenting the idea any more but work on it on my own, in my own time. My own personal weakness came into play I must admit and I almost resolved to bin the lot and hope everyone would forget about my strange ideas and the struggle to work them out. I was really only pulled back when I saw that the voting for Project 10 to the 100 had been completed!!! This stirred it all up again and I had to look to see what happened. However, what happened to my notification? Never mind, maybe I lost it in the post…

I am somewhat confused with what Google has done though – they seem to have take the best of the ideas and taken it all for themselves. Is this really what has happened?

I know it promised good Karma if nothing else to the 150,000 who worked on their best for changing the world for a better place, so maybe that is all they get, no more mention by Google, into the archives of history go all the ideas, if indeed they are accessible, most I know are now OWNED by the company.

I feel Google has made a serious mistake here, my own humble opinion it may be, but I feel strongly that this is exactly what will underpin their downfall.

They are a company – If you have read anything on here you will know my sentiment on that kind of identity – and they will protect their assets, for their own profits, whether public or private. It is this thinking, especially after reading through all the terms and conditions that made me pull BeyondOneWorld away from using any of Google’s Apps and pulling it into one place out of the way and try to maintain everything myself – hard work!.

The Internet is allowing a real paradigm shift in the way that people interact with the world around them, the company has no future in this shift and Google especially will weaken to the social networks developing apart from them.

Ignore the individual and you lose – the individual and their connections with each other and what they want are the most powerful kinetic driving forces of the Internet.

The rise of Twitter and Facebook allowing for these shared networks I feel will overtake the importance of just information delivery and will be the next step in evolution. Both these companies have scaled well, especially Facebook, with its ability to share applications among millions of users through an interface and a lot more progress will be seen here.

But the main block is still there – it is owned ‘by the few ‘and used by the many.

They hold all the information and media produced by individuals who only wish to share to each other as friends and neighbours. How can this be OWNED!!!

I did set up ADS0.com as a way of figuring out how to make the social network completely owned by the individuals that use it but there is so much work to do to get that under way that again, it has taken second place to the more immediate priorities of life. Also straight away there were attempts by quite a few to use it as a means of gaining Pagerank so I had to block (most of) them.

Somehow though, we do need to work this out. We need to share completely in the responsibility of how things will work. It needs to be totally transparent and everyone must have an equal voice in it. In essence the theme behind BeyondOneWorld – or whatever anyone wants to call it. It cannot be through some technocracy controlled by a limited set of our understanding of the world, but driven by the best of everything that we now, putting in place our most ideal aspirations as a means of directing our effort.

This whole process rises up through all our personal interactions with each other and becomes a whole means of government. I don’t want to use the word democracy any more as it still requires a center of power, all the power must be completely flattened and allow every person in the world decide on exactly what, how and why things should be done. I favour the term Omnicracy – and I should put together an article to describe the meaning – because every individual has an equal amount of power to make any change. The only way these changes can be agreed on will be through some kind of social network, allowing people to discuss, agree or disagree, collaborate or even play at any time they wish, for their own individual reasons.

The problem is … and always was … what to do next …

In essence, I feel that Project 10 to the 100 has failed the people who dedicated their time and their best ideas and the spotlight will be now on the entity Google to make the world a better place – on their own.

BeyondOneWorld and the future

Shawn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:42:25 +0000

I have taken a little break from Beyond One World but it will not be for long. I realised after a year of writing here that actually not many people are visiting and when they do they probably have no idea of what it is about. It’s a shame, it’s no fun and I really should think about making the whole thing interesting. I mean I find it interesting, it’s become my passion, my obsession almost, because I absolutely believe that it is the right idea. But if I cannot find others with that same passion then this site is useless. So I need to stop being rubbish at marketing it and learn how to do it properly.

So I have entered the world of Internet marketing and I am actually thoroughly enjoying it. I always knew about it in theory but my experiences of years ago doing this are not really as good as putting it into practice. Let’s see how it goes…

So I have separated my personal Twitter account from BeyondOneWorld and created one exclusively for this at http://twitter.com/BeyondOneWorld. Follow this if you are interested in the progress here and do not want to hear my own ramblings at http://twitter.com/shawndm. Or perhaps vice versa. You are welcome at either.

They’ll sack our doctors because they have a sense of humour?

Shawn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:54:54 +0000

Hospital staff at the A&E of Swindon’s Great Western Hospital face being fired for playing the ‘Lying Down Game’ on Facebook during a night shift. They added pictures of themselves lying down on the ward floor, resuscitation trollies and the helicopter pad which were then found by the hospital bosses. They have all been suspended and are awaiting disciplinary proceedings. Apparently they broke Health and Safety rules, the NHS Rules of Conduct and
it was deemed by the hospital bosses as totally unprofessional but at no time was patient care compromised.

The ‘Lying Down Game’ is where you get a picture taken of you lying face down in an unusual location with your arms by your side, palms facing inwards, toes pointing down as if you were standing – but horizontally. The game was started in the earliest days of Facebook and although of no use or sense to anybody has sparked the imagination and humour of around 56,000 people from all over the world.

Now what follows is my humble opinion on this.

In my efforts to build up Beyond One World to something meaningful I am often looking around to see where our highest ideals are defined and of course places where it just seems so have been obliterated from existence.

What on earth are we doing turning against the very people who spend their lives in the service of others. These health workers, some of them doctors are having to face on a daily basis the less glamorous side of our existence, when people are rushed in sometimes in a terrible condition and requiring immediately the care of someone who can help them. They face issues of death, issues of sometimes gross stupidity of the public and mostly those things that many of us cannot face. Must we forget that they are human? Do we want them to be robots devoid of feelings – even of care? These are people who are not paid excesses of money – unlike those higher up who we seem to want to bail out in times of trouble.

The management has suspended them?!! The ones who face the cutting edge day by day because they did something silly – something they and many others found humorous. Remember they were on a night shift – I am sure they weren’t doing this at a time when patients were needing their assistance.

To be suspended for taking harmless pictures??? OK, some rules were broken and they need to be dealt with in the usual way – Imagine we suspended every health worker every time they made some health and safety mistake.

It is a ridiculous situation brought about in an overly forceful way that need not ever to have happened. They had a sense of humour – something very human – I am personally glad they found some way of dealing with the stresses of their job in a harmless way.

I don’t know what my ramblings here can do to help them but say they should have public support – many others out there feel the same. In fact if anyone knows of any petition or other idea to help then please let me know – I will sign up to it.

Maybe those responsible should be forced to play the ‘lying down game’ in the disciplinary meeting and published on Facebook – OK, a bit extreme but I found it quite funny

SOURCES:

Please watch this and Have a GREAT day!

Shawn — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:29:32 +0000

A lot of my reading on this subject has steered across many conspiracy theories and it became very tiring, so much so that I haven’t bothered catching up with the World News in the forums. Also in the run up to September 11th there are many programs on the TV covering what happened that day and the after effects. My wife and I have felt quite heartbroken with the stories of the last calls made by loved ones that day and the suffering that surrounded this catastrophe. Well, I’m glad to say doing some research later I found this old YouTube video posted into the Zeitgeist Movement Forums – ironic in a way.

I hope you find it inspiring and uplifting. The secret is speaks of is in the core of any positive thinking book and teacher of motivation, like Tony Robbins and so on. In my own experience it is sometimes all you have left to tackle many of the issues that seem to come at you often all at once and if you forget to apply it then believe me, depression follows quickly.

I know it is a bit of a drama at the beginning of the video but bear with it, get the essence of what it is referring to – IMHO it is absolutely important to understand…

So for a bit of inspiration – Watch this!

So please – Have A Great Day!

Do something positive today that you wouldn’t normally do!

If you find any more videos like this then please let us know – either post them or let me know and I will add them.

Let me know if it makes any difference to your day

It is relevant here too because the ideas in this video and other media are SO important that I really want to make sure it makes it into the highest ideals of this project…

What is wrong with the Zeitgeist Movement?

Shawn — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:36:12 +0000

This is a massive conflict with me now.

I am watching the Addendum above after seeing the original and even though they are saying most of what I have suggested here, or even dreamed of, there is a real resistance internally to it and I do not understand why. It should be enough that there was some symbology and imagery that was important to me years ago – even for me to actually be convinced by the logic and arguments put forward.

This has halted my ability to move forward and any thoughts of what Beyond One World frozen until I find the answer – and believe me I would love to not be concerned with its development any more, knowing that these things were being taken care of elsewhere by people with more skills than I.

I keep asking myself also, Who am I to argue with this, no one as yet has subscribed to anything that I have suggested and the Zeitgeist Movement has around a third of a million in membership and is growing rapidly. As it contains much of what is within Beyond One World it has to be right – hasn’t it? But there is a real block that I must understand – I really feel that something is wrong…

With this I probably expose my stupidity, I don’t know and cannot even express or see it. Very humbling…

Do I give this all up and join The Zeitgeist Movement?

Shawn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:31:33 +0000

Found this on YouTube – a movie produced by the Zeitgeist Movement.

That is certainly the question now on my mind. I am amazed at all the people involved in it already. Anyhow I haven’t had time to look deeper into it yet and joined the forum as ‘BeyondOneWorld’ and introduced myself.

I am concerned at first look of the video however about the references it is based on. I do remember the ‘Book of the Dead’ stuff from years ago and the connection to the 10 Commandments is a bit loose – there were many many other lines not just (or all of) the 10? Anyway, that’s all from years ago when I was much much younger – Let’s see what happens here…

A radical new idea, get in at the start

Shawn — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:51:44 +0000

This is an idea that needs me to disown it – it is something that needs to be driven by others that collectively have better ideas, different perspectives, more knowledge or more skills than I could ever achieve. So the plan to have a social web here at Beyond One World I have thrown out and picked something more useful. For one ‘Beyond One World’ is a bit of a mouthful and a social web with that name would not be easy to type into the browser. The other reason is that it would need something special to be used by anyone, a good reason for them to choose it in the first place. Well, one of the principles in Beyond One World is that of ownership, not having any corporation or authority tell you how it should work or what information belongs to you. The social web should work exactly as the users desire and not have any corporate marketing directing it or adding advertising to its pages. So I have pulled in a domain name that is very short and implies this – ADSo.com.

I have put together a website on that domain that has an Open Source social web running on it. It may not look nice now but with membership and direction of how it should work to help us all collaborate together it will achieve exactly what we want it to.

I have placed the important stuff on the main page of ADSo and pasted it in here. Are you going to be first to join in?

ADS0.COM is owned by every member that joins – equally – and of course NO ADS.

The principles being worked out to make this a reality can be found at the Beyond One World Blog.

Absolutely everyone is welcome to join and take part to make this social network all that you would want it to be without any company or organisation behind it.

The aim is to gather together those interested in changing the world finally, to make it a better place, by allowing everyone in it to have an equal stake in it and removing any centralised power and sharing the work and responsibilities.

Even if that sounds a bit daunting to you right now – or you have no idea what this means, there is one ADVANTAGE to getting in and JOINING NOW. That is to stake your claim now and GET YOUR SHORT NAME REGISTERED now before someone else does.

The other advantage is that you get to say exactly how it should work. You are in control if you want to be…

Any problems with the site, then please let me know in http://forums.beyondoneworld.com.

My hope is that this will be the first step for people to see that we as a people realise that we are all essentially striving for the same things and can collaborate together to remove the problems that face us globally and individually.

Please spread the word – You may know others who may be interested in taking part in this experiment. The more we gather here the more we can develop and improve it and make it something special.

Of course it may not grow very fast, or in the beginning be disorganised, it might break or not be very pretty, or even worse for some unforeseen reason disappear completely – but I personally honestly believe with all my heart that it could be the beginning of the biggest collaborative event in history. Not built by an international organisation, secret or otherwise, or by a government agency or corporation – but by the individuals themselves,for themselves, for each other, for their children, to our highest principles and ultimately helping each other.