Current.com

Sad to see you go:

So long; Sayonara….

Founded some 7 years ago, by then vice president Al Gore, on August 1st, 2005 — to date, Current Tv was the worlds largest leading peer–to–peer user news and information channel; it was the only 24/7 cable/satellite television/broadband news network programmed and, produced with collaborative efforts featuring viewer created content, vanguard journalism from all across the nation and world wide in–so–far….

“With the launch of Current.com, the first fully integrated web and tv platform, users [could] participate in shaping an ongoing stream of news and information that [was] compelling, authentic, and relevant to them.”  —http://www.current.com/

Current Tv is virtually responsible for developing the industries top model with the ground–breaking concept of viewer created content or, (VC2’s).  This content made for roughly one–third of all current’s on–air broadcasting schedule.  These submissions were transmitted via short form, non–fiction video “pods.”  Viewers Created Ad Messages, called (VCAM’s).  In contests, they created commercials for sponsors in support of the station.  Winners received 2k-60k depending where it aired.

VC2

I made this VC2: a short film; w/ Flash, for class in J–School, Ernie Pyle Hall at Indiana University School of Journalism — Fundamentals of Mass Communications Jour–J200….

“Thank You #Cantaloupe”

http://vimeo.com/72973702

“I am an Eagle Scout and I got lost coming here.”

I attended a business brunch Wednesday last week: check out the results; “Thank You #Cantaloupe,” on vimeo now—http://vimeo.com/72973702 #Vimeo

http://final.current.com/so_long.html

This is the official end of Current.

August 20th, 2013.

To Our Faithful Current.com Users:

Current’s run has ended after eight exciting years on air and online. The Current TV staff has appreciated your interest, support, participation and unflagging loyalty over the years.

Your contributions helped make Current.com a vibrant place for discussing thousands of interesting stories, and your continued viewership motivated us to keep innovating and find new ways to reflect the voice of the people.

We now welcome the on-air and digital presence of Al Jazeera America, a new news network committed to reporting on and investigating real stories affecting the lives of everyday Americans in every corner of the country. You can keep up with what’s new on Al Jazeera America and see this new brand of journalism for yourself at http://www.aljazeera.com/america.

Thank you for inspiring and challenging us. We are incredibly proud of what we have been able to accomplish together.

– The Current TV Staff

Sad to see you go.  So long.  Sayonara.

“Be well; understand and, do good — work.”

Scribd

Cliff notes;  the “Green Thoreau”

Now reading:  Chapter 3, Livelihood

Walden, Economy

August 11th, 2013  10:30pm

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it….”

—Henry David Thoreau

That said: I have my answer; over the years or, rather, more particularly the past last three — I’ve been, interning, searching, volunteering, working….  And now, as it turns out, by paying my due diligence, practicing self-discipline, perfecting my own patience, I’m not finding my line of work, indeed it has since found me in-so-doing.

Passion;  Purpose;  Community;  Service;  Man cannot stand a life without meaning:  Meaning, life, liberty and/or, the pursuit of happiness seem very much like trivial pursuits such as compared to fighting the good fight, then again doing the great work.  All else, if otherwise, is meaninglessness.  “Be well; understand and, do good — work.”

(Source: scribd.com)

James Burke://”Burke’s Brains.” And, how ‘Lemony Squeeks, Gin, Tonic and, now Yellow Canaries.’ —[Doyle c.2009/ ‘Research Writing’ Review c. 2013]

In a presentation titled “How Technology is Changing the Way We Think,” James Burke, a well known science historian gave a speech in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater at 7p.m., Monday the 16^th of February 2009.  The event was sponsored by the IU School of Journalism.

In it he discussed what he likes to call “The Future of the Future,” or rather how data is collected and formatted today provides the opportunity to open doors for an unimaginable wealth of information. Furthermore he cites some interesting facts like how “brains have more cells in them than the number of known atoms in the universe,” and compares them with the likes of which each cell stores a specific type of information depending on where it is located within the brain. If each cell represented a particular a brain and a brain represented a node in a network nodes containing a given amount of knowledge and experience, then imagine the unbridled power of our collective consciousness would unleash when we develop the ability to access it in this way. As a matter of fact we already have, it is called the world wide web.

According, James Burke and many others, the vast majority of ‘brains’ as he so affectionately calls them, remain unused. The human brain is composed of a highly sophisticated set of fatty cells; it is comprised of about a hundred billion neurons, roughly 10,000 synapses and thousands of interconnected axons all of which are constantly transmitting, receiving and storing memory. Although, as we may well already know due to current studies and further scientific research, we really only use some ten percent of it consciously. However, much like the human mind, with recent developments concerning information technology and Burkes knowledge mapping the internet will make it possible to store very large volumes of information. In a nutshell, Burke explains that in the same way that axons connect synapses and the synapses to neurons in our brains work, so to do computers, internet and people who use it.

A progressive supporter of science, James Burke is as the Washington post has quoted, “One of the most intriguing minds of the western world,” sitting in on his lecture is proof enough of that. He argues the point that knowledge has been highly valued since before the concept of time was created.