Welcome
Welcome to my site. I hope you like the fun look. I have a lot of ideas and goals for this site (I’m letting them organically come out).
What is this web site about? It is a place for all things I am interested in, recommend, want to talk about and, well, a clearing house for all things Larry.
What will I talk about? Social Media, Personal Branding, taking control of your life (financially and personally), entrepreneurship, travel, surfing, the environment and innovative technologies for the future (electric cars, alternative energy), topical news, wordpress and blogging, and all things Mac, to name a few.
One of my passions is to teach. I show people how to use their Macs and build websites. One of my goals is to show you how anyone, even if they have never built a website in their life, can to setup a WordPress blog themselves. As well as easily start building a community of readers and commenters on the subject they are most passionate about.
Join the discussion and spread ideas, thoughts and creativity. Maybe we will all learn something cool along the way.
I hope you will come along for the ride. Welcome to the conversation.
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Read MoreWe The People…
After the largest display of unity and action both SOPA and PIPA bills have been shelved. Both bills were backed by Hollywood and the Music Industry, but opposed by Silicon Valley and all online tech interests. Not only that, but millions of web users and site owner too.
The January 18, 2012 Blackout sent a message loud an clear. We the people, still do have power and in these moments we finally get to see it in action.
Arstechnica has the scoop – Click Here
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Read MoreCensored!
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Read MoreThoughts: The next steps for OWS and all of us…
Something is amiss in our country and the whole world. A few have gained control over almost every aspect of our lives starting with a debt based system of money. Add to this an archaic educational system, un responsive government(s) and we have a recipe for disaster.
But their is a great hope. The People!
When we move in one unified direction together we can alter the very course of the future and make a planet where all thrive.
There is not a shortage of food or money, rather there is a distribution issue along with hoarding by a few.
This great article goes over the areas in our life we need to start taking control of as individuals and as communities. We must be proactive and in a creation mode to create the world we want to live in!
Please read this article linked below and share it widely.
READ: Open Letter to the Occupy Movement: It’s Time for the Ultimate Occupation
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Read MoreThe Illusion of Choice: Media Consolidation (Infographic)
Are you aware that most of what you see on tv and in other media is controlled by a few? I am posting by permission the infographic from The Frugal Dad to help spread the information around. Click on the post title to view
Source: Frugal dad
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Read MoreInternet for the entire world
Game Changer:
Two brothers in Canada are looking to bring internet to the other 99% of the world. Small villages and farms around the world could get internet via their existing cell phones with the worlds lowest cost tablet and new technology that reduces the data needed so even slow networks will work.
This is truly a game changer and is much needed to allow ideas and information to flow into areas isolated in many ways. Imagine the young boys and girls who might (and will) do amazing things once connected to their piers in other cities and continents!
This is an excerpt of the article. Link to the full article is below.
In the recent past, attempts to digitally link Indians has wagered heavily on widespread Wi-Fi access that simply doesn’t exist. Only a tiny fraction of Indian families have Wi-Fi at home.
However, 800 million people in India, and five billion people around the world, from all walks of life, have cell phones. In India, they pay about $5 a month for phone service. That cellular phone network is what DataWind technology, developed over several years in Montreal, keyed in on.
“We have a technology that reduces the amount of data required to [...] Continue Reading…
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Read MoreSupply and Demand for Knowledge Assets – Ingenesist Project
Today I follow up my thoughts on “Blow Up Your TV, Throw Away Your Paper” from last week with a post from Dan Robles and the Ingenesist Project. He says it better than I can so here is an excerpt. You can read the rest on his blog.
Link at bottom of excerpt:
If we follow the Wall Street accounting model, the supply and demand for knowledge assets are cast against the factors of production; land, labor, and capital. The typical corporate human resource department looks to the community for labor units within commuting distance to a factory, and who are willing to rent their time in exchange a minimum amount of money.
But Land is Obsolete
Technology has made the idea of “land” as a factor of production almost obsolete. Knowledge assets travel over the Internet and can be deployed and organized in many ways across long distances without a factory. Indeed there are server farms and automation houses where things are made if needed – but these are hardly factors of production as they once were.
What exactly is a Labor unit again?
Machines have replaced much of what we once called “labor”. I am sitting at Starbucks where a smiling robot is [...] Continue Reading…
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Read MoreBlow Up Your TV, Throw Away Your Paper…
Blow Up Your TV, Throw Away Your Paper……
Song writer John Prine’s words from Spanish Pipedream seem more relevant today than they did in 1971, 40 years ago. Not that he is saying that you should become a Christian. Rather that you should go out and find your spirituality, and ultimately control of you own life, on your own. Unplug, disconnect and free your mind (sounds sort of Matrix-esc).
Chorus from Spanish Pipedream:
“Blow Up Your TV,
throw away your paper
Go to the country,
build you a home
Plant a little garden,
eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own”
Many people seem to have woken up and are starting to say “I’m not gonna take it any more!”. Wall Street and the Banks are the current target and for good reason. If there are modern day pirates then they float on concrete seas and the wind in they’re sails is the freedom to pillage the american populous at will via Washington DC.
I won’t take anything away from these folks camping in the street and protesting as it’s simply part of the way things need to play out. But it’s not the solution, the end all, nor the future. Trying to bring back jobs, [...] Continue Reading…
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