Someone else always solves it first

[greyh]

[UPDATE]: I've removed the friend-only restriction and cleaned up some of my pre-coffee incompleteness.

I'm not sure if you've seen the video of Clay Shirky's talk about the Cognitive Surplus, (thanks to War On Folly for the link) but it caught my attention because he addressed a few of my thoughts that have, until now, remained unformed and

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[jope]

Jason, whom you met momentarily after Iron Man, talks all about this kinda thing in one of his blogs (Eat Sleep Publish) as well as making a full-time day-job of it.

[greyh]

Funny, this post originally began as an email to you where I was going to expound on some of my ideas for solving/addressing these issues. I've left that part out of the LJ post.

I've also realized that I shouldn't post pre-coffee. Some of my post's sentences just end without completing the

I've always maintained that I despise working with web-based applications, using the excuse that php/cgi/perl/ajax and their ilk are hackish and unrefined. (Ok, perl is good, but when wedged into a webapp, it becomes evil).

I'm not so sure that I really despise working with the web. I just don't see anything compelling on it, nor do I have a compelling idea. Maybe to learn anything from Shirky's talk, is to learn that it's through tinkering that the great use becomes apparent. Fail early and often...

Then there's this:

[greyh]

Nice to see you, hbunny.

The trick is getting all that chaos to add up to something greater than zero, right? That is, to defy the Law of Conservation of Chaos.