Alternatives to the contradictions in the Capitalist Designed System

Comment on recent Facebook Post with emotional video attached.

The thing I think that business folks and baby boomers do not get is that we do not need and many are waking up to not even wanting a society that measures it's health by Gross Domestic Product while the health of the Earth deteriorates. GDP is a corporate product sold to us by a relatively small group of students of the Neo-Liberal Capitalist THEORY.  There are alternatives to the contradictions in the Capitalist Designed System. Here is a couple short videos and then some long ones that have inspired me to be more outspoken of the health of our planet and the culture handed to me by my masters, elders, and intellectual peers. 

Wealth Inequality please understand the difference between corporations and small businesses. Most Americans work for a corporation not a small business 

This video talk addresses the cultural issues that people my age are questioning. We are tired of being told to buy things and sell things to people that destroy the relationships within our culture. And this is a good video that addresses the exploitation of the working class.

This is a great video of the latest research from Cornell University, though a year old. It details the amount of energy we are consuming, how much is in the ground, what types, and the problem with Social Plans that count on revenue from Economic Growth Strategies.

This video while difficult to listen to but it is spot on in being able to explain the United Nations International Panel On Climate Change. And this video is the Latest IPCC report summarizing the collective scientific body of evidence related to Climate Change.

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Google Buzz & Google Wave are not good products to compare

Scrolling through my Google Reader it would seem that while Google Buzz is creating a lot of buzz the majority of people seem to think that it is appropriate to compare the two products. I have to question then if those writers have actually even tried to imagine how one could possibly use Wave. It would just seem that they are recycling news and status update feeds and not doing a whole lot of research.

Please allow me to do some comparisons and feel free to let me know how if you think I am on the mark. Let's start with Buzz.

1. Google Buzz is a message update tool that integrates currently with Google Reader and Gmail.
2. You can embed multi-media and and include more than 140 characters of information.
3. you can also, via your Google Contacts, send or share privately messages to a particular group allowing one to better focus their message to a particular target audience or work group.
4. That is it

Now I will briefly highlight some very different functionalities of Google Wave.

1. Wave is a multi-media document with a URL. This can be a really long conversation (and unfortunately often is), but it can actually be any type of real-time collaborative document that can house most any type of media, widget, and includes executable JavaScript and HTML.
2. Contacts can be created much like web-services that interact and have functionality with the wave. This as of yet barely tapped potential is only limited to the creativity of the designer of the contact, or bot.
3. Google Wave is an area where designers can create Gadgets and provide services and tools within a wave that are different than the more general services added to a wave by a bot.
4. Another powerful feature and barely explored feature of Wave is the ability to export the wave or embed it into another website or web application.
5. Last feature that distinguishes Wave from Buzz is collaboration. While I can comment on someone's Buzz, comments are a far cry from being able to see someone type and edit at the same time that you are typing or editing the Wave.

I hope some of this has clarified the major differences between Wave and Buzz. They are quite different. Please feel free to share your thoughts

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Hopping on the Google Buzz Wagon

Ok, seriously don’t need another status update application. But, Buzz could be different. First off I want to tell you how I use my status update applications (I have a feeling many ppl do the same) Second I want to give a run down of how I think Buzz is different, and Thirdly I would like your honest feed back.

How I use status update applications like Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed et al… I am a Tweetdeck user. I have multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts for the different types of posts and work that I do. With Tweetdeck I can add all of these accounts and when I have posts that are related to my personal friends I use different accounts than when I post about Environmental topics or Indiana only posts. I don’t send out spam, and I monitor closely who I really follow. I have also migrated a lot of the Mail and Document work that I do professionally and for college to the Google Verse. Google Apps has made online collaboration very easy and productive and sexy in a simple way.

Now if I can’t connect Buzz to my Tweetdeck then guess what, not going to be used often. However, there are many projects that I work on with clients and partners and we use Google Apps for work collaboration and documentation (including wave). Now already having these people in groups, within my Google Contacts, makes sending out a private update a very attractive and useful use for Google Buzz, especially since I have a lot of coworkers who are not yet comfortable working in wave, Buzz becomes an easy way for me to send project statuses, updates, or questions and get some feedback without having the information public and without having to open up Tweetdeck.

Now that is all I really have to say at this time about Google Buzz and I would appreciate your feedback on how you would use Buzz (or not) and whether or not you would (or wouldn’t) like to see Buzz integrated with your other status application services or apps.

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