Collaboration City - smart ways to make hustle & bustle FUN -can world learn from New York

So what's the State of The Union now the www revolves all our tomorrows around Death of Distance, World is Flat? connections, collaborations...

Apparently it is facing a gathering storm whose first 2 space races to be free are:
end US addiction to petroleum addiction
do what you can so that kids love exploring science more thah spactating sports or popping idols

That's joy D as it goes. Only trouble is those are system revolution games and one sub-optimal crossroads may like the proverbial snake viciously spiral you in the opposite direction that your faith intended. And faith that excludes transparent mapping's 360 degree Q&A is now the riskest goverance to be led with. Mr Bush early in your first administration researchers at Georgetown Law School & Brookings Economics Institute did inform your executives of the compound risks of Unseen Wealth Governance but they were shown the door as if goodwill maps have no value in exploring entrepreneurial revolution let alone transparently guiding people to feel safe about changing the world peacefully

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Footnote:22 years ago, I started navigating death of distance stories - the 3rd part of an entrepreneurial revolution trilogy with my father who had spent a career inteviewing leaders from all over at The Economist.

It may be very unpopular in some quarters, but scots like my dad and I (probably over 80% of Scots, because that's how many live and network outside scotLAND) think the idea of living in one place is becoming maddening just as the mass media's lowest common definition of most new media tools' use is. Take WEB LOG. WE blog. How did early sea captains log their discoveries of different cities and trading places in a way that integrated a worldwide trading map? Does this not mean there's a double loop to valuing a city or any place: what its inhabitants have spent longest practising, empassiononing "TIMES" what a visitor sees most uniquely useful to collaboratively, sustainably trade with?

This has both theoretical and deep practical applications if you sail with it. In terms of economics, the people -all 6 billion beings of us (and our lifetime's most open projects http://project30000.blogspot.com ) must unite to ensure the maths transparenctly maps sustainability for at least 2 million global villages (whether place or action learning gravitated) not an economics of numbers ruling solely so that the big gets bigger. Where I put economics you can insert other fi-fo--professional words: accounting, financing, investment, governance, law, communications as media and mediation. They are all ruled by a giant mathematical mistake of ignoring compound exponentials - http://exponentials.blogspot.com (please don't ever do that ask Einstein, Gandhi, Von Neumann if you have read one of their works on the subject http://clubofdc.blogspot.com )

In terms of practice: if we want to be world citizens, why not start with collaboration (its the connecting value multiplier whereas competition is the separating one). I have spent quite a lot of te last 2 years searching through the nearly 50 million bookmarks on collaboration knowledge city; if you have generated one of these why not check our our emerging guided tour at http://clubofcity.blogspot.com and if your city or most open network for how to change the world isn't there yet, start it up as ablog and tells us how to co-promote it.

Emotionally most of all (as is our species trust http://trueflow.blogspot.com , http://simplysee.blogspot.com ), if you are an adult do not forget that if you dismiss death-of-distance Q&A (just because most conventional bloggers of even today's economist on new media does): ask what on earth will happen to the education of our children ?(and their compound futures http://globalcharters.blogspot.com , http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com ) should I be at least a few degrees correct in asking -nay begging - you to go beyond only top down nations as a way of democratically mapping world trade.

posted by Anonymous @ 5:34 AM 0 comments

The Charlie Rose interview broadcasts out of New York are perhaps the greatest gift to the worldwide that New York has made of recent times - though we love to hear your nominations because as a mapmaker I am sure there must be many worth exploring.Here's one recent episode that's buzing round clubofcity and clubofvillage and anywhere our open networks of entrepreneurial revolution can link through with our 30th birthday party celebrations in 2006

Lazard's head of strategy gave away that he was so interested in New York magazines, that if for some reason strategy merchanting ever takes a downturn, then he'll spend his life making buckets of money or communal goodwill out of Big Apple's most lucrative magazine* web opportunities. Now I am not sure I heard him identify what those were -maybe I (and a million friends of entrepreneurial revolutions) will have to visit google video and pay charlie 99 cents for a rerun. But anyway here's a possibly uplifting debate between me and you (indeed every netizen who loves transparently connecting until we discover the next big (and as Thomas Friedman and the 1.3 million reades of The World is Flat would say green enough) idea for 6 billion people to enjoy profitably working with) and perhaps him. Where's the flaw in this debate whatever culture inside New York you love most?

New York Magazines - indeed any big city's press - have been on my mind for 2 lifetimes- openly inquistive global leadership media being what my father as an economist http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com helped to co-create, and around one of whose 30th aniversaries of hosting http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com revolutionary network roundtables we celebrate in 2006. This intro is also how we are syndicating this conversation board's pre-eminence around 100 blogs.

The head of Lazards was on tv a few days ago saying that he had made one investment for the company he knew would compound extraordinary wealth (perhaps even an exit startegy if the rest of whatver strategy merchants do turns out to be seen as less and less valuable). Buying a New York Magazine , I think the New Yorker.

Now he was talking about a magazine when coupled to the internet can be a city's number 1 exchange rather fear for whatever the most extravagant new yorkers are prepared to pay at the click of their fingertips for when they need the recipe or other codes to action a fashion or a party around them. But think of a different city magazine. One that kept on asking what abundant economics exhchanges could we co-create with in twin-city diversity collaborations. These might include deep social value like project30000 or revolutionise global industry sectors until their exponentials uptilt to use Thomas Friedman's core economic principle of today's ever flatter world.

What could Delhi-New York innovate that's best for the world. What could Wellington-New York innovate that's best for the world. It seems to me
-and other disruptive agents of the internet

that contextual micro-communities and microfinance go hand in hand with a medium combo of city magazine and worldwide web. InterCitizens could be debating thousands of experimental concepts in the knowledge that those which made progress would be reported back all round the city through the glossy magazine and its chattering classes. Now Mr Murdoch, how about this beyond media? http://value100.blogspot.com I promise you that it is exactly how one (the first wholly global leadership) press media returned 100 times shareholder investments over a generation by compounding 1000 times value across societies.

Macrae, Chris-7th member of World Class Brands Net - wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

posted by Anonymous @ 5:45 AM 0 comments

Everyone I have met who loves New York seems to echo a view along the lines : it make hustle & bustle more fun than anywhere else knows how on a big stage

So I suggest this as the first question we ask New Yorkers to respond to as a collaboration city, and if you live somewhere else how cabn we qualify the question in deeper contexts (NB I am not saying that any of us peoples want fun or hustle and bustle all of the time, but a city's cultural capacity to make hustle and bustle as fun as it can be for many different people's and sustain such diversity over time is interesting. )

It also leads me to the question: how do New Yorkers look after those who have the least opportunity to enjoy its extravagances but who have as much right to be there and those who have the most opportunity to play. What other questions does it lead you to voice?

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