Gordon Freeman's Blog (9)

Somehow i can't get it out of my mind to encourage/evoke the official MUN circuit - ( Model United Nations ) which is a academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about civics, current events, effective communication, globalization and multilateral diplomacy - to start playing our NON simulation. Think about the interplay that might blossom in intertwining our future diplomats with the crowdsourcing potentials of our by the World Bank Institute developed gaming… Continue

Though our urgentevoke network is more than 19000 strong we are spread out thinly in our realworld.To gain further momentum it might be an idea to organize flashmobs in gameworlds like World of Warcraft or Covert Ops. It looks like a waste of energy to invest time in those gameworlds we are trying to turn around but since it is so fundamental in Jane McGonigal's project and the issue is in this game only indirectly adressed through the…

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started prepping for a live! serendipity trip reacting to FutureEverythings first GloNet, a prototype for a new kind of globally networked event, on Thur 13 May. FutureEverything is shifting from a single city event to one taking place simultaneously at venues around the globe.

http://www.futureeverything.org/festival2010/glonet2010



for starters kicked in a small Ning vid…



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WHO would you encourage to play Season 2 ?





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Somehow i can't get it out of my mind to encourage the official MUN circuit - ( Model United Nations ) which is a academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about civics, current events, effective communication, globalization and multilateral diplomacy - to start… Continue

the first time i noticed Ushahidi 's Advisory Boardmember Patrick Meier was because of his excellent relief efforts response to the Haiti EQ crisis , pointed out to me by Grimsel.

( see my http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/credit-where-credit-is-due ).

Since then been following him online and in the realworld (see my youtube above of his skyped Keynote speech at…

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'''when in Nijmegen - now a little more than a year ago - a few University students started to enact some of my Half Life videogame pivotal moments into a real world setting by means of a - with special effects radiating viral sciencefiction - goshort youtube film





mobile via : http://bit.ly/4ltry



i was so numbed in my superpowers that i decided that i would counteract those feelings by metamorphosing from my… Continue

would like to adress your attention to :



DT: http://bliin.com/#item=t.4258

mobile: http://m.bliin.com/?t=i&p=&item=t.4258



a trip that intertwined live! bliin , qik , twitter and pearltrees interfaces









mobile via: http://pear.ly/i2vv



which contained - though… Continue

Meet Erik Verlinde , dutch theoretical physicist ( String Theory ) at the University of Amsterdam.



He recently introduced a deep new way of looking at gravity , in which gravity is no longer seen as

a fundamental force but as a emergent phenomenon.



The way his reconceptualizations will lead to you inventing creative and sustainable ways to power

our everyday lives lay still deeply hidden in our future. And by means of spreading his

concepts i hope to… Continue

testing several transparency collaborative methodologies

within Ning 's Urgent Evoke Network:









lovely , its up and running… Continue