Robert Steele…Amazon(.com) as the hub of the world brain. Interesting idea.
Holey smokes oss.net/gnome are the slides … Robert flew through his slides, like a preview … and now he’s gone back to talk. $1.2 billion a day to prepare Pres. Bush’s daily brief … (for a guy who can’t read 
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Robert is a very dynamic, and I’d say controversial, speaker. I have to say, for those not here…heck even those who are, checking the slides out on your own … good idea. Why? There is just too much to type, too much to grok at once.
Robert’s key repeating phrase, is … please blog this, go blog this … the idea is we, as bloggers, as have the power to open the information flow to challenge the wrongs and promote the rights (that is the good things).
“Gave up on Wikipedia, because I don’t have time for morons…”
Toolzl … Have to look this up.
First fifty years focused on the the “T” in IT … now we need to focus on the “I” part … so, so true.
While Robert Steele might be an alarmist, might be wrong, certainly controversial… he is raising the issues that need to be talked about. We need to be more open. We need to keep politicians honest. The cynic would say that it’s always been like this, but has it? It is just how history has been written?
Chris Brogan’s quote I just caught on Twitter …. “Mixed thoughts on the keynote speaker @Gnomedex. He’s like ripping duct tape off your chest hair.”
Ouch … so, so true.
There is so much here. Again, this is a broken record. My real learning here is to write. To promote, to share. Something we all need think about.
Questions from the audience are beginning to challenge the action items RS has set forth. Salim Ismail raising the point that there are big, systemic issues being discussed … so what smaller, bite-sized actions we can do. Real things. Answer: Start at the neighborhood level and worth. The think globally, act locally mantra.
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