In my earlier post today, I have to apologize for not pointing out the significant contribution and influence REALNeo co-founder Norm Roulet had in me coming to NEO.

Yah sure - Norm and I don't see things eye to eye, but that's fine with me.

Lev Gonick at CWRU has been working for YEARS to bring fiber optic connectivity to the surrounding neighborhoods around University Circle.  Well his journey is finally paying off!

George Nemeth and myself have been invited to debate the silly notion that copyright laws should be changed to "protect" old media. Lordy lordy lordy.

Dec. 1st, noon.

Here's a few of the issues I'll bring up during the debate:

Great stuff!  Bountiful harvest! Meats, fruits, vegetables, bread, Cuban food, Amish farmers!

I was asked by several people to attend the recent Sustainability Conf in Cleveland, but alas I was not able to do that.

As I've been wading through the various cynical blog posts and coverage of the event - I was struck by a few things:

Here's the Google Tech Talk I did last week.

Here's a great article in the San Jose Merc about me.

And my plans.

And NEO

I'm pleased to be able to offer a free pdf of my textbook I'll be using for the course I'll teach at CWRU this fall - EECS 396.

I also have a pdf of the manifesto I wrote - as well.

Enjoy!

pdf of manifesto! = http://www.box.net/shared/u65izvyipq

pdf of textbook! = http://www.box.net/shared/y40efkliqk

We went out to Oberlin yesterday to meet Brad Masi and talk about how we can work together.  I also got to meet some old Obie friends (I'm from the class of '80.)

Hey Folks

I'll be attending two local events together.

I'd love to meet you.

- marc

Hey folks

Norm has convinced me that I need to be in town - so I'll be there next week.

We've also setup a test/demo social network - if you want to come on over and join - to show off what we can do.  Easily.

I'm excited as hell.

I've also attached in image I'm using to explain what I call the 'virtuous circle' we're setting up.

Truth be told - I lived with a household of poets at Oberlin.

I'd get home at the end of along day in the electronic music studio and practicing to be "Papageno" to:

- hold on, hold on, listen to this: "Graph to me the breast you cut off to fire better with........"

or

- "inside the valley that lies between a shrug"

or

As some of you may have heard, there was some serious industrial espionage yesterday in the Bay Area.  Vandals broke into two infrastructure conduit manhole covers and hacked through the Urban Ring for the Bay Area - cutt

This is a shoutout to everyone to welcome them to this year's Passover and to

share our Haggadah with them.

Check it out -  It's fun.

As I morph from a carpetbagger into a homeboy, plant some roots and make Cleveland my home - dude - I've been trolling the Open Web looking for coolio places to join.

One of them is the social network on Ning called "Social Media Club - Cleveland".

I met George Nemeth there and learned about CoolCleveland.com.

I just wrote up a post over at my blog - on 'targeted ads' and why Google has to fear Facebook.

This is the ultimate enchilada - the game changing aspect of capitalism that has to change. The relationship between the vendors who wish to sell us goods and services - and us folk - who buy all that crap!

Here's the post in it's entireity:

I participated in a panel last week in vegas on open standards for aggregation streams.  We had on one panel an unprecedented set of companies all discussing working together for the  benefit of the end-users, not themselves.  Google, Microsoft, Facebook, MySpace and Plaxo (COMCAST) were all on the panel.  And me.

What are aggregations streams?

What are open standards?

How come there isn’t more coverage of the interview Fareed Zakaria did with Elliot Spitzer on Friday?

Wouldn't it be great if a community could use videophone technology - like what you can get for free from Skype - to help each other?

If someone had a question - all they'd have to do is videophone up somebody and ask an answer.

The idea is that experts can support newbies in almost any area - and vice versa.

So if you were working on a home repair job or winterizing and you needed an experts advice, you could find him/her.

And if they needed help in creating a web site or balancing your companies books - they could help you.

I wrote this post on my blog - on a series of strategies that are all connected together.

If you're into it - go check it out. Its pretty nerdy stuff for this REALNEO crowd and it includes lots of insider issues, politics and dogma.

But hey!  You may enjoy it.

My friend Robert Scoble announced a new kind of blog channel this weekend st SXSW - a geek and music conference in Austin, TX.  It's called Bldg 43.

Howdy.

My name is Marc Canter.  I was the guy who first introduced Norm Roulet to Drupal like 5 years ago. (or was it four? - it's hard to keep track.)

Anyway I've recently been working with Norm on a new proposal called the 'Citizen Dashboard'.  Its been fashioned for Cuyahoga County - but could (obviously) be used anywhere. I've posted it on my blog and facebook today and I'll be flogging this horse as I collect input from you folks.  That's my next step.

So please - HAVE AT IT!