many to many cities.

http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html

this lecture primarily demonstrates as the shift in public media from a one-to-one (telephone) and one-to-many (newspapers, televisions, radio... ) to a many-to-many medium. and demonstrates this through the recent chinese earthquake, and the way news propogated. he says "in order for any media to become widespread, the technology needs to get boring" people using twitter, facebook, chatrooms etc have become so much the norm that we can easily put up our views on a public forum.

if we replaced media with planning. the principles are the same. ancestrally, planning has been a 'one-to-many' operation. it has come from the 'planner' to the 'people' never have we really had a dialogue. surveys and interventions are the tools we use today for feedback, but what if we had a system in place that would give us a 'feed-front' (for lack of a better term) what if we could use the open platform to get users (in this case residents of the area) to plan their own locality. essentially assuming that planning is organization of a finite number of resources within a finite area. which means it is a matter of distribution and not creation. the intangibles like the socio-cultural flavors, are better catered to by the 'non-experts' as they live and breathe the area.

in visual terms it would be like mapping a wiki over a finite area, non experts come in and edit pages, collectively they can then map the desires, fears, aspirations of the region under consideration.

thereby instead of an outsider coming/observing the region for a definite length of time and then planning for it, we could now get residents, who have been soaked
in the social fabric, to plan their own regions.

there by making the planner a medium of interpreting this directory of social desires such received, instead of the modernist version of 'god'.

congratulations karthik:) for the second time this week! :))

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towel day celebrations!

on account of towel day :

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists seem to forget that.

if jesus got a second chance

(background story: was a gloomy afternoon in dessau. something had to be done. then came the status message, if jesus was an architect, would jerusalem be a new town, and then began the flurry of possibilities, and lo and behold... this was written...) apologies to peoples religious sentiments but this was an opportunity i couldn't pass.

if jesus got a second chance, what would he have done?
would he still be the saviour of men, or would he just watch the fun?

if jesus was an architect would jerusalem be a new town?
would it be a functional city or would it be new babylon?
would it have a church at the center, or a huge open land?
would the city have guards at its gates, or kids at lemonade stands?

if he was a web designer would the bible be in flash?
would the bible be searchable, and cross indexed
or would it be a pdf, with bold images and sans-serif text.
would he use web safe fonts, or would they just be friendly?

if jesus was a photographer, what would he do then?
how would he respond to the call of children and of men?
would he hold an exhibition of sad, hungry faces and say dont?
or would he photograph a smiling kid and show?

if the son of god was a movie maker, would he be any good?
would he make schindlers lists and pray they all understood.
or would he make mindless comedies, so all could laugh and play
forget their worries, make someone smile, even if just for a day.

if jesus was an investment banker, would we be in a crisis?
would we still have credit cards and absurd war taxes?
would we have to have a savings plan, or would that become obsolete?
would we still be working for money, and warming a worthless seat?

if jesus was to be born again, would anyone really care?
would anyone listen to him, or would they throw a disapproving stare?
would he have to be an expert to say the things he had to say?
or could he just start a blog and there would be bloggers who would stay?

but if jesus really had a choice, would he be born again?
would he want to step in this world of lies and deceit, or would he step off the plane?
would he much rather not get in this dimension altogether,
and just send us friendly spam through emails?

verse inverse!

maybe definite

if all almosts became certain
what happens to all the mystery
what would become of the possibilities
would they tell us where to go
would they show us the only road

what would happen to the limits theory
what if things that tend to zero, become
what if infinity becomes a number
would it make our lives easier

would we still survive
would we still be able to live at peace
would god still exist
would there still be temptations to resist

what if you would know
if there was a reason or a purpose to grow
what if magic just became a scam
and doubtful letters become spam

what if uncertainty became clear
would we still need an expert
would we ever really wonder
would we really need these words?

the list

things about me a list i made for some other time but had so much fun that i went on and on about it so here is a list of things that people who know me know and the ones who dont will.

1) i was born. not found.

2) i dream. a lot. a looot.

3) i wish to die soon, but with no intentions of killing myself.

4) i love things more than people.

5) i have a secret wish to suffer from a really rare disease.

6) i can go without food for 5 days. but haven't gone without a computer since 1996.

7) i need people around me. and i hate that.

8) i know my sister is a better person than me.

9) i love escalators. when i build my own house, thats the first thing that i put in it.

10) i need the movies. i cant live without them.

11) i am a comic book fan.

12) i am like superman. i need the sun. i am like batman. i live in the dark. i am like both. i try to hide my true nature. i am like neither; my underpants are on the inside. generally.

13) i suffer from a perpetual identity flux.

14) i think an exclamation mark is the most amazing symbol ever invented. i wish i had had something to do with it.

15) i am a closet realist narcissist. i know the world revolves around me. i just dont boast about it.

16) sweet is my favorite taste. i can have deserts for all three meals. a wise man once said. life is uncertain.. eat desert first. i live by that rule.

17) i have the answer to all problems in the world. i just dont have all the questions.

18) my left foot is a size and more bigger than my right foot.

18)i hate shoes. i love buying them.

20) i have to pack my things thrice over when i go travelling. i am a packing perfectionist. i can fit the world in a suitcase given the right time and conditions.

21) i always over prepare for trips, but forget one important thing, always.

22) i am bad with money. and everything else that needs to be saved.

23) i see awkward questions and have an urge to ask them. how ever inappropriate, i just have to.

24) i hate people that love the news. if you think it makes you smart to know, sucks to be you!

25) i am the most uninformed person i know. but i am a trivia buff.

26) i am orderophoebic. i am afraid of ordering food at restaurants. i get nervous while deciding what to order because i think that that will be the one dish in the whole menu that the chef will screw up and i would never step into that place again. i always ask someone else to order for me. that way, if its bad, its their fault.

27) i have to have the largest tub of soft drink at the movies. how ever large. (1.5L was the largest at last count. thank you sonycenter berlin.)

28) i swear. a lot.

29) i am a chocolate addict.

30) i am a coke addict. but regular coke. i am leading a campaign against diet coke. i think principally nothing that is sweet has a right to be sugar free. plastic sweetners are just rude!

31) i have a speech ready for both the oscars and the nobel prize. i have been working on these for the last 25 years.

32) i like children. just dont like what they grow into.

33) i am at peace in filth. cleanliness is next to sickness.

34) i believe in lucky underwear.

35) i am chromophoebic. i am afraid of wearing colors.

36) i am a reluctant freeloader. i want everything for free. but i feel guilty for it afterwards.

37) i am the laziest person alive.

38) i love postit notes. all sizes and shapes.

39) deadpool is my favorite superhero.

40) i love making these lists.

41) pheew! i am done
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