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Rahein
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25 Apr 2006 5:16 PM |
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I have only begun digging into this site, but have some
questions about the how ideas are evaluated.
1. Everything on this site seems to deal with the two-year time frame. This is
much too short of a time frame of real world changing ideas. People need to be
thinking about the 10, 50, 100, 500 year time lines. Short sighted thinking is one
of the things that got us into the problems we are in today. If the site is
referring to the action plan for the next 2 years of a longer time frame that
is much better thinking. Think long term act short term.
2. Group think is great at developing a few well thought out
ideas, but does not address fringe ideas. If the site follows the polls it will
miss that one lone person with the idea that could change everything. The majority
of people did not even know of electricity before it became an everyday occurrence.
Please don’t marginalize ideas that don’t get high polling.
3. Business interests seem to be the main target for the
ideas generated here. This is ok because it might be easier then changing the
government. But I think the major place that change is needed is in the
culture. We need to foster a culture that works with the environment not
against it. One that is scientifically focused not fascinated my celebs.
I hope to have any interesting discussions here. Thanks.
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Rahein
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25 Apr 2006 5:18 PM |
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Sorry for misspelling site <blush> and the bad formatting.
It was in a list and paragraphs, but I guess it did not like them.
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Blissfulpain
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25 Apr 2006 5:53 PM |
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Posted By Rahein on 4/25/2006 12:16:23 PM1. Everything on this site seems to deal with the two-year time frame. This is
much too short of a time frame of real world changing ideas. People need to be
thinking about the 10, 50, 100, 500 year time lines. Short sighted thinking is one
of the things that got us into the problems we are in today. If the site is
referring to the action plan for the next 2 years of a longer time frame that
is much better thinking. Think long term act short term.
I do agree to some extent. I would suggest ideas to focus on trends that will take place over 5 to 10 years. Bussiness plans generally act over a 5 year time fame, including R&D, prototyping, executing and break-even/return on investment. For any trends we predict we should be able to allow bussiness' and communities to create 2 year 'Action Plans' to prepare or take advantage of these insights.2. Group think is great at developing a few well thought out
ideas, but does not address fringe ideas. If the site follows the polls it will
miss that one lone person with the idea that could change everything. The majority
of people did not even know of electricity before it became an everyday occurrence.
Please don’t marginalize ideas that don’t get high polling.
I would actually suggest the creation of polls that 'never end' and allow people to change their vote at anytime. Opinions can be very reactionary and fluid. In the course of a discussion thread, you can change your mind several times and usually not even start to solidify your opinion until you have to write it down in response to someone else's.
3. Business interests seem to be the main target for the
ideas generated here. This is ok because it might be easier then changing the
government. But I think the major place that change is needed is in the
culture. We need to foster a culture that works with the environment not
against it.
Bussiness is great, but Rahein is absolutely right. There are three controlling groups in the world, Bussiness, Government and Culture. The Internet has made Culture a more prominent player in the last decade (as this site evidences), Governments I have little experience with and cannot accurately comment, and finally Bussinesses control a lot of money, which through advertising and sponsorships, control popular opinion more then most ppl like to think.
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Rahein
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27 Apr 2006 11:02 PM |
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Do to the spelling error in the title and just the poor title chose I
do not think people are looking at this thread. I think these are
important issues to deal with before this site leaves beta. I am going
to repost it with a decent title and proper formatting.
Can anyone think of a better title to my post? I can't think of the words.
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Rahein
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27 Apr 2006 11:05 PM |
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Still my formatting is wrong. I typed it directly in the text area, not
copy & pasted. There should be a new line after this line.
Also when I hit reply all the contents of the page load, but my broswer
still shows the loading icon for about 15 seconds. During that time I
can not type in the text area. Newline.
Is this you way to get people to think before they post? <g>
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Blissfulpain
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28 Apr 2006 2:38 AM |
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ok, after some testing and trial and error. the only effective way to seperate paragraphs is with the bullet function.like
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lauramcgoff
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28 Apr 2006 2:21 PM |
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Easing Blissful's pain...
I'm just peforming some testing here to see if some of the previously mentioned formatting issues are possibly platform specific.
I am typing directly into the editor, not a copy/paste, and to begin this new paragraph I needed to press the ENTER key twice.
Again, I have pressed the ENTER key twice...
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lauramcgoff
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28 Apr 2006 2:34 PM |
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Blissfulpain and Rahein,
Would you mind reporting what platform and browser you are using? I'm on a PC, using IE6 and I seem to be able to create line spaces without a problem.
However, I don't have good luck using the bullet function that is provided at the top of the editor. When clicked, it indents and creates bullets throughout my entire post, regardless of how many line spaces I enter.
thanks in advance for your help,
laura
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Rahein
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28 Apr 2006 2:39 PM |
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Happened on two diffrent computers both are:
XP Pro SP2 with FF 1.0.4
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Blissfulpain
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28 Apr 2006 5:28 PM |
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windows XP
firefox 1.5
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lauramcgoff
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01 May 2006 3:46 PM |
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Blissfulpain and Rahein,
An update was pushed out on Friday to address the line space problem. Hope it proves helpful!
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