Howdy.

I reside in Silicon Valley with my wife and two children. I was employed for a few years as a marketing director for a web based business selling custom built computers. I just quit another job as an onsite Dell warranty service provider. I was too good and they gave me too much work, too much stress. I can fix computers. Got trained in IBMs also and repaired one Think Pad not too long ago, replacing the main board. I am meeting with a venture capitalist tomorrow with hopes of securing some funding for a P2P software project of mine and that is what I hope will become my next employment.

I used to participate at Imminst but got kicked out twice mainly due to not being able to cope with the ego of one infamous director there.

I like what I see here so far. The philosophical and science leanings appear similar to my own. I have an idea of how to bring both funds and greater traffic/participation to a forum and site such as this. It looks like it would be fun and directly helping to increase awareness. The idea is basically of a news portal with sales of books, films, and fair trade items (products that come from companies that treat their laborers well) at a premium. It could bring much funds to the cause as well as providing good employment for a couple of people. It is not a new idea, tried and tested and proven at other sites. It would be fairly easy to set up and maintain, providing brief summaries of news stories in the subject area of increasing human health/intelligence and consciousness with links to the original stories. I see the possibility for about a dozen or so new stories every day. It would be a real service to cull the happenings of humanity that may help bring the consciousness singularity into fruition.

At the least, I hope I can prove of benefit and look forward to learning from and contributing to this site.

Chip

Yay, another mind expander!
Hopefully you'll hand out alot of keys to open many doors!

What kind of P2P project? like eMule?

welcome Chip.



I would be open to this idea so long as the products, such as books, are relevant and so long as it didn't effect the forum. Do you have sites to provide examples? As a note, BrainMeta is not intended as a money-maker (nor is it in need of money), but is mainly intended as a place for information exchange, in accordance with the site objectives.

Cerebral, the idea I have is for a P2P collaboration project that could handle lots of people due to inherit scaling of the process, involving only a small group of people at each step as well as incorporating scaled anonymity. I have a new mathematical concept of sociology that serves as the back-bone for the idea. The hope is that we can break out of sharing only digital media and actually coordinate sharing analogic information, skills and things. It would be geophysically as well as demographically coordinated. I think maybe if I understand these apps correctly, it would be more like Kazaa than emule but really a horse of a different color than either of those.

Shawn, I would very much want a news portal geared towards facilitating intelligence and awareness to be quite separate from a forum. If there is any link to a forum at all it would be subtle and not prominent on the portal. I notice that lots of news items get incorporated into forums but willy-nilly whereby it is difficult to get an overview of what is going on in the realm of human intelligence/health and consciousness improvement. Appears to me it could be very popular and a real traffic generator and allow for people to get a grasp on what is happening, the latest software and gadgets for improving ones life, advances and understanding in nootropics and technology to facilitate human awareness and intelligence/consciousness. I find current forum software presents lots of difficulty when the traffic gets large. There also seems a weakness to such software whereby gaining power in a forum can be an elevated goal, more important than the forum's reason for existence.

I had my meeting with a powerful guy this morning and need to work on getting my work history and experiences up to date to email him as he may have an interesting job for me as a product development team manager. The news portal idea is what I'd like to approach as an alternative to working for a company, per se, but the money might be too good for me to turn down this other potential work opportunity. I do see that the news portal could generate some hefty bucks so if it comes to pass, to look more promising than other options, then by all means. The news portal idea should also prove to be quite fun and personally rewarding in ways other than $.

Chip

Oh, number one site that I believe shows a great deal of success and simplicity/ease of management as a news portal is http://www.buzzflash.com but, of course, the subjects would be different, quite in keeping with the interests I see here in this forum, but the methodology might be quite similar.

thanks Chip. I will think more about your news portal idea. At the simplest level, I imagine a separate board could be created for news-worthy posts, which could be fed directly onto the main page, and would also have xml, rss, and rdf feeds. If you have further ideas, please let me know.

Trip, Hey Hey and Rick are the primary people who are responsible for providing news to BrainMeta, it works like anything else. Basically if its news about neuroscience.. it goes in the neuroscience section and people see it in active topics. I dont know if this news thing would serve any purpose because we already have all our news posted by members regularly anyways.

I see, Maximus. It looks like some other employment that is perhaps more in my specific interests is happening for me so I'm going to drop the idea for now but, still, I will peruse the various news sources I have collected and continue to look for more. I'm an info junky