Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing

The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

Got Wis.dm? New Online Community Has All the Answers

Link for this Post: Visit Wis.dm through this link! Wis.dm is the latest online community -- an interesting mashup of Yahoo! Answers, MySpace and Digg. Community members become resident experts to answer the steady onslaught of questions from new members/seekers....

Build A Hacked Macintosh Running Leopard from Off-The-Shelf Parts for Under $800

Link this Post: Hack Attack: Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800. File this in the 'it finally had to happen" category but someone managed to build a "Macintosh" or ""Hackintosh"" as Adam Pash is a senior editor for Lifehacker...

Are Psychedelics Google’s Biggest Trade Secret?

Link for this Post: Reality Sandwich Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. I'm not sure if this article is irrefutable proof of the idea that psychedelics are Google’s biggest trade secret but the author RoseRose has a gift for blarney...

Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition -- Business Week

Link for this Post: Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace by Olga Kharif When Google first...

Getting Dug and Stumbled Upon

Links for this Post Stumbled Upon Why We Get High Why We Get High by Bruce Eisner on Bruce Eisner's Writings blog We We Get High on Digg Most of you know Digg and Stumbled Upon -- two social network...

URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network

Link for this post: URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network. I discovered Urth.TV last week and joined immediately. I used to speak at the Whole Life Expo in the 1980s, both myself and with Timothy Leary. I'm already a member of...

Top 10 Video Search Engines

Link: Top 10 Video Search Engines on Read/WriteWeb A lot of people think that Google is the only way to search for video because it is so good at searching for websites. What people do not know is that Google...

Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google -- Venture Beat and ZDNet

Updated Links for this Post: Powerset: The natural language search mashup platform by Dan Farber -- ZDNet Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google By Matt Marshall on VentureBeat Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the Venture Beat...

Is The Internet is a Denial of Service Attack on Your Brain?

Links for this Post: "The Internet is a Denial of Service Attack on Your Brain": Stupid Human Programming Blog Internet Addiction Test Hello, my name is Bruce and I'm an Internet addict. I read the story about the Internet being...

Prometeus - The Media Revolution on YouTube

Link for this post: YouTube Inbed: Prometheus - The Media Revolution This video is a bit like Epic 215 about Googlezon but takes things a bit further and introduces "the prosumer." That's you hopefully.

WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown on Publishing 2.0

Link:for this Post: WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown. I use Typepad so the launch of an open source version of Movable Type, the software that powers us Typepad blogs is exciting. Scott Karp says that with...

Updated with News Video: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital' Conference

Link for this Post: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital Conference. I first saw Steve Jobs speak at a conference in Santa Cruz back in the early 1980s,...

The 9rules Web Community Where Quality Loves Company

Links for this Post: 9rules - Quality Loves Company.. To Some, Growing Means Dying Wisedump Blog by 9Rules CEO "So what is the 9 Rules" you ask? Well for starters the description on the website's metatags reads: 9rules is the...

Giganews Premium Usenet Launches Giganews Accelerator Beta -- FREE Windows Software Download!

Links for this Post: Giganews Premium Usenet Newsgroup Service 3 Day FREE Trial Giganews Accelerator Beta Free Windows Software Download The Usenet is one of the last and vast largely untamed frontiers of the Internet. Google was one of the...

Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority

Links for this Post: Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority: by Greg Sterling, .Search Engine Land America: The Growing Digital Divide by Duncan Riley- TechCrunch A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users (the original report) by John...

Who's Really Participating in Web 2.0 TIME

Link for this Post: Who's Really Participating in Web 2.0 By Bill Tancer in TIME. TIME Magazine made "YOU" -- i.e. the content creators who put write blogs, post pictures and videos on the web -- Person of the Year...

Pirates of the Multiplex -- Vanity Fair

Link for this Post: Pirates of the Multiplex -- by Steve Daly -- Vanity Fair This long (6 pages) and newsy piece in Vanity Fair begins with this, Under U.S. pressure, Swedish authorities are going after the popular Pirate Bay...

Looking Through My Squidoo Lenses

Updated: The Bruce Eisner Vision Thing Group on Squidoo Links for this Psst: My Lenses on Squidoo Psychedelic Mind-Changers Everything About Ecstasy Squidoo (on Wikipedia) is a social website whose focus (no pun intended) is making lenses. Its taken some...

Wetware Hacking -- Brain-Wave Machine

Wetware Hacking Wetware Hacking is on a website called Hack Canada. Here is what Hack Canada has to say about Wetware hacking: "The modern man of wisdom melds the old with the new, the alchemical with the electronic ... blending...

Spinning a New Island Web

Link for this Post: The New Island Web: A Work in Progress As regular readers know, I'm a writer by trade rather than a web design or coder. However since I have had several sites that have been on the...

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us -- YouTube Video

Links for this post: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us YouTube Video below InfoWorld: "Tech tops the pop charts" by By David L. Margulius I first heard about this video in the InfoWorld article "Tech tops the pop...

Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium

Link for this Post: Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium According to the folks at the newest social software network on the block Helium, they can best be described as "About, Yahoo Answers. Wikipedia all rolled...

What Ever Happened to Viritual Reality: RU Sirius in 10 Zen Monkies

What Ever Happened to Viritual Reality: RU Sirius in 10 Zen Monkies The Eighties and Nineties were a tech trip the same way that the Sixties and some of the Seventies were a head trip. Both fueled by counterculture grandmaster...

Sony Builds a First Class Virtual World with PlayStation Home - Engadget

Link: PlayStation Home revealed - Engadget.Accoring to this article in today's Engadet: . . . the "service" seems to be a new-gen Second Life killer, with public hangouts, personal apartments (to show off those fancy prizes you've been racking up...

Grab a Vision Thing Widget

If you have been wanting a Bruce Eisner Widget of your very own, I made one for you tonight. This by way of my hosts Typepad and the WidgetBox. Thanks to both! What the the widgets good for? You can...

Changing the World Starts with You at Change.org

Link for this Post: Change.org.Activist Social Network Software I discovered change.org a couple of days ago and have spent some time there. I am a long time activist in the psychedelic community. 17 years ago, I started Island Group. In...

Google & Cisco Planning Digital Billboards & Subliminal Advertising

Links for this Post: LiveScience.com - "The Next Really Big Thing: Digital Billboards" By Bill Christensen. technovelgy.com: Subliminal Billboards technovelgy.com: Digital Billboards Worth Billions According to these stories, the old fashioned American billboards we are used to may be replaced...

Wired Gadget Lab: Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011

Link for this Post: Wired Gadget Lab: Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011. By Mind Machine Interface, the article is not talking about "mind machines" that evoke changed consciousness. It should actually read mind-machine interface in which you control machines...

The Personality Forge: Welcome to the Future Filled With AI Chat Bots

Link for this Post: The Personality Forge AI- Artificial Intelligence Chat Bots. The sign at the door to Personality Forge says "Welcome to the Future." According to this site, its a future filled with Artifical Intelligence (AI) Chatbots. Here is...

Mindball is Pong on Steroids!

Links for this Post: Slate Magazine: "Bowling With Brain Waves Mindball, the new game where you move a ball with your mind" By Daniel Engber MindBall Tournament Video on YouTube The Mindball Challenge on The New Scientist Blog Regis &...

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

Link for this Post: The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun. Here is an irrisistably fun site! The presenation is in Flash and the principles are unexpectedly fresh. Here is a bit about the site from the publishers: Everyone needs a...

2006 Web Technology Trends

Link for the Post:: 2006 Web Technology Trends.on Read/Write Web I must admit I did not keep up on web 2.0 and other tech trends as passionately this year as I did in 2005. Web 2.0 fatigue or technology burnout...

Swami The Search Engine That Keeps on Giving

Links for this post: Swami - The what's new engine. TechCrunch: Web Swami Provides Online Guidance This post comes by way of TechCrunch who says this about A swami is a Hindu religious teacher. Swami is a customizable search engine...

Pandora by the Music Genome Project Creates Custom "Radio Stations" Based on Choice of Artist

Link for this Post: Pandora by the Music Genome Project Creates Custom "Radio Stations" Based on Choice of Artist According to the creators of this cool web app: Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:...

Is Life All Just a Dream? - Times Online -- Updated with Videos

Updated with New Information and Videos: One of our readers emailed me to tell me that the article I had cited was from November 2004 and that the BBC videos are online at the following links: Three Videos in the...

Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed

Link for this Post: Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed Here is a site with potential. Its just starting out so a but spartan but promising. Here is some excerpts from how it works:

Coming Soon via Your TiVo: Downloadable Internet Video on Television - New York Times

Link for this post: Coming Soon via Your TiVo: Internet Video on Television - New York Times. Looks like Tivo is getting into the downloaable movie business along with everyone else ( including MSN Live). Here is an excerpt from...

Search for torrents with G_________ Torrents

I'm sharing in LifeHacker's commercially acceptable hacker naughtiness with this link to a torrent search engine which used the above logo. After a day on Lifehacker, they had removed the logo however. As Lifehacker points out, the name for G______Torrents...

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog -- Stanford U Nov 9th

Links for This Post: "From Counterculture to Subculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog" -- Stanford University Nov 9th I'm going to link the shrunken image of the event poster at the top of my blog post to the...

Full List of Online Web Video Hosting Sites -- The Tech Zonre

Link for this post : Full List of Online Web Video Hosting Sites -- The Tech Zonr Here is how Rayman introduces this comprehensive listing of video hosting sites. . With the proliferation of web video sites I thought it...

SharePod: Install Freeware on Your Ipod from PC Copy Music To & From Your Ipod Share With All

Link for this Post: Free Windows Software SharePod. You liked by recent post Peter Gabriel's Free iTunes Filter Windows Software Creates "Intelligent Playlists whcih makes me think that there may be a lot of Vision Thing readers with IPods. So...

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Link for this Post: The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence This link (which came by way of the PatternHunter blog: is to a new (at least to me) research center with a fascinating focus: Here is a bit from the...