Archimedes said, "give me long enough of a lever, and a place to stand and I'll single-handedly lift the earth".There are numerous levers out there. But they are only available to about 5% of the minds on Earth, because the rest are not imaginative.See "lever: what 2 lines are responsible for US$350 of the US$400 million of Hotmail's value"Here I'd like to expand on lever metrics.Will start off with some questions and sculpt the thoughts as we go along.Some rules-of--thumb1. The higher up the food chain the lever is, the higher its value

Have you seen any good sites/sources on blogosphere metrics? I want to understand them. 1. Imagine a human network cluster diagram -- eg see bottom of http://myadda.com2. Imagine that those who blog profusely have their nodes to be proportionately brighter.3. Imagine that those who seem to be opinion leaders (i.e. they seem to be the source of many emerging memes in their swarming space) have their dot to be proportionately larger.So how can we using http://www.technorati.com , http://www.blogpulse.com , http://www.furl.net and http://del.icio.us get the best sense of who is the "boss" for what and how it spreads.

Check out the rather creative bunch at https://www.openbc.com/net/between/We're organising bridges for acumen flow from Europe to Southeast Asia there.Objective: Accelerate our roadmap towards making Malaysia.Net etc into *the* Knowledge Economy brands/mind colonies. See roadmap at http://www.ryze.com/go/balaParticular focus areas: aspects of mind colonies like citizen-ownership structures, partnerships to accelerate blended-media, capital raising and complementary currency.

The Worldwide Help Desk for Complementary Currency Systems, an initiative of the Strohalm Foundation, is located at:http://www.complementarycurrency.org/helpdesk.html .  We invite you to visit this website to see the services that we offer to individuals and groups who are working to implement, or better manage their complementary currency system.In addition to a Frequently Asked Questions file, and a number of practical

Forwarded from:-http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/Creativity TechniquesBelow are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY. It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity technique) for each job. We will try and provide a little guidance along with each tool to let you know whether it's best used for cutting paper or putting in nails.