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Integral Ideator (I-I)

So, you want to know a little about me, eh? Well, I’m a freelance translator and copyeditor by trade (see my web site at drane.it) and am also an Integral Practitioner, studying and practicing Integral Theory as is being developed by Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute (among others).

My interests also include conscious business, as well as conscious community and communication, areas of my career that are currently under development. An offshoot of that, though, is that I’m also very much interested in social networking and all that goes with it.

My other main passions are speculative fiction and pondering the future generally, which naturally also includes a keen interest in technology and technological developments.

I think that about sums it up for now, but please do also check out my profiles on Gaia and Integral Life for a bit more information (and for some of the same information) about me.

Enjoy!

~Grey

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Trying Twittelator & liking it lots. It's packed w/ features, incl. Posterous support, which I'm testing now.

And the interface is surprisingly intuitive and accessible despite the wealth of features.

It does, however, lack push notifications, but there are apps out there that fill this void. I'm currently trying out iTweetReply, which seems to be working just fine. Unlike competing products Notifications and Tweet Push, you don't have to "pay as you go" in order to keep getting notifications. With iTweetReply, you pay a small price for the app up front, then the only in-app purchase requirements are if you need more than two searches that you want push notifications for.

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Posted 3 days ago

1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3... I knew I should have learned to do the waltz.

1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3... I knew I should have learned to do the waltz.
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Posted 1 month ago

At my gf's New Year's Day concert.

At my gf's New Year's Day concert.
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Posted 1 month ago

Been thinking about self-awareness, personal development & career choices

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us [...] have jobs that are too small for our spirit.

~Nora Watson (editor, in 'Working', by Studs Terkel)

A few days ago, I noticed a bit of talk in my statstream about how people rarely make a career out of pursuing their passion. At the same time, I've also been doing some thinking and reading about self-awareness (and am about to start reading a book about finding your calling). Today, then, I thought about how we are typically unprepared as teens to choose the path of higher education and, consequently, a career that's right for us.

So now I'm wondering what could be done to help young people (and my daughter specifically) choose a career path that's related to our passions right from the start, rather than finding ourselves several years on stuck in a job that we hate or that otherwise fails to satisfy us. One thing that occurs to me is how important the role of the school counsellor is, and how it would seem to me that this importance is not fully appreciated or taken advantage of by our school systems.

Of course, it's also true that parents should be the first to help their children to be aware of their passions and to pursue them. So what could be done to prepare us for being better parents?

And what role could meditation (or other contemplative practices, such as centering prayer) play during adolescence? Should forms of "secular" contemplative practice (if that's not an oxymoron) even be promoted in schools?

Anyway, just some initial musings....

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Posted 2 months ago

Trying out the Deepak Chopra Stress Free app

Given the way this app is designed (you have to complete one step, or "key", to unlock the next), as well as the fact that I just started using it today, it's hard to give any kind of detailed review, but it does look like an interesting concept so far.

I had thought it was a little pricey, as far as iPhone apps go anyway, but when you consider it's designed to essentially be a 6-week therapy program (with flexibility for ongoing practice), €8 isn't too bad.

My other concern, which remains to a certain extent, is the sixth "key", since it's all about practicing the Law of Attraction, of which I'm not particularly a fan. I did a brief bit of research into Chopra's approach to LoA, though, and it didn't seem quite as... "troublesome" as most. So I'll be keeping an open mind when I get to that key.

I'll leave it at that for now and may come back later with a more detailed analysis of the app.

Here's to staying "stess free"!

~G

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Posted 2 months ago

Where are we in the history of social networking?

Where are we in the history of social networking? "Near the end" says one of the first Facebook investors http://bit.ly/4u1lKB (via @newscientist)

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Hmmm... I posted this here by accident. The tweet was one character too long....

Anyway, this is an interesting article. Have a look.

Cheers,
~G

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Posted 2 months ago

At my gf's symphonic band concert in a small town near Como. http://is.gd/3UJaS -- No sign of George Clooney. ;)

At my gf's symphonic band concert in a small town near Como. http://is.gd/3UJaS -- No sign of George Clooney. ;)
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Posted 4 months ago

ProCamera FINALLY updates for iPhone OS 3.x compatibility

Wish list: filters and in-app sharing

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Posted 4 months ago

Navigon iPhone app gets more new features | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews

Since MobileNavigator debuted in late July, the App Store has grown crowded with competitors, including CoPilot Live, iGo My Way, and TomTom.

But not one of them offers the coveted text-to-speech feature (yet), which announces actual street names instead of just saying "turn right ahead."

MobileNavigator 1.2.0 adds that highly desirable capability--along with a few others. A new integrated iPod control provides one-tap access to your media library. A new location-sharing feature lets you e-mail your location, an address, or a point of interest.

via reviews.cnet.com

I'm downloading the update now (a 1.8GB monster!), but location sharing by e-mail sounds like it could work nicely with Posterous! Especially if it links to a map image of some sort. Not sure it will, though. Seems like it might be designed for sharing with other MobileNavigator users.

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Posted 4 months ago

How Twitter (and the statstream) Can Bring Us Together

[Note: Since I've switched my blog over from self-hosted WordPress to Posterous, I thought I'd repost references to an old blog post or two for... posterity (or "Posterosity" as it were).]



"Twitter may just be a collection of inane thoughts, but in aggregate that is a valuable thing. In aggregate, what you get is a direct view into consumer sentiment, political sentiment, any kind of sentiment."

(via Mining The Thought Stream)

“Sentiment”. Yes, that’s a very important point. Because “tweets” are very short, immediate messages, they are very different in nature from blogs, discussion forums, or any other longer means of communication, which take longer to write and so are generally more thought out, less spontaneous. More mental, less from the gut....

Read more on my blog at Gaia.com...

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Posted 4 months ago