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I'm "XRanked" on Live.Com Search -- Link broken

Broken Link: X-Rank is based on a search algorithm of change in the volume of searches for various persons, ideas, places and things of interest to the public. I'm listed among 567 most-searched for bloggers on Live Search (and we...

What Type Is My Blog? Find Out With Typealyzer!

Links for this Post: Typealyzer Blog Personality Analysis 'What Am I Like?' personality test Are you a regular Vision Thing reader and have been wondering about what I am really like? With Typealyzer you can find out almost instantly. Typealyzer...

Gaia - The future of politics -- YouTube Video

Gaia - The future of politics (embedded below) I've been digging through my email bin trying to reach the bottom. It is getting closer or so I believe. I found a video sent to me late last year via this...

The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com

Link for this Post: The New Timothy Leary Archives Website My long-time friend Dennis Berry along with an assemblage of Timothy Leary's friends including Joi Ito, Ken Gofmann (RU Sirius), Joey Cavella and Chris Graves (the later two featured in...

Future Internet: Duncan Campbell examines the technology that will one day bring about the “thinking Web”.

Link for this Post: Future Internet - Internet - NetGuide I liked the picture that is featured at the top of this article by Duncan Cambell on the future of the Internet so I republished it at the top of...

Create Instant Mindmaps From Wikipedia with WikiMindMap

Links for this Post: Bruce Eisner Wikipedia WikiMindMap WikiMindMap home page (make your own WikiMindMaps) Here's a site that combines a couple of cool technologies, wiks and in this case specifically Wikipedia plus mind maps .You can generates a mind...

The Dream Machine Online

Link for this Post: The Dream Machine Online Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine. Three years ago, I wrote Remembering Brion Gysin Among Gysin's works was the concept of the Dream Machine. The...

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...

Awakening the Divine Within -- Enthogen TV on YouTube

Link for this Post: Awakening the Divine Within -- embedded YouTube video below Here is the YouTube description of this video: Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, and Stanislov Grof are among the people that speak here in this inspiring piece put...

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....

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...

Joi Ito's Web: "My Timothy Leary"

Link: Joi Ito's Web: My Timothy Leary. The picture to the left is from Joi Ito's website. For thos who don't know who Joi Ito is, his Wikipedia entry is instructive. I met Joi in the early Nineties at Timothy...

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...

The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video Ebbed in this post below The Shock Doctrine Book and Film Home Page The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism...

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...

Updated: NewsVine Launches ElectionVine: Widget Based Election Polling -- Vote NOW!

Link to this Post: NewsVine Launches ElectionVine: Widget Based Election Polling Duncan Riley on TechCrunch Update: I updated this post to remind you about what the black rectangle on the column of Vision Thing is for . . . and...

Andy Warhols TV -- FREE Vidio Via Alterati.net Torrent

Link for this Post: Alterati.net: Torrent Details for: Andy Warhols TV. This video torrent comes by way way of a post on GPod and so I am publishing great background they wrote for the video: At the start of the...

Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker Is Back Up

Link for this Post: Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker. Podtropolis is a torrent tracking and search site dedicated to downloadable movies and other content for the iPod. according to Digg where I found the site, " The popular torrent site...

Give Net Neutrality a Chance on Business Week Online

Link for this Post: Give Net Neutrality a Chance by S. Derek Turner in Business Week Online Here is an excerpt from this excellent article: Eliminating net neutrality would turn the open system of the Internet on its head. With...

Miss Live Earth? Watch the Videos on MSN -- Concerts For A Climate In Crisis

Link for this Post : Live Earth on MSN: The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis. If you missed watching Live Earth live, then you can do the next best thing -- watch it on video at MSN. According to...

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...

Incarcerex the Cure for Political Impotency YouTube Video

Link for this post Embedded Youtube Video Incarcerex: It's Time for a New Bottom Line by the Drug Policy Foundation This video came my way via the Entheogenic Reformation blog

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...

Pandora's Box Closing

Links for this Post Pandora To Shut Out Non-U.S. Users Thursday Evening by Michael Arrington on Techcrunch Closing Pandora’s Box: The End of Internet Radio? - 10 Zen Monkies Webzine -- RU Sirius Interview with Tim Westergen from SaveNetRadio.org Back...

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...

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...

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...

Get a First Life

Link for this post:: Get a First Life Have you been spending too much time in virtual commerece at Second Life. I know more that one of you fits that descGet a First Life has a message for you. Site...

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...

Robert Anton Wilson Memorial Video on YouTube

I posted "A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes" about the noted author and counterculture spokesman Robert Anton Wilson's passing in January. More recently, I have posted about a Robert Anton Wilson memorial...

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...

Visionary and Psychedelic Video Interviews by Amsterdam Broadcaster Luc Sala on YouTube

Link for this Post: Visionary and Psychedelic Video Interviews by Amsterdamn Broadcaster Luc Sala on YouTube Note: Photo to the left -- Luc Sala Back in the 1980s when I was hanging out with Timothy Leary, he introduced me to...

Find The Best Mind Expanding News, Articles, Media And People -- MindSearch on Second Attention'

Link for this Post: MindSearch on Second Attention. The tech behind the site is mainly Google but it is fun to search the assortments of websites, blogs, social networks and social bookmark sites including a couple of niche assortments that...

RU Sirius's New Book, True Mutations Features Interviews with Leading Cyberculture Idea Makers

Links for this Post: Available on Amazon: True Mutations (Paperback) by R.U. Sirius (Author), Ken Coffman (Editor), Ryder Carroll (Illustrator) Boing Boing: R.U. Sirius True Mutations book I got an email yesterday from Ken Coffman, aka R.U. Sirius that his...

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...

Mobilized Online, Thousands Gather to Hear Barack Obama - washingtonpost.com + YouTube Video

Linka for this Post: Mobilized Online, Thousands Gather to Hear Obama - in the Washington Post by Zachary A. Goldfarb. YouTube Video: OBAMA: Calls on Students to "Bend the Arc of History" This Washington Post story is about the first...

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...

Mind "Gyms" May Be the "Cognitive" Fountain of Youth -- New York Times

Link for the Post: As Minds Age, What’s Next? Brain Calisthenics - By Pam Belluck in the New York Times. Here is a bit from the beginning of this article in the "Health" section of today's New York Times: Is...

Alex Grey - World Spirit - Live Performance -- Google Video

Link for this Post embedded below Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanuka! This time of year when the days stop growing shorter and begin growing long put us in state receptive to the transcendent in many forms. I was fortunate...