Welcome.

Currently, I'm job-hunting while developing Grripz™. I also provide PC services. Since February 2011 I have been seriously collaborating with a couple high-minded and highly experienced persons to create a 21st century civics course.

In February 2010 I was selected as a contracted researcher for the World Water Assessment Program Report for UNESCO, a branch of the United Nations. A 45 page link resource with descriptions for each link that was a by-product from my research has been posted to water.re-configure.org (resources will be continuously added to this document).

My interests include how things work, how they are made, self-guided learning/alternative education, the origins of our ways of life (history), insight that helps DEFRAGMENT knowledge, intersections of technology, law, banking, government, corporations, secrecy, openness, the development of cities, mapping knowledge, ideas related to authority, and how we think about and communicate information. I have plans on working more with sensors and the Arduino (+ txt messaging). I find video documentaries (see this list + Journeyman Pictures + my notes on videos I've seen) to be useful for conveniently traveling around the world. I'm also gradually learning the programming language Python.

Comedy has had a special place in my life. I designed a t-shirt and sticker for the Bill Hicks Foundation some years back which are still available. It was a great thing to have been told that the mother of Bill Hicks wore the shirt after accepting the design :)

Another significant part of life I am drawn to is being forced to adapt and adopt or conform to defectively designed environments and systems. For all this and more I was amusingly given the title "one man think tank" by the J-Lab Institute for Interactive Journalism.

Since January 2008, I have been Executive Director for the 501(c)3/non-profit Earth Intelligence Network public intelligence online journal | old website | Public Daily Brief

At the end of 2009 I finished a one year side project researching the "true cost" of a cotton t-shirt and produced a shirt that lists Water, Energy, Travel, Emissions, Pesticides/Toxins, Fertilizer, Import Cost, Labor. I hope to get this back into print production soon since they are all sold out.

As "Chief Scout" for the Earth Intelligence Network, I poured myself into archiving many links here that include finds on information resources, mobile technology, online learning, simulations, data visualization, documentaries and events. This has now migrated to a Twitter feed and occasionally PhiBetaIota.

My first published writing came in the summer of 2008 in a book that consisted of over fifty writers entitled "Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace" (Free online version and hardback version available).

In January of 2006, I made my first presentation in the Washington D.C. area to an audience that consisted of former-CIA, current military intelligence officers, technology corporation executives, journalists, researchers, consultants, and a variety of others. The countries represented spanned from Singapore to South Africa to Canada.

Robert Steele organized that event, and as soon as he read a 2004/2005 proposal of mine, he offerred me a speaker position at his conference. The proposal had ideas that now could be expressed as converging GoogleEarth & Secondlife before either of the two were publicly released.

In the summer of 2006, I did my second presentation at Boston College for the seventh annual convention for the Media Ecology Association, where Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold was also a speaker.

My past work (2004-2009) with author Howard Bloom had me travel to both urban and rural Russia in Autumn 2005, Amsterdam in Spring 2006, Malaysia and South Korea in Summer 2007, as well as many space-industry related events both public and invite-only from 2006-2008 that included many professional encounters with the highly admirable Buzz Aldrin. In 2011 I traveled to Turkey.

+ As of November 2008, I've been posting links to the EIN Twitter feed.
+ Here's the non-profit YouTube channel for EIN
+ My no-frills Drupal website is at Re-Configure.org and my contact info is here
+ My Linkedin page (is there any value in LinkedIn? I've had an account for years.)
+ My Facebook page (I rarely use FB)
+ Here's the back of my non-profit biz card that anyone can print showing the Top 10 Global Threats, 12 Policies, 8 Players, and 8 Humanities

March 2006 in Amsterdam with Douglas Rushkoff (via webcast from NYC), and Howard Bloom for an event I produced at Felix Meritus. Composer Octavio Vazquez also attended.

Moscow's Red Square, Autumn 2005

Seoul South Korea in Summer 2007

Seoul South Korea, home of public newspapers on display

Brooklyn, NY 2007 with investigative journalist Greg Palast

DNI's first Open Source Intelligence Conference in 2007 which was inspired by Robert Steele's conferences that preceeded for many years prior. 2006 peek