A people that needed our help many years before the earthquake called the island of Hispanola to our attention.

Haiti has been impoverished and for decades. The recent earthquake has exacerbated those problems. 10’s of thousands of people are dead. Women and children are begging with their silent prayers for us to help them.

It is easier than we may think for us to help them.  It has been reported that EVERY HOPSPITAL in Haiti has been destroyed.  That is why I am recommending above and beyond all the amazing charities that are currently supporting the relief effort in Haiti for you to donate to ‘Doctors Without Borders’.

It is my opinion that Dr.’s w/out borders can do the greatest good in the least available time, because of the destruction of hospitals . To make a donation to Doctors w/out Borders please go to Haitian Earthquake Response.

If you have an idea for Haitian earthquake response I haven’t mentioned please leave a link to the charity of your choice in the comments below.

Please Donate right now!!!!

God Bless You & Keep You Well !!!

The obvious reason you haven’t received your Gwave invite yet, is the fact that nobody has invited you

But if you’ve managed to wrangle yourself an invitation from one of the 100,000 preview invitees or the original dev sandbox invitees, originally handed out by Google, here are a few thoughts on why you haven’t got in yet.

All that I’ve talked to on Google Wave were awarded 8 invitations to give out. Some have claimed that certain big wigs got more, but I haven’t personally talked to anybody who has.

Once you invite somebody into Gwave, it says that they have been ‘nominated’ which to me means that the invites are placed into a queue somewhere. Some said that a few of their ‘nominations’ have got in but I’m not sure that these people weren’t already among the original Google invitees and it just took them longer to accept their invitations.

If you read the image above it says “Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.” What I think Google is doing is using new Google Wave users gradually in order to test how robust the system is and to fix errors along the way. They have a big influx of new users and I’m sure they are experiencing bugs that they hadn’t foreseen. Note it also says above “Keep in mind that this is a preview so it could be a bit rocky at times.”

I believe that, as they shore the system up, they will begin accepting the new nominations in increments that they believe they can handle without crashing. I’m imagining the ‘nominations’ will receive their invites in a week or so, but this is just my guess.

Personally, I wish I had 100,000 invites myself to give out.

I can’t wait to see you on the inside.

*UPDATED Oct, 3rd

My original thoughts have been somewhat verified by a few Google employees working on Wave.  First of all special thanks to Anthony Baxter, senior Google software engineer, for commenting on this post and letting us know that I was on the right track.

There were also these two tweets from Lars Rasmussen, who led the development of Google Wave, and lead Google Wave project manager Stephanie Hannon, which stated things along the same lines.

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I’ve also verified from inside Google Wave that some of the ‘nominations’ have indeed received their invites. Will Moody was nice enough to let me quote his Google Wave email invitation.

XXXX XXXXXXXXX has invited you to preview Google Wave!

Google Wave is a new online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Learn more at wave.google.com. This is still an early preview of Google Wave, so you may run into some bumps along the way but we look forward to your feedback.

I’ve put my Internet work on the back burner as of late, anticipating, and now executing the move.  At twenty five years old I am so proud of all that Jamie has managed to accomplish in the last few years, becoming an even greater mother and excelling in her career. Focusing on her achievements has given me time to re-access my Internet work and so after we get situated in Tallahassee, I’ll begin instituting some new ideas.

I’ll be putting most of my social media writing on a totally new blog while changing the primary thrust of JesseNewhart.com to more of an artistic focus. I’ll also be keeping a regular posting schedule.  As it has been lately I’ve been posting when I could squeeze in the time.  Thank all of you so much for your continued interest and support. I look forward to working with you all in the future from my new digs in Tallahassee.

Now, though it saddens me, I must pack this computer away and it may be a week or so until I talk/tweet with you. That is an eon in web time so I’m sure by then everything will have changed

Peace, Love, And Laserbeams;

Jesse

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside your own house
4. Be in love with your life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Read more about Jack Kerouac on wikipedia.com.

You got to dig how they used Neil Young’s ‘Old Man’ for the intro & outro…

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This is what Biz Stone had to say on the Twitter blog.

We’ve updated the Notices section of Settings to better reflect how folks are using Twitter regarding replies. Based on usage patterns and feedback, we’ve learned most people want to see when someone they follow replies to another person they follow—it’s a good way to stay in the loop. However, receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow in your timeline is undesirable. Today’s update removes this undesirable and confusing option… Confused? That’s understandable and exactly why we made the update.

I’ve been a fan of Biz for a while now but that last sentence in particular doesn’t sit right with me. It comes off condescending and Mark Zuckerbergesque. I am perfectly capabable of understanding what he is talking about, how about you?

It used to be that you had the option to choose in your Twitter settings whether or not you wanted to see someone you are following’s @replies to someone you aren’t following. Why take away this option? Are Twitter users really so stupid that we can’t handle this decision? Biz seems to think so. And as for seeing “one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow” being undesirable, I beg to differ and so do many others. My gut instinct tells me that, presented with the choice, more users would elect to see these “one-sided tweets” than would not. I for one WANT to see when @THE_REAL_SHAQ says something hilario

Regardless if this was an elaborate publicity stunt or not, Twitter has begun to lose it’s luster. It’s no longer the next cool thing. Twitter was featured on Oprah, it doesn’t get much more mainstream than that. So where is an uber-geek/early-adopter to go when they want to socially network away from the maddening crowd?

Why The Cool Kids Are Flocking to Friendfeed

While there are many reasons for you to spend more time on Friendfeed, below are a few of the more refreshing aspects of a much under utilized service.

1. A More Coherent Conversation

Often when posting a link to Twitter many people send me comments on what they think about the post. Unfortunately these comments aren’t apparent to others who have seen or commented on the link. On Friendfeed, not only do people have the ability to ‘Like’ the content you post, making it easy for other users to find quality content, they also have the ability to add a comment, making it very easy for a conversation to develop. Often times a simple post is elaborated through commentary into a much larger revelation.

2. A Better Aggregation Of Content

Friendfeed is after all a collection of your personal feeds. One place for all of your Delicioius, Digg, Flickr, Twitter, Youtube and Facebook posts and favorites. Of course the same thing can be accomplished on Twitter using third party services such as Tweetlater, but on Friendfeed it is super easy to focus on the links from one particular service so that you can see only the posts from someones Digg feed for example. Also Twitter only stores your posts for about 2 months (unless you use another third party service such as Tweetake) whereas Friendfeed holds the data from your feeds indefinitely acting as a defacto social bookmarking service.

3. Improved Social Networking

A huge part of social networking is meeting new people. The ability to comment and converse on a particular thread helps to elucidate your personality, inspiring healthy debate and fostering deeper connections. Also an intelligent comment placed in the right spot can get you noticed by some of the blogosphere’s heavy hitters such as Robert Scoble or Louis Gray. Of course let’s not forget about Friendfeed rooms which allow you to congregate with other users with similar interests such as food or greasemonkey.

4. Real Real Time Search

Not only can you search items posted to Friendfeed from Twitter but also links posted from Digg, Delicious, etc. in real time. Friendfeed’s advanced search operators allow for some powerful search possibilities as well.

…Don’t Unplug From Twitter Just Yet

I’m not suggesting that you should abandon Twitter for Friendfeed. Twitter is simply a part of your FF experience as much as Stumbleupon and Facebook. It is the place where you can comment and discuss on the whole of your online experience. The place where the all of you hangs out with the all of everyone else. Friendfeed, while not exactly an infant startup, has yet to be adopted by even many ’social media experts’  Sign up today and learn the ropes before the rush. Be careful though. You thought Twitter was addicting

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

If social media is going to work for you, you have to get involved.  See which social network(s) are right for you and dive in head first. Interact with people. Make mistakes. Learn. 

Even if you’re already involved, there is always room for improvement. Which relationships need more nurturing. How can you better serve your community. Don’t know? Ask somebody, they’ll let you know.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. 

Be the person you’ve always wanted to be.  Practice what you preach. This new paradigm of social media networking, marketing and promotion demands us to maintain an almost impossibly idealistic stance. One of complete service and devotion to others without ever thinking of personal gain. This balancing act is one of the trickiest you’ll ever have to walk, but if you make your best efforts to stay true to yourself and others it will be noticed, appreciated and respected.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. 

You’re social media community is a great place to find clients and it’s also a great place to find others you might want to hire. Flesh out the details and be sure before you enter into a more professional relationship. A bad fit can easily turn ugly on the internets.  Once you take on a project, follow it through to the very end. Do your best to see that the other party is properly satisfied and get ready for that free and wonderfully effective word of mouth.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Many people gripe that social networks are a giant time waster. In fact a recent study suggest that social networking makes you more productive. The more time you invest in your social network the more it will reward you with deeper connections. Of course you should also take this to mean that it’s ok to unplug for a while and take a break. Don’t worry. Your tweeps and fellow myfacers will still be there when you come back rejuvenated. Who knows your absence could just make their hearts grow fonder.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I hope you’re actually reading all those links that your friends are sending your way. It’s the best way to stay on the cutting edge of the real time web.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. 

About %1 of people on the web are jerks. That being said, it is easy for a message to be misconstrued.  When most messages transmitted are text, it can be hard to decipher the tone someone intended towards you.  Most of the time an earnest reply, or a “thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it” can turn a percieved enemy into a new connection. If that doesn’t work then it is best to just move on. Like Gary Vaynerchuk likes to say “Don’t drink the hatorade!”. You will garner respect for taking the high road.

The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.

Keep your mind in a constant state of openness.  Be willing to truly listen to what others have to say and don’t hold on to your ideas so strongly that you are unable to see a new and greater truth.  Besides nobody likes a know-it-all.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Earnest debate helps the truth to rise to the top for all to see. If you truly believe that you have the right idea about something, keep the courage of your convinctions.  If you debate respectfully while keeping an open mind, you and the person with whom you are debating will be the better for it in the end.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but once you extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again.

Keep a watchful eye on what the web is saying about you. If you see an attack, come quickly to the defense. Unfortunately as your reputation grows so will the need to put out these kind of fires. Of course this also means that you should be always mindful of your P’s and Q’s and quick to offer up an apology for any wrong doing, intentional or otherwise.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

One day it seems you are the darling of the web, the next it’s dunce. Most probably neither extreme is exactly true. Remain constantly moving towards your goals, ever evolving. The important thing is that you have taken the initiative and and are moving forward. The fact of this alone separates you from most of the crowd.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Some conversations just aren’t worth getting involved in. Don’t soil your good name in the dirt of the day.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

A true friend will encourage you when you’re doing well and give you constructive criticism when you really need it.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Go with your gut and don’t be afraid to try something new. Many times I’ve presented posts to my community that I thought would be devoured ravenously only to have them meet a mediocre response. Other times an article I wrote on a lark ends up spreading like wild fire. Luckily the harder you work and the better informed you strive to be, the more your intuition seems to pay off. Make your own luck.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Word up Socrates. Word up.