The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Image via WikipediaJanuary 15 was the first ever World FoodSpotting Day, and I made a point to go over to Philadelphia to celebrate. It was an amazing experience. I later tweeted saying I had never had so much fun eating with perfect strangers before. 
Image by Nic*Rad via FlickrI just showed up at Fred Wilson's blog, and read through his post for the day. I quit coffee, but have not quit Fred Wilson's blog that I visit near daily. You know I visited because I leave a comment at the bottom of every post I read. I check in the AVC community way. 
Cover of Denise RichardsI showed up for what I thought was a panel discussion on Assange and Wikileaks earlier in the day, instead much of the discussion was about denial of service attacks. 
Image via WikipediaI tried very hard to limit myself to few Social Media Week events this year. First I decided on one: the party Thursday. Then I added one more. Then one. And I am like, that's it. But now looks like I will have attended seven Social Media Week events by the time the week is over, one of them on LiveStream. That counts. I got to witness the entire panel discussion, and got to ask a question on Twitter. 
Image via WikipediaEinstein, the most celebrated physicist in human history, my favorite Dead White Male, started out struggling with maths. Much later in life he liked to joke that he was still struggling with maths. Early memories die hard. The key mathematics that gave shape to the Relativity, he had to ask around for. A mathematician friend of his led him in that direction. 
Image via CrunchBaseNew York Observer: Screw Meetup: Organizers Up In Arms Over Redesign: In the new redesign, ordinary users can arrange for events, leading some to declare that organizers have been downgraded to moderators..... less than 1 percent of organizers active on Meetup have complained or commented on the redesign .... a simple solution. “If they don’t like users organizing events, they can just turn it off. It's a feature organizers have full control over.” .... "As we see how people are using the new tools we will keep iterating to simplify and improve the experience."People love the Facebook newsfeed today. It is central to the Facebook experience. But when Facebook first introduced it, there was major ruckus. It is inertia. People dislike change. They are used to doing things one way. They would like to keep doing things the same way.
Image by That Other Paper via FlickrI was just looking at the Social Media Week site for the first time after spotting a mass email from Toby Daniels. I got lost on first try. Digital DUMBO #17 IWNY Wrap Up
Thursday, July 01, 2010 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (ET)
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Did you miss out on Internet Week NY? Or maybe you had so much fun networking and crashing parties that you want to re-live it all over again?
Join us for a summary & wrap party Digital DUMBO style where we will showcase some of the work done for the event by Dumbo's finest. We're heading back to Galapagos and we hope to see you there to toast to another Internet Week NY event gone by!
Image via Wikipedia![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vgFjf96vzZxciwHi48fRdVfQai4g8QQGQTz7DlffL49XuMkqY2tiN2Wn4H_A3-dhIlmOYEBkORlMURVglAXjVU7bb4aRJLhXcplLEVI_XUOFdADtz5o_GnhMjXXS8ifRxxmw45je6SEWUWIZRP4OKX=s0-d)
tomorrow evening - well, I am going to a Lunar Year
celebration with John Liu for this evening, we are trying to get the guy to show up for a February 28 Holi celebration in Astoria, I be pulling strings - but tomorrow, Tuesday, I am going to this MeetUp that I am unusually excited about. I guess at some level I am bummed I had never heard of the MeetUp before this month. Makes me feel like I have been out of the loop. But I found out about it during Social Media
Week, and I am glad. (Social Media Week: The Best NY Tech MeetUp Ever)
Future MeetUp, but it is in Tribeca, the Jay-Z Tribeca. I love Brooklyn, it is the most residential of all boroughs, but Y+30 is a much better name in the first place.
on Feb 23rd - we are talking the future of food, register for the event at http://meetup.com/BLKNY30
From Michael Pollan to molecular gastronomy, food bloggers to food
porn, celebrity chefs to rock star butchers, the world of eating has
changed remarkably in recent years. There’s never been a more exciting
time to be a food-lover, and yet we’re also increasingly concerned
about issues like food safety, sustainability, and health.
What will the food world look like in 30 years? Will traditional
restaurants still be around or we will be eating in a world of pop ups
and food trucks? Will scientists rule the kitchen?
We’ll talk to experts across the industry, including chef Michael
Anthony of Gramercy Tavern, Glenn Roberts, founder of Anson Mills,
marketing whizzes from Rooster Design Group, and writer and Food52
co-founder Amanda Hesser. (@amandahesser)
After the panel stay for demos by cocktail experts and chefs, tastings
by local producers, and cameos by some of the city’s cult food
vendors.
I am so looking forward to this, you won't believe. I am so surprised I was not even aware of this MeetUp's existence until the first week of February this year. Finding about this MeetUp has been one of my rewards for having attended Social Media Week events with abandon. http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2010/02/social-media-week-best-ny-tech-meetup.html
Wow. I am like wow. What a theme for a MeetUp. I like vision people, I like vision talk, I like talk about the future. I am such a huge fan of Esther Dyson, and it is because she is such a visionary. She is a remarkable woman in many other ways, but that is my primary reason to like her so much.
Y+30 is stretching it, it is hard enough to figure out what the landscape will look like one year from now, or five, 30 is eternity, but the year will roll around for sure, and the reward is not in ending up being accurate - I fully expect most of our predictions to fall flat on the face - but in making the effort itself. Those who think hard about the future live the present more fully.
I am so excited about this event, I fear I might miss it. I am feeling superstitious.
I am so glad you have Disqus integrated to your blog. Disqus is my idea of a micro blogging platform.
Another reward to me from Social Media Week has been Tumblr. I use Twitter to broadcast, Facebook to connect, and Buzz/Tumblr to listen. Glad to be following you on Tumblr.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sysru3n2wuzHdCdAjsSz4EN84NI7KtTU8cH5l86UNPkcEdbqurpmjyIklEYHWLMbMmgMGGvowN7O5IxDTNysUYTfMNjU3EvSeNxlAJQjLGwDcK8PRXr-bjyaJ0gQx1IZkSl63Xv2117z7538bHa5gQ=s0-d)
took off with Dean 2004, and I - and Barack - were Deaniacs; I was predicting a Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan
thing for Dean, but did not realize it would happen so soon; Dean 2004 was organized around MeetUps) - so it is only fitting I talk about the week within a NY Tech MeetUp framework.
Week Toby (@tobyd) was impressed. That is how I got into the final event of the week, the fabulous party Friday evening. I danced the way I like to: I gotta sweat it out.
a few times, I started feeling like maybe I am running for Mayor of Grand Central. But I am pretty sure some daily commuter is Mayor of that big, fancy place.
Week started with a new friendship with Jacob Brody (@anwaraizer). This white guy actually raps! He has his own rhyme down. He is with VentureBeat. I showed up at the Paley Center. I was not in a mood for breakfast, but figured some orange juice
might lift me up, so as I made my way, I looked at this guy. When close I realized he is not who I thought he was. Back with some orange juice, he looks at me and goes, "Are you Paramendra?" I look at him again. He still was not who I thought he was. But he said my name.
and in the process putting New York
squarely on the tech map.
Brooklyn Overpass. Their office space is great. It is a loft. I just love the idea of all that open space. The whole block or two, the building, the whole space felt like a blank canvass on which tech startups could congregate, grow, mature, take off. The locale has that tech startup feeling.
Computer.
dollar market. Three, Google should not get into it. If I needed proof Silicon Valley won the dot com round. (Presenting At The Dot Com Hatchery)
is the next Twitter, I totally get it conceptually, although I have admitted I was late to the party. I got it conceptually, but did not think it was for me. But Social Media Week was my FourSquare week. I was checking in left and right.
was on the panel. I stayed around to meet her in person later.
online from the 140 conference. I was very impressed. So I am honored to be meeting you in person like this."
advice. 
app you might be working on." The guy is a die hard Steve Jobs fan, so don't get him wrong. It is just that he feels tech entrepreneurs should look to solve some real problems, the bigger the better.* Tony Bacigalupo, New Work City http://www.nwcny.com/...My personal favorite was: * Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund http://www.acumenfund.... Though I thought both Scott Heiferman and Clay Shirky spoke well, and the Choir was all energy.
* Ben Berkowitz, SeeClickFix http://seeclickfix.co...
* Majora Carter, Majora Carter Group http://www.majoracart...
* David Nassar; Jason Leibman, Alliance of Youth Movements http://www.youtube.co...
* Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund http://www.acumenfund...
* Jay Parkinson, The Future Well http://thefuturewell....
* Clay Shirky http://www.shirky.com...
* Paul Steely White, Transportation Alternatives http://www.transalt.o...
* Rachel Sterne, GroundReport http://groundreport.c...
* Jose Antonio Vargas, Huffington Post http://www.huffington...
* Conor White-Sullivan, Localocracy http://www.localocrac...
+ special guests Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping Choir http://www.revbilly.c...
+ a special announcement from the MTA http://www.mta.info/...
Nemeth has Imagine Election. (@imagineelection) 
Black Women. He got me into a Wednesday event in Harlem that was full but that I wanted to get into. I got there. It was the fanciest venue of the week. L Martin Johnson Pratt is the name.
every day. So I feel like I have been eating all my vegetables. But I am not on Tumblr. Do you think I am missing out?" 
Thursday afternoon and for a few minutes got to sing something I did not think I was capable of. This was the most out of the box event of the week.
Forum event. He asked if I was going to the next event - the NY Tech MeetUp - and I said yes. I saw him again at the New York Times
event Friday afternoon. I got him to put me on the invite list for the "by invitation only" party Friday evening. Who says it is crowded at the top? (Party Photos)
free food was great. The music was great. One particular clip hit close to home. less often these days or something, but you don't seem to show up in my Facebook stream as often as you used to," I said. 