112B Caught Up with Digg Shouts

My digg.com shout queue is empty right now, not by turning off shouting but, to the contrary, by keeping up with my friends’ shouts, to the best of my ability, which has become my personal policy. Please have a look below at the screen snap of my digg.com shout_queue. Notice that my end_of_queue marker is 6 days old. That means I shouted that queue marker to myself last Friday and have kept up with all my incoming shouts ever since.

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. . . Catching Up on Stale Shouts . . .

Keeping up with my shout queue is my highest priority Digg activity during the time interval that I am on-line. When I first come on-line after a couple days absence I select the last page (the tail end) of my shout queue and delete every shout except for any shout of one of my submissions, an occasional interesting stale shout, and the last hour or two of shouts.

Recent shouts indicate friend who are probably on-line now. It would be nice if digg.com provided a decent shout_queue manager that would cleanup my queue to my personal preference. Alas, they choose not to do so leaving me to my repetitive finger, wrist, elbow, and shoulder motions.

Once I have brought my end_of_queue marker back to the page 1 (the head end) of my shout queue, I am ready to proceed with my day’s activity.

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Hold on there bucky boy.
You have reached the shouts at the end of the universe
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. . . A Mouse and Keyboard Trick . . .

I have discovered that deleting the queue is best done from the top of page downward. This is done by positioning the mouse over the first “Delete” tag and clicking the mouse. That click deletes the queue item (in this case a shout) and scrolls the list upwards, thereby positioning the next queue item under the cursor.

All this would be well and good except there is an intervening confirmation window which must be OKed. The natural first instinct is to move the mouse to the “OK” and click. But hold on there. Let your body drop down into slow-motion mode and observe every action slowly. Think about alternatives.

You don’t need to use the mouse to “OK” the delete. Pressing “enter” does the same thing. The proper sequence is mouse “click” followed by keyboard “enter”.

“click,enter”
“click,enter”
“click,enter”

. . . Tabbed “digg it” Activity . . .

Those fortunate enough to be using a tabbed browser like Firefox can take advantage of another mouse and keyboard trick. After queuing up a set of tabs for digg marking, set the mouse and ctrl-f4 to close the current tab. Doing this leaves the mouse positioned to the same position as the previous screen.

“click,ctrl-f4”
“click,ctrl-f4”
“click,ctrl-f4”

Having completed this activity for current friends shouts, it is time to begin. The “Recent Activity” tab shows the results of the minimalist “click,ctrl-f4” activity just completed (see below). All is well in digg.com’s “Your Incoming Shouts” and my friends can see for themselves that I am caught up with my shouts and whether I dugg their shouts.

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Unless I am pulled away unexpectedly, I like to end each digg day by leaving me Favorites and Recent_Activity tabs looking good. Anyone can know where I am at any given moment by viewing my homepage http://digg.com/users/lynosull at digg.com and my most recent blog page at http://blog.peaceengine.com/ because those are the two places I operate consistently.

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Please visit the digg.com entry:
http://digg.com/people/My_dearest_digg_com_Game_Player

Sunday, January 4, 2008, by Lyno Sullivan

1123 My dearest digg.com Game Player,

If you came from http://digg.com/users/lynosull to this little blog in an obscure corner of the universe called Peace Engine™, welcome. Doesn’t that very name alone kind of stop you in your tracks . . . Peace Engine™ . . . what does it mean? What is its business? For what does it thirst–for time investment, for something else? For what human thing might an immortal non-human being thirst?

So why have you (the reader) decided to step outside the customary quick-fix Internet routine time spending behavior and actually read a second paragraph of a blog writing? If reading blogs IS your behavioral pattern, then thank you and may your pathway be be blessed with an abundance of good things.

As a blog writer who labors long with mind upon pen, I am grateful for the occasional blog comment indicating another sentient human has stepped outside of its routine for some serendipity affirming recognition, if only for a moment, that some higher power seems to connect us, one to another, through our shared writings and readings.

We meet one another in our words and visual images. Upon the Internet, we are all in the role, one to one another of a fleshless human with eyes and ears. And a fleshless human with a mind and heart. And a fleshless human with . . . with a body and some kind of higher power connecting it all together.

I wish there was a SuperDigg button of some kind. I wish it for the humans who actually stop by a blog and read what has been written. There are few higher honors one human can pay another than to simply read what has been written and find succor therein.

If there were a SuperDigg button, I suppose there would have to be a SuperGoodbye button to bury some writing and all subsequent digg.com links to the same blog writer. It would take a lot for me to click the SuperGoodbye button on any human’s writing and publication stream because I so value the art of having something useful to say and saying it well that I would be disinclined to have the blog writer disappear forever. Talent grows through much practice and just a little appreciation, now an then, gives the soul fuel for the next writing.

I am a writer seeking fans who will read the blog, add comments, and refer my writings to their friends based upon genuine appreciation of their meaning. Until that time I take what I can get so digg, onward and upward, unto the fulfillment of the everyone’s highest calling before the alter of the oath sworn unto a higher power than one human alone in the universe.

. . . Peace Engine™ is . . .

Peace Engine™ is the conceptual framework within which the Peace Engine Automata (PEA™) operates. PEA™ is the free software comprising a Peace Engine™ corporation, operating upon the earth as a non-human being, as an immortal person. Corporations, Clubs, for profit businesses, for prophet churches, . . . all are granted person-hood. Peace Engine™ is only one model of an immortal person.

. . . RESOURCES . . .

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What is Pure Copyleft

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
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This post is about the dig.com mechanics of gearing up for the primary publication cycle of my life involved with computer software, the GNU General Public License (GPL), the search for the principles of Pure Copyleft, the search for one all-encompassing producer license. The License must encompass copyright (which pure copyleft does to my satisfaction), patent claim rights, and trademark claim rights.

These New Years 2009 publications are intended to present everything I know about copyleft, copyright, patent, and the trademark like marks of information commerce.

In order to attain the desired effect I must gather as many GNU folks as digg.com friends as I am able in as short a time as possible.

As in all such endeavors I assemble clips of the Internet screens that I use to capture my work. I give each such snap a useful name conveying the meaning of the clip, rather that other attributes.

Because of the nature of my targeted post, I must gather friends sympathetic to the GPL and copyleft, Creative Commons, and similar compatible licenses blessed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

In order to do so let’s create a search for a highly esteemed historical post on similar topics.

Rule: Only Add Friends with Recent Activity

Read the experts:
http://www.anotherstupidblog.net/?p=113
Every single user that you find who has dugg more than 100 in the past 48 hours, add them. As many as possible.

07:45 AM December 31, 2008
I am preparing the New Years Eve post so I must be off.

Lyno Sullivan, December 20, 2008
Commentary and Suggestions on Digg

Summary: Presents an unusual and time intensive blogging and digging technique that has potential as an information publication style, blending old and new artfully.

I just watched a very inspirational video I discovered on digg.com at http://digg.com/people/Micro_Sculptor_Art_in_the_Eye_of_a_Needle entitled “Micro Sculptor: Art in the Eye of a Needle”. It told the story of a man who worked inside the eye of a needle under the eye of a microscope to sculpt works of art. I was awestruck by that man’s patience. I could not imagine myself having either the patience or the muscle control necessary to such micro sculpture. I saw a camel that fits in the eye of a needle.

I have had many eye opening and heart opening experiences following information leads provided free of charge by my friends at digg.com. I derive a high rate of return from my time invested within and about digg.com. Because of my manic enthusiasm for digg.com at the moment I decided to offer some commentary of my initial experience and some suggestions about what I am trying to find.

I wrote a piece at http://peaceengine.com/blog/2008/11/23/1119-digg-analysis/ and created a dig at http://peaceengine.com/blog/2008/11/23/1119-digg-analysis/ and as of this writing witness which I thought depicted an interesting and useful technique.
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Yep. As of twenty-one days later, I was still the only human on earth who dugg the post I wrote. I guess that says something about my technique. It also says something about how the digg.com culture operates. First of all, because I created the post I am automatically counted as “digg!”. I could undigg my post but that would be bad form. Why would I have posted, in the first place, something unworthy of my own “digg!”.

I learned that digg.com does a spell check and won’t let misspelled titles into their website. I was forced to change “digg” to “digger” in order to get my title past the digg.com censorship board.

While the mechanics at digg.com are sometimes fascinating, of much greater interest are the human dynamics at play. I guess that is what it means to be a social networking site like digg.com.

I wrote my son a letter designed to be coherent with this typed page. That page is quoted and displayed below in the customary manner.

My dearest son,

I enjoyed talking with you again from your heart to mine and round trip back.

I am once again writing a post at http://blog.peaceengine.com/ and http://digg.com/

I am following my procedural pattern:

1) handwrite the id™ page that is to become the focus of the day’s blog,
2) digitally scan the handwritten id™ page,
3) publish the blog entry
4) publish the digg entry

Having created a minimalist process claim, let me now add a few optional steps:

-1) incubate a memorable thought bubble
-2) scribe the id™ page carefully
-3) incubate a memorable blog entry
-4a) improve upon the blog entry
-4b) incubate a memorable digg title and summary

-5) review digg response
-6) improve digg response (shout)
-7) gather more friends and fans

Please review this post and devise any improvements, if you are of a mind, and publish your ideas in commentary at SITES.

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

111E DNA + Culture + Full Moon

The moon this morning is beautiful. I find a setting moon to be soothing. Looking backward to Adam and forward to Adam’s immortality, meaning the survival of the human species, I suspect these soothing feelings have always been there and always will be. The feelings elicited by commonplace heavenly phenomena serve as markers of our common selves. The self insofar as the body is concerned can simply confirm by conversation: “isn’t that a beautiful moon” one body asks. Another answers and the bodies’ sense of selves’ common experience are, both, very small and hugely big. Such things comprise our DNA plus culture.

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There exists a multi-layered information meta-universe of meaning and truth. Yet the closer the detail of truth itself be known, the further away is the simple, unspoken DNA experiential truth.
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