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Chronicling the Bottom Up
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Rob is founder and site architect of opednews.com ranked among the top 200 blogs by technorati. The site is a very much bottom up site, with volunteers and members playing an integral in decision-making and crowd sourcing. The more bottom up an approach to the site I took, the more successful it became."
Rob offers consulting on new media, social media from his unique experience and perspective.
Rob is also writing a book about bottom up ideas and approaches.
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A Bottom-up Exercise in Understanding Top-Down, Hierarchy. Domination and Predators (2154 views) a request for a bull session on the connection between hierarchy, domination, predators and top-down systems, cultures and biosystems.
The System: Deserving Contempt, Resistance and Undermining-- (1337 views) Are you a part of the revolution, the resistance, the fight for humanity's future or are you a part of the system. There are things you can do you haven't thought of, steps you can take that you haven't considered-- some legal
Interview Transcript: Keith Farnish Interview Transcript. Undermining-- Legal and Illegal Ways To Fight the System (1674 views) an interview transcript with Keith Farnish, about how to undermine the system that is destroying America
The Pope's Bottom-up Revolution (754 views) Change is in the air. It almost feels like a miracle. With these kinds of things going on, it's reasonable to believe that almost anything can be achieved.
Facing The Reality of The System, Conservative Monarchists, and Embracing Bottom-Up Values, as the Answer (633 views) Asking congress or the White House or the DOJ to help is like asking wolves to protect a henhouse. It ain't happening. We need big change that does not depend upon nor expect the aforementioned agencies to do a goddamned thing.
How Smart Phone Apps Are Changing a Generation: Howard Gardner and Katie Davis Intvw Transcript part 2 (540 views) Howard Gardner talks about multiple intelligences and then, Howard Gardner and Katie Davis, authors of App Generation, discuss how smart phone apps are changing Identity, Intimacy and imagination in the App Generation
As Writing and the Gutenberg Press Changed the World, Are Apps Creating an App Generation? Howard Gardner & Katie Davis (632 views) Interview with Multiple Intelligences genius Howard Gardner and co-author Katie Davis discussing how apps are creating an Apps generation
Straight is Top Down (648 views) I'm on a tiny backwater island.. The roads are crazy. They go Up and down big hills, with wild twists and turns. Driving three miles takes 15-25 minutes. I tell the cab driver how scary these roads are. He replies, "We think that your giant expressways are scary. And a realization slaps me in the face. Curving, winding, up and down roads are bottom up. Straight roads are top-down. The insight expands.
Mandela-- The World's Number One Hero-- Teaches Us Lessons On Being A Hero (654 views) Mandela was probably the most revered, most beloved living hero in the world. His life exemplifies the monomyth/hero's journey archetype that Joseph Campbell and others have described. More, it suggests some ways that the heroic journey can be further understood and emulated
Marina Sitrin on Horizontalism-- transcript part 2 (468 views) Marina Sitrin talks about horizontalism and the horizontalidad movement in Argentina
Embracing Bottom Up As a "Value" My talk at the Public Banking Institute's Conference (958 views) I gave a talk on June 2, 2013 at the Public Banking Institute's conference on the New Economy. It was titled Bottom Up Economics and I'd written it a month earlier. But after hearing some inspirational talks from preceding speakers, I re-wrote it and turned it into something more impromptu that I felt would better express my vision of bottom up as a revolution that is based on the values of bottom up ideas.
Invisible Success, Civilizations that Die or Quit and Memes We Live By; Transcript of an Interview with Daniel Quinn (700 views) Daniel Quinn's book, Ishmael, about a telepathic gorilla, won a Ted Turner award for book with a hopeful vision of the future. It's become a bestseller translated into many languages and I recommend it as must reading if you've never read it. This interview discusses the book AND an essay on invisible success and civilizations that die or quit-- one he wrote specifically for this interview.
Hierarchical Republican Culture-- transcript of an interview with Andrew Schmookler, part 1 (666 views) What I'm saying is that the culture in which the Republicans are operating is a historically hierarchical culture, and that's reflected in the Republican Party, and that's part of how they operate.
"Oz The Great and Powerful" A movie with a bottom up, Occupy Hero Message (447 views) The movie is delicious and the fact that the story illustrates a bottom-up theme for the hero is simply wonderful, if you have cared about Occupy or if you're an activist.
Interview Transcript: Marina Sitrin, Author Horizontalism Part 1 (491 views) My interview with Marina Sitrin. It was an interview I avidly anticipated doing because of the knowledge she holds and the perspective she brings to the Occupy movement. She is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (2006) AK Press, published in numerous languages
Peggy Holman: Engaging Emergence; Moving Towards Order From Chaos-- Interview Transcript (612 views) Just short of a year ago I interviewed Peggy Holman about her book, Engaging Emergence. I'd been looking forward to the conversation because the ideas in her book are very exciting.
Video: Rob Kall Speaking at Occupy G8 on Bottom Up Economics (0 views) On May 18 I participated in the Occupy G8 counter summit meeting, where I discussed bottom up approaches to economics.
An Occupy Wall Street Eyed Review of The Avengers Movie and the Future of Movies (197 views) I had to go see the movie, THE AVENGERS, in 3D Imax And it was entertaining. But having been through the past year's Occupy Wall Street experience gave me new eyes. And what those eyes viewed brought me to an epiphany. Superheroes serve the 1%. They serve the top down powers that are waging a massive war with the 99%-- we on the bottom.
Top-Down, Centralized Thinking Is Destroying The World's Economies (0 views) The US real estate market went to hell when bankers centralized home financing. Before then, local bankers worked with people in their communities. The move to centralized, algorithm driven banking led to the massive increase in foreclosures and the collapse of the real estate market. Now, French and German leaders Sarkozi and Merkel are calling for increasing the centralization of control of European economic policies
A Bottom Up Virtual Choir to Delight Your Heart and Milk Your Tears (0 views) a choir composed of over 2000 videos, started by a silent video of a conductor, creates a virtual, bottom up choir that is quite extraordinary. Please take the 15-25 minutes it will take.
