well it's been a month since my trip officially ended and now i find myself back in nyc facing a similar dilemma before i left. money or how NYC will suck you dry in a matter of seconds / days / weeks.

but that's not the point of this message / post / whatever... now that i'm back, i'm glad to have this little space on the net to call my own, rant my raves and be more meta than on my other blogs... honestly, with the luck of seven, i felt i was living in a project bubble. wether or not that was a product of my own manifestation will be left to the highly paid doctors of the future.

so, now that i'm back, i'm going to use noneck.org as away to communicate my inner most thoughts in my own mother tung (bad english), promote events / photos unrelated to my other projecsts and talk about the disparate barnacle projects.

as for projects, i now have four. none of these provide a single ounce of income. well, one of them i hope will provide some income... the others i hope will build income.

on the luck of seven - yeah, that trip i took. well, i'm looking to turn it into a much bigger project - first, is the children's book, but the ideas for the children's book are wrapped into two ideas. the first is a documentary film explaining the journey and the second is the realization that no longer am i dealing with just a set of topics but an interlocking set of ideas that provide a strategic framework for community development and good corporations. at heart, i know this is a massive undertaking that needs continuous funding and development.

alive on earth - if you've heard of alive in baghdad then you know a portion of the story. as i was traveling around the world, Brian Conelly and i started discussing the creation of a not-for-profit to benifit alive in baghdad. too boot, i've been kicking around the problem of how to include what i've learn from "the luck of seven" AND David Cohn and i had long discussed an entity that does crazy community journalism / citizen video project. after reviewing the community journalism field / tools & technology advocacy / community video projects - we've decided to congeal a multitude of ideas into a kick ass not-for-profit advocacy / consultancy shop.

williamsburg coworking / not an alternative - if you recall, i'm a huge fan of finding like minded folk and working with them. my friends at not an alternative are rapidly evolving into a much larger organization that needs help. as williamsburg coworking was a side project beka and i started, her greenpeace job will soon move her away to a downtown manhattan address. in the meantime, we're talking about finding someone to hold down the fort and redoing their web presence in drupal 6.

finally, as if these three projects weren't large enough...

taxiNYC.tv - i've decided to get my new york city hack license and document the road trip. this will allow me to drive a new york city cab and process all of these thoughts that are in my head. while i've read many of the cabbie blogs, i know this is can be dangerous and poor paying position. on the other-hand, it's one of the most unique jobs in the world.

too boot, i've found myself in a particular predicament. as i journeyed, i congealed my best thoughts while in motion. weather it was a cab, a train, a plane, a bus - the opportunity to sit silently and was priceless. looking out of countless windows and watching the world pass before my eyes, i wrote countless stories of a wondrous world within my own head. now i'm addicted to those wacky stories that i lived. now that i'm in nYc, i need that same thrill.

so yeah! here's to being an adventurer!

i really don't want to even think about putting up a blog post digesting today's notes.

a few reasons...

one - i spent the day running around thinking, and getting ready for the open stage...
two - most of today's content really doesn't even come close to yesterday's presentations... though, i did enjoy Sugata Mitra's and David Galipeau's comments in facing the digital divide...
three - some jerkoff, called me an idiot and said yesterday's notes were useless...

in the meantime, check out my flickr photostream while a find some q-tips, clean out my head, and get tanked... btw, keep you eye on the space below... i will be twittering.

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so i like to be difficult... like really difficult...

i finally had some time and upgraded gallery to version 2.0, in my lack of oversight i deleted all of my old images. i'm in the process of updating every gallery, and then integrating it with Drupal.

until then you can visit www.nonecknoel.com/gallery for all my nifty pictures.

until the end of the nyc primary, my photo gallery is down...

this goes to show that not too many people visit my site for my self nude portraits... just kidding!

in the meantime, take a look at my handy work....
- Norman Siegel for Public Advocate
- Clean Slate NYC

"Let's raise a standard where the good and wise can repair. The Rest is in God's hands." - George Washington

groovy, some how i killed all of my images. SHIT!

well i guess you can call this my blue period. since, the wee early days of my life on the internet, i've always always had a two-tone theme. since december, i've been experimenting with drupal and civicspace using the negen theme developed by Federico Olivieri.

as i grew tired of a black and white design, i moved to an ugly gray and orange design. while it was simple, it just didn't have what i was looking for... so after a day of procrastination and one hour of customization... i specked out this theme. while it's not perfect a few things look better and finally things are almost there...