October 17, Monday
7:00 PM October NYC Web Design Meetup
770 Broadway
October 18, Tuesday
7:00 - 9:00 PM The Ecstasy of Defeat by the Editors of The Onion
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
October 19, Wednesday
3:30 PM US Royalty
Puma Store, 33 Union Square West
6:30 - 8:30 PM Nightlife @Daylife Presents Khoi Vinh: What Comes After Reading on the iPad?
Daylife HQ, 444 Broadway
October 20, Thursday
6:00 PM - Midnight US Royalty
Brooklyn Bown, 61 Wythe Avenue, between N 11th and N 12th
L to Bedford Ave, G to Nassau
6:00 - 11:00 PM Obliterati: Do You VYou?
Sweet and Vicious, 5 Spring St
October 21, Friday
8:30 AM DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
The Gallery, 108 Jay Street
October 22, Saturday
9:00 PM US Royalty
72 Orchart Street
F to Delancey
The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Occupy
Image via WikipediaCongregate. Do not disrupt. This is about getting together, peacefully, amicably, almost in a celebratory way. This is not about disrupting traffic. This is not about preventing people from going to work. This is not about seeking confrontations with the police.
It has to stay completely nonviolent. It has to become super, duper organized. It has to be sophisticated.
Occupy one public space in each city, each town where people camp out around the clock. If the space's capacity is 1,000 people, stay at 1,000 people. Get people to participate in rotation. So one person might clock in for one 24 hour period to be replaced by another person who signed up to be there.
The occupation can not end until the fundamental fabric of the democracy has been impacted. The goal is one person, one vote democracy. The insane people running the banks on Wall Street threw the bus into the ditch and gave the world the Great Recession. Now they want to go back to their same old ways. That is not an option.
We want a new architecture for global finance. And so the occupation has to continue. It has to grow. It has to grow on all continents. It has to grow from one city to many cities. It has to go to every town, every city. Maybe you are a small town, and your public space will only hold 50 people, and that is okay.
The thing is, we are all connected. The occupation in one town is connected to the occupation in every other town. Each city is connected to every other. This is a global movement, a national movement.
It has to stay nonviolent. It has to stay intelligent. It has to be about the conversation. The mass, public action is about the conversation. For every person camped out at a park, there are 1,000 people and more participating online. That online "occupation" is as real as it gets. These are real people with real opinions, with real challenges, real political weight.
This movement is about roping in more and more people into the conversation.
Sales Tax, Wealth Equity Tax
The Conversation Is The Revolution
Tahrir Square In America
America And Europe Need To Learn From Japan
This Woman Is Dynamo
The Mini Me Stimulus Bill Lacks Imagination
Imran Khan
I got to see Imran Khan in person Friday evening. He showed up at the Columbia Journalism School. This dude is to Pakistan what Amitabh Bachchan is to India. You don't find personalities like Amitabh and Imran in countries like England and America. You don't find this one person that dominates the imagination of an entire country, and big ones too.
Image via WikipediaHappy Birthday Amitabh
This guy Imran is the next Prime Minister of Pakistan and I think he is going to be a good one, and I speak as a fairly political person. I was Barack Obama's first full time volunteer in New York City.
I asked him. App to cricket ke samrat rah chucke log hai. You have been the emperor of cricket. Ab aap rajniti mein hain. Now you are in politics. Rajniti mein samrat hone ka arth hota hai Prime Minister banna. To be emperor in politics means to be Prime Minister. To aap Prime Minister kab ban rahe hain? So when are you going to become Prime Minister?
"Agle election ke baad, Insa-allah!" he said. After the next election, God willing.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Super Amit, Super Swabbed
Mike Bloomberg, Amit Gupta
I showed up at the New Work City space in Chinatown on time - 9:30 PM. And I left past midnight. The people who were doing the swab thing were busy the entire time I was there.
Events: Week Of October 10
The first person I met was Nick Gray. Nick Gray! This was my first time meeting Nick Gray in person. This is quite an amazing person. At times it can feel like this dude is a mutual friend to everybody who is somebody in the New York tech ecosystem. If Nick Gray did not exist, the New York tech ecosystem might have to create one. He is one of those people.
"Oh my God, Oh my God, it's Nick Gray!" I said. He was out on the sidewalk eagerly waiting for people to show. The venue was one floor up. This dude was so feeling it.
Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves (2)
Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves
Brooklyn Loves Bollywood
BollyBrook Says Hello
I was born Indian. Nick Gray chose to be Indian. We are both Indian through and through.
He was in a somber mood. I tried to cheer him up.
"It is good to see you too, Paramendra," he said simply.
The Huffington Post: Help Amit Gupta: $30,000 Reward Offered For Bone Marrow Match
This whole thing has been an amazing social media success story. But it has also shown social media can be an echo chamber.
There are enough brown folks in New York City and in New Jersey to find a match for Amit Gupta. And there are enough mass based Desi/South Asian organizations in New York City and New Jersey to push the number into thousands, tens of thousands.
The tech crowd is only managing hundreds, and that is not good enough. But it is managing to raise thousands of dollars, and that is great.
The swab thing is so, so super easy.
How much time do we got? It is a race against time, right? It is time to go past social media. Keep using it, but now use it primarily to raise money. I guess there are costs involved to do the swab thing.
Now we have to treat it like a political campaign. We have to start making phone calls. We have to start knocking on doors in the right neighborhoods. We have to reach out to mass based South Asian organizations in the region. They might not know Amit, but they don't have to. Every person who swabs and is not a match is a potential match to some other member of the South Asian community down the line. That not Amit angle is the one we have to push now.
Raise money among the tech, social media, smartphone crowd. Reach out to the non digital, non social media, non smartphone crowd for a potential match. We should be able to organize some events by next weekend.
I want to reach out to people like Nick Gray and Tony Bacigalupo to see if I can get a little more involved.
It can not be all that hard. Google up "South Asian organizations in New York City, New Jersey" and start building a list of people to call up, office holders of the top organizations.
If there was a match somewhere in the tech/digital crowd, we would have found it already. It is time to reach out to the true grassroots. We are not it.
I showed up at the New Work City space in Chinatown on time - 9:30 PM. And I left past midnight. The people who were doing the swab thing were busy the entire time I was there.
Events: Week Of October 10
The first person I met was Nick Gray. Nick Gray! This was my first time meeting Nick Gray in person. This is quite an amazing person. At times it can feel like this dude is a mutual friend to everybody who is somebody in the New York tech ecosystem. If Nick Gray did not exist, the New York tech ecosystem might have to create one. He is one of those people.
"Oh my God, Oh my God, it's Nick Gray!" I said. He was out on the sidewalk eagerly waiting for people to show. The venue was one floor up. This dude was so feeling it.
Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves (2)
Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves
Brooklyn Loves Bollywood
BollyBrook Says Hello
I was born Indian. Nick Gray chose to be Indian. We are both Indian through and through.
He was in a somber mood. I tried to cheer him up.
"It is good to see you too, Paramendra," he said simply.
The Huffington Post: Help Amit Gupta: $30,000 Reward Offered For Bone Marrow Match
This whole thing has been an amazing social media success story. But it has also shown social media can be an echo chamber.
There are enough brown folks in New York City and in New Jersey to find a match for Amit Gupta. And there are enough mass based Desi/South Asian organizations in New York City and New Jersey to push the number into thousands, tens of thousands.
The tech crowd is only managing hundreds, and that is not good enough. But it is managing to raise thousands of dollars, and that is great.
The swab thing is so, so super easy.
How much time do we got? It is a race against time, right? It is time to go past social media. Keep using it, but now use it primarily to raise money. I guess there are costs involved to do the swab thing.
Now we have to treat it like a political campaign. We have to start making phone calls. We have to start knocking on doors in the right neighborhoods. We have to reach out to mass based South Asian organizations in the region. They might not know Amit, but they don't have to. Every person who swabs and is not a match is a potential match to some other member of the South Asian community down the line. That not Amit angle is the one we have to push now.
Raise money among the tech, social media, smartphone crowd. Reach out to the non digital, non social media, non smartphone crowd for a potential match. We should be able to organize some events by next weekend.
I want to reach out to people like Nick Gray and Tony Bacigalupo to see if I can get a little more involved.
It can not be all that hard. Google up "South Asian organizations in New York City, New Jersey" and start building a list of people to call up, office holders of the top organizations.
If there was a match somewhere in the tech/digital crowd, we would have found it already. It is time to reach out to the true grassroots. We are not it.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Letter To Joanne Wilson
Events: Week Of October 10
Hello Joanne Wilson.
The Wilsons Were In Cairo Recently
This Week In Venture Capital: Gotham Gal
The Gotham Gal
Gender And The Wilson Household
A Mind Blowing Party
I showed up for your event for the evening that simply had Central Park West for venue and I read the phrase open space somewhere. I got off at Columbus Circle and walked 25 blocks north before going underground. I guess you and your crew were hogging the sidewalk somewhere along the 25 blocks I did not walk.
Oh, well.
Hello Joanne Wilson.
The Wilsons Were In Cairo Recently
This Week In Venture Capital: Gotham Gal
The Gotham Gal
Gender And The Wilson Household
A Mind Blowing Party
I showed up for your event for the evening that simply had Central Park West for venue and I read the phrase open space somewhere. I got off at Columbus Circle and walked 25 blocks north before going underground. I guess you and your crew were hogging the sidewalk somewhere along the 25 blocks I did not walk.
Oh, well.
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