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Have your personal message launched with the Kepler Mission to locate Earth-like planets.

SPACE.com — How Rare Is the Earth?

What do you think about the search for extrasolar planets? NASA’s Kepler Mission team would like to know, and so would the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. On the Kepler Mission “Names in Space” web page, you are invited to submit a short statement (up to 500 words) about the Kepler Mission and its search for other Earths. We’d like to hear your opinion about the significance of this project and its search. You are also invited to submit your name, city, state and country. Once registered, you will be able to download a Kepler Mission certificate of participation from the website. (No SPAM: Email addresses are NOT collected.

The names and statements of all participants will be burned onto a DVD, and launched into space on board the Kepler spacecraft next spring. The information will also be provided to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum as a historical document of public opinion about the mission and space exploration.

There’s a deadline to get on board: November 1, 2008.

The Asteroid and Enterprise 1.0

There is an article with an interesting point of view over at FastForward. Namely, the ongoing financial melt down is taking its toll primarily (at least for now) on the archetypes of Enterprise 1.0 – dinosaurs in a meteor strike – to use the metaphor of the article. 

The author asserts that in the ecological vacuum left behind, the nimble Enterprise 2.0 early adopters will catch the same break that mammals did 65 million years ago.

While poetic, I don’t know if that assertion can be supported with rational arguments.  But I do know that I get to link to this way-cool image:

The FASTForward Blog » Enterprise 2.0 – Now a necessity in a low/no capital world – The Death of the Dinos: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

A deep undercurrent of this blog has been how difficult it is for a conventional organization to adopt a 2.0 world. The entrenched habits of control, centralization and top down could not be shifted. No amount of appeals, about the power of a 2.0 world, more speed, better infomation, better conection inside and outside the enterprise, landed with the change.

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So until last week, it was still possible for organizations to chug along with a 1.0 perspective. For its key environmental factor, cheap and easy credit and access to capital was still in place.

A curious cautionary cloud computing controversy

This story reminded me that Dick Martin recently passed away.  Sad, because it deserves a Flying Fickle Finger of Fate.

I haven’t seen anyone propose that this sounds the death knell of cloud computing (yet again).  But maybe I can be the first to observe that it could signal the fact that cloud computing may be self-correcting. 

Hack of Palin e-mail makes case for sticking with .gov account

The break-in comes amid controversy over the Alaska governor’s use of the Yahoo e-mail account for state business. Internal documents obtained by reporters allegedly show Palin staffers discussing the possibility of using unofficial channels, such as personal e-mail accounts, as a means of evading subpoenas and requests under the state’s open records law targeting her official account.

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Though the authenticity of the released material was initially questioned, the McCain-Palin campaign today confirmed what it called a “shocking invasion of the Governor’s privacy and a violation of law.”