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I'll see if I can come up with something nice one of these days. I have my little grey ones crunching ideas as we speak. Some FIAT-like bill/note design could be nice I suppose, and I guess there must be a QR code or two ("private" and "public") printed on it. Ah, just reread the opening post. I'm at it.

I'm thinking something like Lynda.com only with a much lower entry threshold and a much wider target audience. Lynda.com delivers "online video tutorials to help you learn software, creative, and business skills." Prices range from $25 per month for Basic ($250 annually) to $37.50 per month for Premium ($375 annually). More at their about page + payment plans page + FAQ page. I'm thinking a near unlimited amount of subjects, categories and skills, and based on crypto currency, preferably Freicoin. According to the August 12, 2013 issue of Forbes (a year old article) "Subscribers [to lynda.

I have been unavailable for quite some time, and didn't read this until now. I'll keep it in mind and see what I can come up with together with Fedde who had some ideas as to how we can make it work application-wise. Sooo wink noted, I'll keep you informed. Should I post sketches here in this thread?

Sorry guys, I've not been active much lately. Lots of crap has happened in my life these last couple of weeks and I've been rather miserable. Short story is my best mate since I was three just died, and yesterday I cut my bleeding hair off in some vain attempt at feeling better. Well. Anyway, disclaimer up, here's what I've been thinking: My coding skills are limited to html and css at best. So building a search engine, well, it's not my table, but though I changed the title to involve a search engine, well, as Fabrizio says, it's an obstacle, but it doesn't have to be one, and I am not real

Cool and deadly! Can't wait. Great!

Yes, and thanks a lot, it's not that I am not grateful, and I really wish I could help, but I am basically legally insane in periods, and you can't trust me in things like keeping an ordered schedule, much less have responsibility for a class and kids' education. I am just the worst teacher ever. I honestly think the world is best served without me teaching anything. But I can help you out researching and like I said, I can put together an Illustrator cheat sheet and something, but teaching? Can't teach an old dog new tricks I'm afraid. I've tried teaching and instructing in various settings.

Now I know, only eye-candy and nothing solid. But what would it take to make a couple of geniuses to cough up a few algorithms to make Right sense out of a heavily tagged, rated and categorised video db. I though about it. Maybe not start with videos at all, but rather try to see what it takes to make another answers.com, only with an underlying goal to go video grade in step 2 on the same db, to develop it into a working beta to show investors. That we have a product, not just the idea. Anyone here on the board who would happen to know where I can find people who would be clever enough to w

Well, I'm thinking about something like this: note: it's just a mock-up sketch, so no need to comment on the colours, name or logo or other things Exactly how it would be coded isn't yet essential, there are plenty of ways and that's not the problem. The challenge is how one could fund and run such a site, and how to make good stirling from it. And most importantly, putting up a framework and a set of limitations that would define the site to fill the gap between answers.com and youtube sort of. And how can crypto-currency payments become involved without people necessarily having to pay

Again, and talking of curriculum, I am not the man you seek. I'd end up destroying their little minds. I'm serious. I'll try and put together a quick reference sheet or something and keep them in mind in the future and who knows, I may put together other things too. And if I find a format that works, who knows, I could make a design book for kids of it or something and try to have it published. Which could be a good idea. But it's also highly likely it ends up somewhere in the pile I have of other half finished projects, manuscripts and the odd synopsis for something revolutionary, I have stac

@Fab: It's not often in the news, but dolphins have a reputation of being eh rather promiscuous and they are not eh, racist is not the word, hm specist (?) either, so living and swimming with dolphins? Not me. They can be noughty basterds. But quite intelligent and thanks to them for saving drowning people and guiding ships in shallow waters. If they had hands and a voice box god knows what their crafts and concerns would be....

Thanks for your lengthy reply, but I feel this is more along the line of Fabrizio's thinking. I made this thread to share the idea of a rather different concept, that doesn't really need the upper hand of teachers or professors. The users ARE the professors. Atleast for a few minutes a time. The twitter of a marriage between youtube and wikipedia sort off, where the users produce the lessons and is moderated through ranking and search algorithms similar to google's system and all the other tools of the trade. This would also yield valuable data on tons of people's interests and search history

Hehe, nah, I just used those naughty sites as an example of existing technology, with well developed pay-per-view solutions. I'm not thinking about Infact, I'm not talking about classes at all, but seeing how some of the most popular channels at YouTube are presenting daily or weekly life-hacks, walkthroughs for games, well, educational stuff. My idea is to make such a "micro-lesson" site, where people all over the world could post shorts conforming to the format, let's say a minute's length or two, and get real credits for their efforts, payed in crypto currency, like Freicoins. How t

Project in short: To build a site where users post requests for answers and practical and visualised solutions to problems of any sort, and a place for people to share any knowledge they possess presented as short clips of a few minutes each, and earn a few coins doing it. Part archive, part community. It was Fabrizio that got me thinking when he suggested I should make some online Illustrator course. Though I am not comfortable with the teaching part, I got an idea. For besides me and my illustrator magic there are tons of nerds like me and other people out there with a similar rather narro

Like I said in the other thread, I like the idea, I just don't like the idea of being a teacher myself. Started writing a lengthy reply here, but it turned out to be a thread on its own. I would love to hear you comments in http://freicoinalliance.com/topic/26-micro-lessons-platform/ -- it sort of spins off of this thread here, but still different.

I couldn't possibly teach them anything you couldn't find out by googling graphic design on the net. I am probably the typical worst case scenario in any teaching situation. That was also the main reason I quit the university, when I realised that the only few jobs I could get after finishing my degree would be in teaching. I can't stand teaching. Used to be a drum teacher. Turned my hair grey. Then blue. And then normal again. Like I said, a Q & A of some sort could be arranged I suppose.

Hehe, for the videos, we could use the same kind of platform those cam chicks use. Go private sort of thing. I could be an internet hooker and make big money! Wiii But seriously, no, I don't think so. I would have to dedicate myself too much to it, it would absorb too much of my time. Time I can spend reading books and ranting on forums. That and I couldn't possibly afford the hair-extensions and the golden platform shoes I would need for the shots. But it's a good idea that could be done. But I'm just so not a teacher. It would end in a third world war or and ice age or something. But someti

Is that the same dolphin guy I read about a while back who conducted a long term experiment involving a dolphin, a water-tank-appartment and a half naked woman tossed in some LSD and then wait and see what happens, leading to some rather amazing inter-species behaviour? It strikes me how this guy seems very out-of-time. Like someone living in the future with access to all kinds of scientific research, then beam back 100 years and make a fortune and play with some dolphins. Sort of makes sense to me.

Political parties and big corps today, nations tomorrow issuing currency with built in tax and stock systems and health insurances and many other things. Blockchain or not, the technology that will win the race and survive the digital currency evolution, must be simple as cash and as versatile and secure as fiat credit. Perhaps it's just me, but that looks an awful lot like Republican senator Ron Paul after a few too many bloodymerries. Like his reasoning though, although it sounds rather paranoid

Thought about the dolphin one actually, I'll keep it in mind, perhaps I'll try a few adjustments to the shape and find the better one. Suppose I could pump up it's head a notch to see what that might look like too. All good stuff Back to the drawing board. When time is right. I'm a terrible teacher I'm afraid, but I sort of know Illustrator like the back of my hand, so perhaps one day I could put together a few walk-throughs or something, the basic stuff, the stuff companies charge their clients for, the knowhow. It's a bit like bicycling, once you know the moves, it works by itself if

I'll do my best, but I'm a terrible teacher. But some sort of Q&A could be arranged I suppose. I can't teach them much about design really, I work mostly by intuition, but I suppose I could share some tips and tricks with them to get them going. First thing they will have to learn in Illustrator is to use modifier-keys on the keyboard together with the mouse (in Illustrator you construct with both hands) and get to know the toolbars and learn the most important operations. Then another thing they could do would be to take some pictures of some objects, get them up on the screen and learn

Kool. I think that somewhere in the adobe.com site you can find some tutorials and courses. I'll try to keep my eyes up and give you a nod if I find something you can use.

I use Adobe Illustrator CC (for drawing and constructing) and some Adobe Photoshop CC (for pictures, like the balloon pic etc) which is basically the industry standard. Now these apps are quite expensive and Illustrator can be quite hard to learn, but if you are using an old computer, there is supposed to be a free (legacy) version of Adobe Illustrator out there, even the complete CS2 package I believe, but you have to use XP I think, alt. MacOS 8 or 9 to make it work (there is no Linux version). I recommend you download via Adobe.com, it should be available, but you'd might have to register t

Love the new chat! Maybe i'll start using freicoinalliance.com as my new irc-client. Works fine! Well done!

I believe the future of nations is borderless and landless. There will be traditional states and national denominations also in the future, but I believe we will also see the advent of decentralised nations issuing passports and legal security to people living anywhere in the world. Some sort of unions or organisations issuing economic and juridical frameworks for it's subjects. A nation is its people, it's tax-system and its laws, not politics and billion dollar elections or millions of square feet of more or less useless landmass. Most politicians are basically laymen with big mouths and

Yes, I agree, it's a nice logo, but there are many issues with it. Firstly it's like you say, it's hard to see the bird, and the drawing is very detailed, and the whole logo is transparent so it changes appearance quite drastically when pasted on different colour backgrounds. Also, and this is the most important thing, it's not vectorised and cannot be used in printed publications, the available versions are simply too small, and no CMYK version is available to my knowledge. The colour changing thing is actually a cool thing in my mind, but like I said over at the Freicoin community foru