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“Passion is what’s going to get you through your failures.”

[Source: Corner Office - Jana Eggers of Spreadshirt - How a Receptionist Helps Me Hire - Question - NYTimes.com]

Merlin Mann interviews Seth Godin about his book Linchpin. It’s the best 33 minutes I’ve spent learning thus far in 2010.

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This quote originally struck me as related to the “echo chamber” effect of social networking. After sitting on it, it’s resonating internally to describe the frustration I’m having connecting deeper with a part of my network that I haven’t had the chance of meeting face-to-face.

We are overdoing the assumption that we are like everybody else. We need to go out to look at what everyone else is like. We need to have a dialog with them and with ourselves about what we are trying to build.

Elizabeth Churchill on Episode #7 of Tummelvision, a new podcast on the TWiT Network that discusses the art and science of using technology to build and engage communities of people.

Disclosure: Many of the women on the Canadian team play in either Madison, WI (where I live) or Duluth, MN (where I grew up). This whole situation makes me feel closer to Dean Shareski.

Awesome.

danah boyd on ChatRoulette.

“We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.”

This is what happens when major telecommunications companies fail to lead, fail to follow, and fail to get out of the way.

Go Google.

[Source: Google ]

“As a social experiment, at least, ChatRoulette makes the Internet seem ‘new’ again — paradoxically by making it feel old.”

[Source: Switched.com]

This is why I love the Internets.

Chatroulette!

“Caring about our students is about listening to them. About learning about them — from them. It is, as I’ve written before, about understanding that if we hope to be a transformative figure in their lives, we must be willing to be transformed ourselves.”

Chris shares a breakthrough in connecting his thoughts about inquiry and caring. Simple question: “What do you think?”

[Source: Chris Lehmann]

“It means that book publishers will have to earn their bound-book sales, though at the same time they will be able to mass-market digital pulps.”

When everybody calms down that this thing doesn’t have a camera, they’ll realize, like AKMA, that the iPad isn’t about replicating the iPhone, only bigger.

Apple’s purpose for the iPad is all about disrupting the print, picture, television, and movie media industry in a way that the iPod disrupted the music industry. The iPad isn’t a transformation of the iPhone, it’s a transformation of how we will consume (and later produce) media. It will start slow, much in the same way the iPod did back in the day. Ten years out, we’ll be transformed.

Most see this now as a “book or device” thing. The secret sauce is in the delivery. The transformation of the print industry into a mass market of digital pulps, as AKMA puts it.

It will also get it’s camera.

[Source: AKMA]

“In the work of open networks, you have to have compassion, communicate, create value, be decisive, be creative, be different to become and stay relevant. There is a new kind of authority that you get by developing your own network and your brand, but it’s a very different kind of authority we have to navigate in than in more traditional hierarchical and closed networks that rely mostly on age, race, sex, creed, social context and financial power.”

Another quote from Seth Godin’s interview of Joi Ito.

[Source: Joi Ito]

“To have all of your sensors on in full blast, you have to spend a lot more time listening and playing and a lot less time forecasting and blabbing, in my opinion. If you do this, you can often find the butterfly before the hurricane comes. Somehow, you intuitively feel that ‘this is the butterfly.’”

Seth Godin interview with Joi Ito.

[Source: Joi Ito ]

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I’m switching between Safari, Firefox, and Chrome almost daily at this point. Why?

1. Safari lacks decent ad blocking capabilities.
2. Firefox is a pig compared to Safari and Chrome.
3. Chrome (on the Mac) is still broken in beta.

I’m hoping that this new Safari AdBlocker helps stop the madness.

I picked this quote from among thousands of stories being told on television about the situation in Haiti.

An older gentlemen was in Haiti with two colleagues and his son-in-law to work with government officials to build basketball courts for children. They were in their hotel as the earthquake collapsed their hotel. This older gentlemen was rescued quickly, suffered only minor injuries. His colleagues and son-in-law are still missing, presumed dead. The emotional interview ended with, “I’ve put their pictures up on Tweeter and Facepage.”

In 2005 Ross Mayfield helped with “Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people.” I often paraphrase this with educational audiences. “Web 1.0 was about connecting people to things. Web 2.0 is about connecting people to people.” Even Tweeter and Facepage.

[Update] Reminder. It’s not the tools.