It’s not too early to begin planning for Educon 2.1 in Philadelphia, January 23-25, 2009.
Photo courtesy Konrad Glogowski with a little @ijohnpederson remix.
Category Archive for 'Empathy'
From “The Big Swtich” by Nicholas Carr.
Computing’s evolution into a commodity utility is a shift akin to the late-19th-century move to the electric power grid, with a similarly profound effect on society and business.
The full power and consequence of a new technology are unleashed only when those who have grown up with it become adults [...]
Found in the fine print of the new house we are looking at.
Canning Company: Each Owner of the lot within the subdivision is hereby advised that lands to the west of U.S. Highway 51 are owned by a canning company and that canning of agricultural products including, but not limited to, sauerkraut may occur [...]
I believe I’ve come very close to finding The Life Uniform™.
5.11 makes clothing for cops. It straddles that line between casual and work. It’s very utilitarian. It’s comfortable (elastic waistband for all my fellow fatties!) while still maintaining fashion.
@ijohnpederson fashion advice incoming. Buy 10 shirts, 10 pants. Mix and match [...]
Online Life vs. Real Life
Posted in Design, Empathy, Meaning, Play, Story, Symphony on Apr 18th, 2008
“at current rates, within 2 weeks the population of my Twitter followers will exceed the population of Alpine, Texas. Dunno what that means. 12 minutes ago from web “
(Link: Twitter / gapingvoid)
The Next 8 People on My Blogroll
Posted in Empathy, Meaning, Story, Symphony on Apr 16th, 2008
“We are the Random Technology Un-Committee and we are more what we aren’t than what we are.
We aren’t a committee;
We aren’t a task force;
We aren’t an advisory group;
And, we certainly aren’t organized.
We do not have a charge;
We do not have a mission;
We do not have a task list or a timeline;
We do not have a [...]
“You don’t know if your idea is any good the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings is not as easy as the optimists say it is. There’s a reason why feelings scare us.
And asking close friends [...]
“Twitter is about hope and love, although the casual observer might miss that completely.”
(Link: /Message: Featured Post From 9 April 2006: My Twitter Story: Why I Use Twitter)
Creating a Network Around the Network
Posted in Design, Empathy, Meaning, Play, Story, Symphony on Apr 4th, 2008
If you’re creative, if you can think independantly, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case.
From gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back [...]
“Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of ‘three stories and an argument.’ The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the ‘ASCAP cartel’ to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital [...]
Hugh McLeod does the cartoons. His writing also completely rocks.
Expressive Capital
1. First we had Human Capital. You! There! Go to the next village and kill everybody because I’m the Chief of this village and I say so etc.
2. Then came Physical Capital. Land, property, factories etc.
3. Then came Financial Capital. Money, credit, dollars etc.
4. [...]
I’ve been working the past month to package my “learning 2.0″ pollen into 20 minute messages.
Click on the pretty blue text for a profound message.
UC Berkeley Puts Courses On YouTube
“The University of California Berkeley has started uploading video recordings of course lectures on to YouTube.
The initial round of lectures covers 300 hours of video on subjects including Chemistry, Physics and Non-Violence, with more content to come. The move by Berkeley is claimed to be a first by some, however [...]
Utopie - Villemard, 1910
“Chromolithographie”
I think it’s French from 1910. A prediction of what the Year 2000 would look like.
(Via AKMA.)
Edit: My favorite Willard Daggett quote: “Are our classrooms today more like or unlike those of 1970?”
