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“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 [...]
“The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur.
That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you’re already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. It doesn’t matter what industry we’re talking about- architecture, advertising, petrochemicals- they’re around, they’re easy [...]
“The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.”
(Link: gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: how to be creative)
Posted in Story on Apr 10th, 2008
“Blogging isn’t for everybody. Web 2.0 is for everybody. Keeping a half-decent blog going is very time-consuming work. So of course there was a market for more time-friendly Web 2.0 apps, like Facebook and Twitter. That doesn’t mean blogs will go away. It just means more opportunities for people to create and use new tools. [...]
“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)
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 [...]
…we’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
From I, Cringely . [...]
Yet they can’t get these phones through the airport like scanners at the front of the building. So what do they do? Seems a little cottage industry as sprung up at the delis and bodegas around the school so that kids can check their phones in for the day at $3 a pop. They get [...]
A quote from Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody.
Communication tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. The invention of a tool doesn’t create change; it has to have been around long enough that most of society is using it. It’s when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to [...]
Posted in Story on Mar 10th, 2008
Shouldn’t the URGENCY be all about the teachers right now?
I agree.
That means no pot roast nachos either.
Wait.
I’d heard of Gary before he started blogging, but the fact that he’s now willing to put his ideas out here and invest in the network, whether I agree with him or not, garners my respect and [...]
“I always think of public speaking as being a bit like jazz or the blues,” says Sir Ken. He says that he does not always necessarily know exactly what he is going to say, but he believes in stories and his presentation—like a jazz musician—is telling a story and he is taking people someplace. Yes, [...]
Once you put all this together, students can self-organize with teachers and fellow students to learn what they want how and where they want. My hope is that this could finally lead to the lifelong education we keep nattering about but do little to actually support. And why don’t we? Because it doesn’t fit into [...]
New thread: Speaker stories.
A pair of districts across the state brought in Ian Jukes to give cattle call bring-all-the-teachers-together style. Ian covered four hours. My price of admission was to throw a pair of “web 2.0″ inter-sessions.
My sessions were simply titled “Web 2.0: What is It?”
1. I’m not stupid enough to try and match Juke’s [...]
We are running directly into a future where relationships will be more valuable than information. In business, it doesn’t matter what you know, it matters who you know. In the arts, your product isn’t worth anything, but interaction with your audience is priceless. In education, knowledge is a click away, but the classroom is a [...]
Long time fans of the ijohnpederson Home Game™ know where this comes from. At each milestone I draw back, reflect, and smack around the pixels a bit further. The latest version is considerably honed from previous iterations, while keeping amazingly true to the original meaning of the text that brought many of us to this [...]
http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/01/convergent-v-di.html
Will Richardson’s “Business as Unusual” post tipped me to revisit a bit of Kathy Sierra.
The truly “important stuff” out there is “important” because it can easily be mashed to fit whatever situation. Like..
1. Trying to understand what Twitter is about.
2. Trying to help a teacher use new technology for learning.
3. Trying [...]
Really. This could be applied in most of our jobs.
1. Don’t wait for a revolutionary idea. It will never happen. Just focus on a simple, exciting, empty space and execute as fast as possible.
2. Share your idea. The more you share, the more you get advice and the more you learn. Meet and talk [...]
This really makes my mind hurt…in a good way.
1) We all have Google accounts, right? Good.
2)You’ll need an AIM (AOL Instant Messenger). I’m sorry. Go here to create one. Stay away from the rest of the garbage. We just need an AIM username.
3) Go back to Google. In your [...]
