Posts from — April 2007

FanTent » Rap Covers by Professional Non-Rap Musicians:
Rap Covers by Professional Non-Rap Musicians

Posted April 6th, 2007 at 12:00 am by DoorFrame under Other

Rap music has traditionally been about depicting what life was really like in the overlooked American inner-city.

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there are some great songs, i’ve always liked the nina gordon cover…

Today is Penguin Day!:

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A Machinima Peek at Global Kids Islands – Second Life Insider:
The Teen Grid, however, inspired me. Most of the content on the islands is teen created. For example, for the one year birthday of Global Kids, they held a contest where you could win 1000L for designing the best birthday cake. Ryan Dayton actually made a surprising amount of the content, so I definitely look forward to seeing what he can do on the Main Grid.

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This should inspire and awaken everyone to the possibilities of second life for cosmopolitan change. These ‘kids’ are awesome and the globalkids project is clearly one of the best demonstrations of the possibilities of secondlife for the future. They bring kids together to learn and work together, to make the world and have fun.

Schools and museums are not for learning:
Anyone who has worked with me will be shocked. I’ve said ad nauseam that museums are all about learning more than any other function. So what am I saying? I’ve been thinking hard about learning in the process of setting up a new company Flow Associates. What if we said that schools and other learning centres are not about learning but about making,

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precisely.. they are about making, and through making people become something and by becoming something we are by definition learning, but learning is just a description of becoming, and becoming only happens when something is being done, created, made, be that thing material or mental.

Ten lessons:
Ten Lessons I wish I Had Been Taught

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some good thoughts here.

The Living Edge:
David Sifry has just put up The State of the Live Web, April 2007. To explain the Live Web, he points to a pair of pieces I wrote in 2005. If you’d like a more visual explanation, follow the slides from this talk I gave at OSCON last summer, starting here.

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Doc points toward Dave’s use of some of his work in the live web and more important the communal or collective web as compared to what might be thought of as the individualistic web. Of course, in my view, the www is a policy regime, a device that constrains and constructs relationships, not merely among data, but primarily among humans. The current transformation of the web into user-generation and user-integration is fascinating because it is making possible a much broader mode of awareness, communication, and community construction.

The Living Edge:
David Sifry has just put up The State of the Live Web, April 2007. To explain the Live Web, he points to a pair of pieces I wrote in 2005. If you’d like a more visual explanation, follow the slides from this talk I gave at OSCON last summer, starting here.

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Doc points toward Dave’s use of some of his work in the live web and more important the communal or collective web as compared to what might be thought of as the individualistic web. Of course, in my view, the www is a policy regime, a device that constrains and constructs relationships, not merely among data, but primarily among humans. The current transformation of the web into user-generation and user-integration is fascinating because it is making possible a much broader mode of awareness, communication, and community construction.

And the panda goes to… « Social Sim:
First of all, thank you. Thanks to the people who came out in droves to vote for the panda avatar I’ll wear for my 24-hour long virtual marathon in Second Life.

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Aleks is going to be a panda in relay for second life. her team the Guardian is looking for participants and sponsors.

DBNL . Johan Huizinga, Homo ludens. Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur:
Homo ludens. Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur

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of course it isn’t translated to english, but…. it is an e-text.

Standardized Childhoo:
In Standardized Childhood, Berkeley Professor Bruce Fuller questions the push for universal preschool tied to “public school bureaucracies.” Tax-funded preschools would provide one standardized model for young children, he writes.

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it sounds like bruce fuller is on to something, we should be encouraging social and cultural pluralism in preschool, and not be encouraging one size fits all systematicity, because the plurality of experience will in the long run produce better democratic citizens.