Category — General

T4 – Pay Attention:
Pay Attention

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how should we teach our students…. this video presents some concerns…. about the digital learner… and how we can play to them.

eMarketer.com – More Women Online:
Women outnumber men online, and it’s likely to stay that way.

Females now constitute an undeniable majority of the US Internet population.

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hmmm, this is interesting. i wonder what this demographic actually means….

TechEBlog » A Look Back: Microsoft “Bob”:
Microsoft “Bob” was basically software that “provided a new, nontechnical interface to desktop computing operations.”

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bob… was yer friend.

Dangerous Intersection » Blog Archive » Gentle “Miranda Warning” cards for religious moderates:
–Gentle Reminder to a Theist Acquaintance–

You have publicly made a religious claim that is vague or has no trustworthy basis in fact. If I had remained silent, you might have erroneously assumed that I agreed with you. Because I value our relationship, though, I am hereby taking this moment to advise you of my disagreement. I am handing you this card to remind you of my beliefs:

* There are no invisible sentient beings such as Gods, spirits and ghosts.
* When people die, they are completely dead. They don’t “go” anywhere.
* The ancient religious scripture on which you rely is untrustworthy because it is vague, self-contradictory and historically unsupported.
* To best understand life one should employ a naturalistic worldview free of supernatural elements.
* There are many important things about life that humans simply don’t know and it is important to acknowledge our ignorance.
* I judge morality entirely on whether people demonstrate kindness to one another, not on religious beliefs.

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Just a light little guide for those who are less interested in concern for others than they might be.

Life Support: Let the children go on foot and on bike:
In 1972, 87 percent of children who lived within a mile of school walked or biked daily; today, just 13 percent of children get to school under their own power, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a significant parallel, before 1980, only 5 percent of children were obese; today that figure has tripled, says the CDC.

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people need to learn to walk again.

I have a request for help, if you can spare the time. I’d like to spread the word about a little project.
Here’s the link: http://superaleja.metaphorica.net/

She’d like to have a better computer:) She’d like to make the world better. We can help with the first, so she can more efficiently accomplish the second.

Cool Tool: Tool Box Grill:
Tool Box Grill
Compact travel BBQ

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yes, i have one of these, but not the gas kind, the briquet kind. it’s great.

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.

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.