All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

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.

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Hulk Respect Process!:
The Hulk would be good.

FACULTY: This is intolerable! This is an affront to academic freedom! This is tyranny!

HULK: Puny human! Hulk fair! Hulk respect process! RAAR! [Hulk crumples a nearby Toyota into a wad]

FACULTY: Eep!

HULK: Hulk college budget being cut? RAAR! Where capital? RAAR! HULK LOBBY! HULK LOBBY!

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some great responses:_

U Michigan Unveils Master’s Degree in ‘Social Computing’:
The University of Michigan’s School of Information (SI) announced a graduate-degree specialization in “social computing” through a Master of Science in Information. The university said the program is the first in the country to focus on social computing, the term describing the wave of open technologies that enable masses of people to interact and exchange and sort information.

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Wow this is an interesting event. I wonder where it will lead.

Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history:
The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats.

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The sloan foundation has funded this development. It uses scribe, which is a bookscanning system.