Monday, August 26, 2013
tweets
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. - Joan Didion
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
-- Gustave Flaubert
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
@hrheingold Excellent to see you move to WordPress. If you ever want to consider a @cbox installation for your courses, please let me know
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mkgold/
Deb Mills-Scofield (@bluelobsternets)
8/26/13 6:40 AM
RT @skap5: Grant me the wisdom to greet both failure and victory as imposters.
How could Microsoft have been so blind? Here’s where Ibn Khaldun comes in. He was a 14th-century Islamic philosopher who basically invented what we would now call the social sciences. And one insight he had, based on the history of his native North Africa, was that there was a rhythm to the rise and fall of dynasties.
Greg Satell (@Digitaltonto)
8/26/13 6:44 AM
A decade later, Tesla now officially a threat to the auto industryzite.to/1diNyo1 via @Zite
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
-- Gustave Flaubert
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
@hrheingold Excellent to see you move to WordPress. If you ever want to consider a @cbox installation for your courses, please let me know
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mkgold/
 Alec Ross (@AlecJRoss)8/26/13 6:36 AM If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar Howe |
wow
Deb Mills-Scofield (@bluelobsternets)8/26/13 6:40 AM
RT @skap5: Grant me the wisdom to greet both failure and victory as imposters.
 Bruce Nussbaum (@brucenussbaum)8/26/13 6:43 AM The Decline of E-Empires, via @nytimes. Can Microsoft rise again? Unlikely. Will Apple fall? Likely.nyti.ms/15nVj6h |
How could Microsoft have been so blind? Here’s where Ibn Khaldun comes in. He was a 14th-century Islamic philosopher who basically invented what we would now call the social sciences. And one insight he had, based on the history of his native North Africa, was that there was a rhythm to the rise and fall of dynasties.
Is there a policy moral here? Let me make at least a negative case: Even though Microsoft did not, in fact, end up taking over the world, those antitrust concerns weren’t misplaced. Microsoft was a monopolist, it did extract a lot of monopoly rents, and it did inhibit innovation. Creative destruction means that monopolies aren’t forever, but it doesn’t mean that they’re harmless while they last. This was true for Microsoft yesterday; it may be true for Apple, or Google, or someone not yet on our radar, tomorrow.
Greg Satell (@Digitaltonto)8/26/13 6:44 AM
A decade later, Tesla now officially a threat to the auto industryzite.to/1diNyo1 via @Zite
funny, electric car company Tesla has been building its business for a decade now, but it’s just in recent months that the auto industry seems to be taking Tesla’s innovations as an actual threat to their businesses. That’s because it’s only been in 2013 that Tesla has shown how it can make a small profit and use its popular electric car to compete with competitors in the auto biz. But reacting to a threat when it’s finally arrived, versus skating to where the puck is going isn’t necessarily the best way to run a business. The tech industry is littered with late-movers like Blockbuster or Kodak
Sunday, August 25, 2013
howard rheingold
WordPress version of my syllabus for Stanford course on social media issues: http://socialmediaissues.net/
social drones
http://www.socialdrones.org/
via http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/indian-startup-uses-drones-to-drop-aid-in-flood-ravaged-areas/
and quite resonating with:
Which is why we see so much hype about cyber war—it’s because some people that seem to be in the authority about war start talking about technology as if they understand it. Such people are often talking about cyber war and not one of them, not a single one, is talking about cyber peace-building, or anything related to peace-building.
via Cypherpunks
via http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/indian-startup-uses-drones-to-drop-aid-in-flood-ravaged-areas/
and quite resonating with:
Which is why we see so much hype about cyber war—it’s because some people that seem to be in the authority about war start talking about technology as if they understand it. Such people are often talking about cyber war and not one of them, not a single one, is talking about cyber peace-building, or anything related to peace-building.
via Cypherpunks
Saturday, August 24, 2013
homeschool/unschool conference
http://www.homeschoolconference.com/
sessions i (will) attended by:
http://redefineschool.com/632/clark-aldrich/
http://redefineschool.com/632/lainie-and-miro-liberti/
http://redefineschool.com/632/jerry-mintz-aero/
http://redefineschool.com/632/kyung-ae-oh/
http://redefineschool.com/632/washor-mojkowski-leaving/
http://redefineschool.com/632/lisa-nalbone/
http://redefineschool.com/632/yale-wishnick/
http://redefineschool.com/632/class-dismissed/
http://redefineschool.com/632/peter-gray/
sessions i (will) attended by:
http://redefineschool.com/632/clark-aldrich/
http://redefineschool.com/632/lainie-and-miro-liberti/
http://redefineschool.com/632/jerry-mintz-aero/
http://redefineschool.com/632/kyung-ae-oh/
http://redefineschool.com/632/washor-mojkowski-leaving/
http://redefineschool.com/632/lisa-nalbone/
http://redefineschool.com/632/yale-wishnick/
http://redefineschool.com/632/class-dismissed/
http://redefineschool.com/632/peter-gray/
tweets - unleashing management ness
 Deb Mills-Scofield (@dscofield)8/23/13 7:40 AM RT @SBLeaders: Why Encouragement Fails – What to Do About It dlvr.it/3rdy5D via@Leadershipfreak |
When I asked, “How can I encourage you?” I affirmed my own ignorance and his individuality.
 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)8/23/13 7:40 AM Former CIA agent @barryeisler: "David Miranda and the Preclusion of Privacy"barryeisler.blogspot.com.br/ |
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication
familiar... no?
To achieve the ability to monitor all human communication, broadly speaking the National Surveillance State must do two things: first, button up the primary means of human communication -- today meaning the Internet, telephone, and snail mail; second, clamp down on backup systems, meaning face-to-face communication, which is, after all, all that's left to the population when everything else has been bugged.
The authorities knew there were copies, so destroying the information itself wasn't the point of the exercise. The point was to make the Guardian spend time and energy developing suboptimal backup options -- that is, to make journalism harder, slower, and less secure.
familiar as well.. and noteworthy
Whether they've miscalculated depends on how well they've gauged the passivity of the public.
on feeding pluralistic ignorance
 Amy Kirschner (@amykirschner)8/23/13 3:03 PM "@Etsy on Code Deployment, Monitoring and Failure Procedures" ow.ly/odCNn@tomwiththeweather |
Because we work in such small changes, we believe that it gets rid of the need for having a large formal QA process
So when that happened we immediately stopped people from pushing code. It took us about a minute to determine that that was the problem because in the logs there were a lot of errors and they had those numbers. And if you've seen that number before, you would know that number. You know the bad feelings that come with seeing that number.
Students Rebuild (@studentsrebuild)8/23/13 11:55 AM
#Mission31 is @FCousteau's endeavor to live underwater for 31 days. @weatherchannel to broadcast to classrooms: ow.ly/odeQq
Behance Portfolio Reviews bring creatives together in cities around the world. Be a part of it all:http://t.co/jK2uJgiRjb
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Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Behance/
Friday, August 23, 2013
tweets - schank -ai, hood, ethan z, & 10,000
Roger Schank (@rogerschank)8/23/13 6:48 AM
a simulated converstion with the best doctors; our latest AI attempt; try the demomedicalextra.socraticarts.com/
 Neighborhood Centers (@NeighborhoodCtr)8/23/13 6:51 AM We'll be on @GreatDayHouston this morning from 9-10 a.m. discussing #HTownStories, our powerful new film. Stay tuned, #Houston!
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jane mcgonigal - play hard
 Jane McGonigal (@avantgame)8/23/13 6:48 AM The full text of my @MiamiUniversity convocation speech, with game instructions! "The Hard Part is the Fun Part" wp.me/p1fOsd-7Z |
Good morning! And congratulations. You’ve put in a lot of hard work to get here today, and your reward is that from now on, you get to choose your own adventures. This is a wonderful power to have. You are now officially in charge of your own destiny. And you’ve earned it. So please, have fun with it. Enjoy everything. Even the hard parts! In fact, especially the hard parts. If there’s anything I’ve learned as a game designer, it’s that the hard part is the fun part. We need a good challenge to have fun, to feel alive, to unleash our strengths, to turn strangers into teammates and allies. This is why we play games – sports, videogames, all games. We play them because nothing makes us happier or stronger than tackling a tough challenge that we choose for ourselves.
Games remind us that we actually have more fun when things are more difficult.
Good games should also bring out our best qualities. Some of the qualities I particularly like to bring out in players of my games are courage, creativity, and empathy – the ability to imagine what someone else is going through.
Other friends suggested more competitive games. We could find out who among you can fly your plane the highest, or the furthest. But honestly, that’s just not my idea of what makes an awesome game. With a game like that, we would have 1 winner and 3999 losers. That’s just lazy game design. The last thing I want to do today is turn 3999 of you into losers. I’m not going to do that. It’s much harder for a game designer – but more satisfying, I think – to design a game where it’s possible for everyone to win. Or even better, to not be sure who won, so you have to keep playing.
An infinite game has no fixed rules or boundaries. In an infinite game you play with the boundaries and the purpose is to continue the game.
Finite players are serious; infinite gamers are playful.”
Now if for some reason you would prefer not to play today, that’s okay. Because play should be voluntary, so if for any reason you are not feeling inspired to join us in this game, I want to encourage you to consider participating in a different way. It would be great to get some photos or videos of whatever happens. So if you decide to sit the game out, perhaps you would helps us all out by pulling out your phone and getting some photos or video of all the airplanes flying!
voluntary..
matters...
huge...
So while we are all in the mindset of infinite play, let me end by sharing with you a few more words Professor James Carse, some advice which I’m sure he would have written on his paper airplane if he were here today. This is his advice for how to play the game of life. He wrote:
“You can do what you do seriously, because you must do it, because you must survive to the end, and you are afraid of dying or failing or other consequences. Or, you can do everything you do playfully, always knowing you have a choice, having no need to survive the way you are, allowing every element of the play to transform you, taking pleasure in every surprise you meet. Those are the differences between finite and infinite players.”
class dismissed - homeschool conference
http://www.homeschoolconference.com/forum/topics/class-dismissed-the-world-s-1st-feature-length-documentary-about
this session is saturday
Saturday 8/24th at 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific. The session URL can be found on
the schedule page.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
gabor mate - new site & tedx
the addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours
new site: http://drgabormate.com/
your song
http://thegodmolecule.tumblr.com/post/48146343226/here-is-a-tribe-in-africa-where-the-birth-date-of
In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them.
The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.
In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them.
The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.
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