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April 10, 2011
Once or twice a week, I spend early mornings in our natural-food-and-free-wireless coffee shop in town working on project planning and correspondence. Over the months, I've gotten to know a few regulars -- folks who work nearby, retired professors, college students -- and listened to bits of stories about their lives and what's important to them.
November 30, 2010
I know the pendulum spirals between "information wants to be free" and "information want to be expensive" and I think we come out at a more expansive level most of the time. It's just that the exclusionary approach makes me nervous.
October 17, 2010
This afternoon, the wind whipped the leaves into wispy funnels that danced out around the woodpile and up the back hill, inviting us to come out.
August 30, 2010
The process of curation — sifting through the abundance of knowledge about a topic and making decisions about what is most meaningful — is rapidly becoming a core skill, whether one is in Academia or not.
August 28, 2010
Some define the Web as "www" and "http." I think the Web is more like the noosphere that Teilhard de Chardin envisioned 50 years ago: a place where our collective knowledge and insight (and, I'd add, natural systems captured through sensors) will live organically all around us.
Federal "blueprint" to reduce college costs by rewarding transparency and punishing extravagance in higher education - http://t.co/avm8LetJ Peter Benson: We want our kids to experience joy, to be connected and engage, to be happy. To thrive. - http://t.co/M2pBAurX David Budbill on the Writer's Almanac: "Winter is the best time / to find out who you are." - http://t.co/cWq2dWyV
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