February 2012
4 posts
“Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people...”
– Mother Jones
“My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music...”
– Philip Glass’s Life as an East Village
“Productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces...”
– Seymour Sarason; And What Do YOU Mean by Learning?
January 2012
11 posts
“For the first time in history, colleges and universities fully control the means...”
– Thinking About Tomorrow
“I think you work out something. I wouldn’t call them ideas. I think ideas are...”
– Leonard Cohen
“There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and...”
– Dickens and Dostoevsky
“Frankly, if people in Romania can download my books and enjoy them, more power...”
“I don’t think you’re really through…when you’re learning about something and...”
– Louis CK on Learning
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“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth....”
– Do We Need New Traits to Live Within Limits?
“Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the...”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success
“Now that it is 70 years since Joyce’s death, the copyright on his work expires....”
– The Irish Times
“To move not like a train on its tracks but like fog through the city.”
– Geoff Manaugh (via robertogreco)
December 2011
1 post
“I’ve learned that the smartest people in the room, the ones who know the...”
– Would You Pay $50 For Another Season Of ‘Community’?
November 2011
4 posts
“So for those of you doubtful that “modern slavery” really is an issue for the...”
– The Face of Modern Slavery - NYTimes.com
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“I firmly believe that one of the pressing unsolved technological problems of the...”
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October 2011
2 posts
“The world has changed. You have to educate young people today based on...”
– The Globe and Mail
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“My favorite books on my shelf are the ones that I can’t read, like Finnegans...”
– The Believer - Interview with Kenny Goldsmith (via Tim Carmody)
September 2011
7 posts
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“Princeton University will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of...”
– Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals - unless waiver granted
WatchGrassroots creativity and invention around the world.
“If mainstream folk used Delicious and understood what they’re doing when using...”
– Beating the drum for Delicious « Jon Udell
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Poverty USA
“The numbers are nauseating. According to the just released new Census Bureau data , based on 2010 data:
22 percent of American children live in poverty
39 percent of black children live in poverty
35 percent of Hispanic children live in poverty
The federal government set the poverty level in 2010 for a family of four living with an income of no more than $22,314 or a single person...
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July 2011
3 posts
Bankys on Modern Art
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
~ Banksy
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“Named for Paul Otlet — a librarian and visionary who popularized the 3x5 index...”
Watch“The whole thing is moving from passive consumption to active creation, and if you build a base on that you’re going to win….” - Roger McNamee
June 2011
10 posts
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“One million e-books in just 5 months is a testament to the incredible popularity...”
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Professorial Library Hack
“At MIT, his office in Building 20 was crammed with books, most overdue from the college library. Dr. Lettvin claimed he did not return them because the library would send him the students who wanted those books, and he would interview them as potential assistants.”
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“Not content to let Apple and Google continue to sort out their location tracking...”
– Wired
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It's Not About You
“No one would design a system of extreme supervision to prepare people for a decade of extreme openness. But this is exactly what has emerged in modern America.” - David Brooks
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Apple and Google
“This is a fundamentally different vision for the coming decade than Google’s. In both cases, your data is in the cloud, and you can access it from anywhere with a network connection. But Google’s vision is about software you run in a web browser. Apple’s is about native apps you run on devices. Apple is as committed to native apps — on the desktop, tablet, and handheld — as it has ever...
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“When Did Providing Books to Poor Children Become a Waste of Federal Resources?”
– Ron Fairchild
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This Guy Has My MacBook
“On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartment in Oakland, CA. I reported the crime to the police and even told them where it was, but they can’t help me due to lack of resources. I’m currently in the process of contacting the mayor’s office. Meanwhile, I’m using the awesome app, Hidden, to capture these photos of this guy who has my MacBook.”
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The future of the library
“Librarians that are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario.”
May 2011
13 posts
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A Country Without Libraries by Charles Simic
“The greatest nation on earth,” as we still call ourselves, no longer has the political will to arrest its visible and precipitous decline and save the institutions on which the workings of our democracy depend.
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The One-Percenters
“The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent.
“Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent.”
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“I’m rigid about moving “super-TODOs” from...”
– How does a geek hack GTD? | 43 Folders
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The Battle of Internets is About to Begin
“I expect that the Battle of Internets is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of an Uncensored civilization! Upon it depends our own free life, and the long continuity of our sites and our trackers. The whole fury and might of the enemy will very soon be turned on us.”
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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in...”
– Gustave Flaubert
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UK research and education is to benefit from a... →
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I...”
– C.S. Lewis