Steve Jobs Reshaped Industries
By By DAVID POGUE
Published: August 25, 2011
It’s hard to imagine that we’ll ever see another 15 years of blockbuster, culture-changing hits like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad — from Apple or anyone else. And that’s really, really sad.
How Steve Jobs Changed The Way We Listen
by Bob Boilen NPR
"Steve Jobs and Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, but they sure made it work."
I believe in lingering – long conversational digressions, and slow time spent hammocked on the deck. I believe in seed-time, the gradual germination of plants, personalities, ideas. I believe in starting more projects than I can finish, in the promise of unfinished business. Same goes for books. I believe in listening to the sound between the words, enjoying the view between the lines on the page. I believe in trees and dirt, and in waiting for leaves to decompose into mulch, for finches to return in spring. I believe that every word counts, makes a difference. I believe in chewing slowly, in being the last person to leave the table.
I believe that learning requires growth and change, and because most people have trouble with change, they also have trouble learning. I believe the key to learning is to let go and let be. Habitat is more important than habit. Roots go down whether we want them to or not. Discipline precedes structure but control’s a myth. I believe the good stuff is a paradox - that all of our days are the same length, but the more you do the longer they last. I believe that my war had better music than yours, that college is only one way to get an education, that learning is more about doing than listening. I believe that most people have to find things out for themselves, learn to read their own maps.
I believe that God is everywhere, but really favors old people and children.
I believe that faith is the place beyond belief, just the other side of a mountain meadow in southwestern Colorado. I believe that most of what you really need starts with “B” – books, Blues, boots, beans, bread, beer, brats and Bozeman, the coolest place west of Athens. I believe that two wheels are better than four, and that feet are better than wheels. I believe that life is best lived at a walking pace, that it’s hard to know when to stop, and that you’ll never know when you’ve reached your last line. Like Kurt said, “So it goes.”
I still believe in heroes - Bob and John and Ed and Henry and Walt, Linda, our parents and all our kids. Like them, my strengths embody my weaknesses. I am patient and I procrastinate. I believe in the Yin and Yang, opposites that complement and complete. And I believe my job here is about sharing time and place and stories with cool people. And about believing that it’s the sharing that makes the difference, that when we share time and stories we learn to care about each other and our place. I believe that place is as important as poetry, that poems root us to our place. I believe my work is as much about launching lives as it is about teaching literature, about charting trajectories, and watching where you’ll land. This I believe.
– D. Lackey 5/2007
Inspired by This I believe . . .
More about Bob Dylan.
]]>Poetry Everywhere Videos including Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost and The Lanyard by Billy Collins
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Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/science/02see.html
By STEVE LOHR
Published: January 1, 2011
Computerized surveillance systems can protect hospital patients, watch
for criminals — or invade your privacy.
Global Entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02fob-consumed-t.html
By ROB WALKER
Published: December 30, 2010
How online geo-tools and their tweakers make the surveillance state fun.
Rewired
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02FOB-medium-t.html
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: December 30, 2010
The ideological implications of our new fiber-optic infrastructure.
The Tea Maker by Yoko Ono
The Inspiration - NYTimes.com by Ray Davies
LENNONYC - PBS American Masters
PBS Arts : Remembering Lennon: The Vigil for John Lennon
More here
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Despite the historic upheaval blowin’ in the wind, Bob Dylan didn’t overdo the political overtones during a sold-out concert Tuesday evening at E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron. Maybe because the polls were still open out West? Still, it was surely no coincidence that Mr. Voice of a Generation launched into an ominous “Masters of War” in the middle of the Election Day show. Bob Dylan mixes crowd-pleasers with subtle political commentary during Election Day show.
Setlist from BobDylan.com and another review of Tuesday night's show.
My short Ticketmaster review - http://bit.ly/bmTF4P
More Bob Dylan links
]]>This map is drawn from cases documented by ALA and the Kids' Right to Read Project, a collaboration of the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.
]]>Gardner is known for his theory of Multiple Intelligences that describes nine different ways individuals demonstrate intelligence:
VERBAL/LINGUISTIC - learning through the spoken and written word. This intelligence was always valued in the traditional classroom and in traditional assessments of intelligence and achievement.
MATHEMATICAL/LOGICAL - learning through reasoning and problem solving. Also highly valued in the traditional classroom, where students were asked to adapt to logically sequenced delivery of instruction.
BODILY/KINESTHETIC - learning through interaction with one's environment. This intelligence is not the domain of "overly active" learners. It promotes understanding through concrete experience.
MUSICAL/RHYTHMIC - learning through patterns, rhythms and music. This includes not only auditory learning, but the identification of patterns through all the senses.
INTRAPERSONAL - learning through feelings, values and attitudes. This is a decidedly affective component of learning through which students place value on what they learn and take ownership for their learning.
INTERPERSONAL - learning through interaction with others. Not the domain of children who are simply "talkative" or "overly social." This intelligence promotes collaboration and working cooperatively with others.
NATURALIST - learning through classification, categories and hierarchies. The naturalist intelligence picks up on subtle differences in meaning. It is not simply the study of nature; it can be used in all areas of study..
EXISTENTIAL - learning by seeing the "big picture": "Why are we here?" "What is my role in the world?" "What is my place in my family, school and community?" This intelligence seeks connections to real world understandings and applications of new learning.
From Multiple Intelligences Overview by Walter McKenzie
See also: Multiple Intelligences: A Theory for Everyone Anne Guignon, Education World, 1998.
From chapter four: The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiring new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes even epiphanies. And the very existence of the attentive, critical reader provides the spur for the writer’s work. It gives the author the confidence to explore new forms of expression, to blaze difficult and demanding paths of thought, to venture into uncharted and sometimes hazardous territory. “All great men have written proudly, nor cared to explain,” said Emerson. “They knew that the intelligent reader would come at last, and would thank them.”
On NPR 'The Shallows': This Is Your Brain Online
Book Review - Cognitive Surplus - By Clay Shirky - NYTimes.com
The time we might free up by ditching TV is Shirky’s “cognitive surplus” — an ocean of hours that society could contribute to endeavors far more useful and fun than television. With the help of a researcher at I.B.M., Shirky calculated the total amount of time that people have spent creating one such project, Wikipedia. The collectively edited online encyclopedia is the product of about 100 million hours of human thought, Shirky found. In other words, in the time we spend watching TV, we could create 2,000 Wikipedia-size projects — and that’s just in America, and in just one year.
Book Review - Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg - The Letters - NYTimes.com
“Tonight while walking on the waterfront in the angelic streets I suddenly wanted to tell you how wonderful I think you are,” Jack Kerouac began a typical letter to his friend Allen Ginsberg in 1950. “God’s angels are ravishing and fooling me. I saw a whore and an old man in a lunch cart, and God — their faces! I wondered what God was up to.” God’s purpose would remain opaque to Kerouac — try as he might to impart some glimpse of it in his work — and a decaade later he was pretty much a burnt-out case. Poring over his old correspondence with Ginsberg and others in 1961, he sadly wondered at “the enthusiasms of younger men.” “Someday ‘The Letters of Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac’ will make America cry,” he wrote.
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