thoughtfulness

is your thoughtfulness available for others to easily find and consider? do you know how to find other people's thoughtfulness and to know what thoughtfulness looks like?

further info about elizabeth campbell from WETA

further info about elizabeth campbell.

in the future your worth as a person

in the future your worth as a person will be determined more and more by the quality and quantity of your ideas and in which public venues you choose to express them. are blogs public venues? well, are you a member of the public?

elizabeth campbell - founder of WETA

what lessons can we learn from those who came before us?

what happens when you elect a bodybuilder governor

"I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man
 and a woman."

 - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.  The comment made
   Schwarzenegger a runner-up for the Plain English Campaign's 2003
   'Foot in Mouth' award for the most baffling statement by a public
   figure.

   [http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/pressrelease.html#Anchor-Donal-1943]

Street-Level Youth Media retrospective

If you live in Chicago (or surrounding areas), the year-long retrospective of Street-Level Youth Media creative work at The Field Museum is something not to be missed.

Ramesh Srinivasan

Ramesh Srinivasan knows a thing or two.

the advocates of academic measurement

sometimes i feel the advocates of the measurement of academic progress are both qualitatively and quantitatively misguided, but i don't know of a way to measure how far wrong they are.

www as part of email addresses

when the web was young, i saw several people using www as part of their email address -- and cringed. this continues to happen today and causes unnecessary confusion by internet newbies (often immigrants populations) to the difference between an email address and a web site address. a modest proposal -- please leave out any www parts of your email address, especially prior to the at-sign.

learning a person's credentials in a short amount of time

the web allows you to learn a person's credentials in a short amount of time.

linux public broadcasting network

linux public broadcasting network.

when writing email, providing context always helps

(depending on the context, of course.)

how you get to be a musician

"Throw your hat on the road, lean your ass against a post and start
 practising.  When somebody drops a coin in the hat, you're a
 musician."

 - Woody Guthrie, on being asked how you get to be a musician.

the institute for interactive journalism

is the place to stay abreast of the best in interactive journalism.

being better than yourself

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner

narrated multimedia using microsoft producer

microsoft producer is very useful for creating rich-media instructional material as well as for rich-media nonprofit advocacy on the web. you need a windows computer to view microsoft producer files. (as of january, 2004, that is. this might change in the future.)

figuring out will shortz's enigmatology degree

"Will Shortz is the only person in the world to hold a college degree in Enigmatology, the study of puzzles, which he earned from Indiana University in 1974.

Born in 1952 and raised on an Arabian horse farm in Indiana, Will now lives near New York City in a Tudor-style house filled with books and Arts and Crafts furniture. When he's not at work, he enjoys bicycling, movies, reading, travel, and collecting antique puzzle books and magazines."

playing scrabble online

playing the game of scrabble online might be a good way to get more seniors involved with computers.

unorthodox MIT professor dies at 105

we're all going to miss arthur von hippel.

"Eric von Hippel, who is now a professor of innovation at MIT, said his father's students appreciated his teaching style.

'They thought he was so cool. Instead of a formal exam he would invite them in for a chat with apple pie, ice cream and tea -- and at the end he would give them a grade' he said."

school of rock(y) road?

interactive cinema group weblog

interactive cinema group weblog.