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What do conferences of people who wear stuffed animal costume for sporting events and people who make balloon animals have in common? They know what they do for a living. What do TED watching folks do for a living? Try to make change. Of some kind. Of ideas. Old ones to new ones.

Smash some old ideas. In entertainment, marketing, business, design and even teaching!

“I want to argue that we are living through and are right now at the key moment of a change in the way that ideas are created and spread and implemented.”

What does this have to do with teaching? I’m not sure because for the most part many schools are too over their heads with this what not and that what not to even think about entertaining old ideas let alone new ones. Regardless, we hope.

According to Godin, we started with the factory idea. Basically build a good factory line and churn, churn, churn. I think most school systems still follow this model. The Henry Ford model of Education. What better way to ensure cheap labor than by following the factory/industry model of education.

That idea was followed by the TV one. Blanket the airwaves with ads and you rule. Acceptable spamming. Hypnotize.

Godin believes that the new idea of making meaningful change is not by using power or money but by leading tribes. The idea of tribes. Strikingly reminds me of Clay Shirky’s talk…

“There is an awareness that the internet is not a decoration on contemporary society but a challenge to it…” -Clay Shirky

“We’re living through, in our historical generation, the largest increase in human expressive capability in history.” -Clay Shirky

Interesting questions on how different/similar is this media revolution that we’re all currently a living, acting part of compared to the previous media revolutions of the printing press, the telephone/telegraph, recorded media of all types and finally broadcast.

Godin speaks of ideas (factory, TV, tribes) and Shirky speaks of media revolutions. In the end, same good message. The digital revolution is not about hardware and software, it’s about social ideas and media revolutions and understanding their implication in time to affect meaningful change.

I haven’t seen Star Trek yet but definitely want to go see it so much more now after reading this piece…I didn’t realize how much Flash/Actionscript was involved in this film…

Double-Taker (Snout), Interactive Robot from Golan Levin on Vimeo.

for a while there i was feeling that maybe i was getting a bit too old for loud sounds but then bands like fugazi come by to remind that loud can be beautiful…oh so beautiful…

Facebook | Harvard Gazette: Academic turns city into a social experiment

saturday in march

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enjoying a beautiful spring day in march…

Not sure what to think of the twitter project. Tinkered with it today. I’ve enjoyed using facebook but not sure if I’ll be tweeting much for now. We’ll see…

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