Stepping Stones

I have finally found a straightforward explanation for web 2.0 that I can use with my colleagues and friends. My discovery comes from gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”. I tried explaining the cartoon drawing to a few friends and I discovered that I need to fine tune (practice) my delivery somewhat. [...]

What a fine time I am having. I have scanned all my pictures from my 1967 Basketball Year Book album put together by my mother. This was the year we won the first ever Canadian National Championship hosted by Luther College in Regina Saskatchewan. You can see the full picture album on my flickr [...]

I can not get enough of Stephen Downes. Here is his latest slideshare titled Applications of Social and Collaborative Technologies in Education.

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I stumbled upon this video of Pink Floyd reading the Abject Learning - Brian Lamb blog. The video brought back a flood of very nostalgic and great feelings I have about music of the 60’s and 70’s. The quality is a bit on the rough side but you can see just what genius is at [...]

I am unapologetically a dyed in the wool, heat seeking, nirvana searcher. Evelyn Rodriguez at her Crossroads Dispatches blog feeds me interesting and inspiring posts about her life journey. A few days ago, I read “enlightenment, not just for prisoners and reggae musicians anymore”. Its a remix of her original post on this topic, written [...]

The post below is an excerpt from a longer post about Dr. Randy Pausch and his “Last Lecture” presentation. I initially was attracted to the picture and quote by Martha Graham and then I went to read the whole post which featured “The Last Lecture”. I was very moved by the video’s and wanted [...]

Kathy Sierra in her blog Creating Passionate Users,  has written a long but very insightful post on the workings of the brain and how individuals are affected by people who are very angry or happy. It’s a facinating read on neuroscience research and its helping me see why its important to be careful who I [...]

I always liked this song and dance tune and it came up in a conversation only yesterday. It’s the Music Man and it’s even better than I remember.

February 11, 2008

Dave Pollard’s writing is a treasure trove of insight, pointed commentary on business, organizational development and environmental guides. His pondering on what commonalities of love that he looks for in his collaborations, partners and business enterprises is a [...]

danah boyd is a PhD student in the School of Information at Berkeley and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She writes and researches extensively about youth culture, social media, Friendster, MySpace, Facebook etc.
This interview was given for the Discover magazine and includes reference to much of her research [...]

Can she rock or what!