Some People Just Like to Build Things
October 19, 2010
Surprisingly perhaps, given my interest in social media, I haven’t seen The Social Network yet, though I do know that much disdain is being expressed in many places for the main character. But here, in a short video clip, Zukerberg makes a really excellent point about two different (and sometimes warring) kinds of creativity:
And, Speaking of Education …
October 18, 2010
A Harvard Law School professor argues that remix technology, conventions, and ethics should be taught in school. For one who has read a lot of medieval treatises, as I did in a former life, such new procedures irresistibly recall the way writers quoted “from authority” — i.e., from the ancient and patristic authors — with varying degrees of attribution, paraphrase, and reframing. In fact, many such works were simply centones, potpourris of passages from older authors, often combined to creative and revelatory effect. The same can be true of remix, when done with skill and originality.
Sir Ken Robinson’s Ideas on Education Presented Graphically
October 16, 2010
The Limitations of Statistics
October 15, 2010
Always Free
October 13, 2010
I heard her live many times, and of course there were the recordings. But I’m not sure I ever heard anything more remarkably consistent than this recording of a live performance during a 1965 Australian tour.
O bell’ alma
October 11, 2010
A U.S. National Digital Library
October 10, 2010
Thomas Jefferson's library for the University of Virginia
A proposal. I hope it would include musical scores. (And I must say I’m a little puzzled by the implication that this would involve some vast, expensive building. Why?)
Whole Music
October 9, 2010
An enlightening e-mail interview with Alex Ross about his new book.
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