Viral Video

Insider Higher Ed has an interesting piece on a post by an anthropology professor at Kansas State.
See the article here.
See the video here.
Worth your time.

Blast from the past

Found the blog of a good high school friend…
She seems to have regressed to old english … but otherwise, she is dabbling with lots of Web 2.0 tools for her teaching.

Friedman, markets, education

Dr. Milton Friedman addressed ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) last month.  CSPAN saw fit to air his remarks which I saw on cable yesterday.
Dr. Friedman mentioned how important it was for citizens in a democracy to possess a basic functional literacy about how their government worked, the principles upon which the government was founded, and [...]

Technology: Future involves sausage making

Computerworld has done analysis on future of jobs in IT.  Here is a telling comment:
In 2010, there will be a whole lot more information floating around. Customers and regulators will expect IT to know what is known, protect what is private and generate bordering-on-clairvoyant levels of service. The whole issue of IT and the law [...]

Worthy of investigation

Time Magazine has a book review of , The Language of God by Francis Collins.  The reviewer notes how Collins maps his arguments for a middle ground between atheists and neo-christian conservatives on the issue of evolution.
I think Collins’ approach is a way to reasonably engage in debate on the science and tech issues which [...]

Crowdsourcing — Creating Minute workers in cyberspace

We are all going to be minute workers — some of us may be identified as such already.  Wired has a piece entitled Crowdsourcing describing how this new market for labor will work.  Another piece, entitled 5 rules for the new workforce describes the parameters within which this labor market functions.  Wired then gives you a [...]

Friedman, Green, Agriculture, Oil

Yes - I can tie all 4 together.  Friedman's column today says the nation who gets to the green technologies first - wins rights to this century.  A friend of mine who helps start-ups succeed told me yesterday that for every $1 in federal subsidies for corn grown to support ethanol production, there are $11 [...]

New Economy: Local jobs, global markets

Brother Blankenhorn posts a piece on a South African Linuxe entrepreneur talking about Open Source and how the nature of that model supports creation of local jobs.
Amen.  Get an education, find a nice place to raise a family, any where, plug in, and go to work.  All you need besides broadband is the willingness to [...]

New Economy

Here, in a concise nutshell found in Tom Friedman's column today, is how the economy will work this century:
Mr. Raju said: "We told ourselves: if business process outsourcing can be done from cities in India to support cities in the developed world, why can't it be done by villages in India to support cities in [...]

Fundamentals

To compete in this new economy, you must continually learn by:

Gathering information (Aggregate)
Process information (analyze/synthesize)
Apply information in context (knowledge)
repeat

Just a note to myself as I ponder my navel this am