(2005-03-20) Pcforum Open

Got to PcForum after the annoyances of America West... wow everything smells great at the resort: flowers, eucalyptus, burning wood for barbecues...

• though Esther's photo of the cool water fountain reminded me of Phoenix's wastage of Clean Water.

Howard Gardner

• Good Work Project with the Flow guy (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

• Trust Ee-s

  • George Kennan just died, he probably was one

  • surveys now pick: Alan Greenspan; Oprah Winfrey; Jon Stewart

Andy Stern (SEIU union guy):

• Labor Union-s were a big anti-PoverTy program

• Diana Farrell of Mc Kinsey Global Institute has a plan: sounds like taxing Off Shoring ("share of the gains") to cover workers who lose jobs

• Public Schools nightmare also holds back the poor

  • uh, does the Teachers Union help?

Jerry Yang of Yahoo:

• announced today they're buying FlickR

• totally dodged on China Censorship issue, though making reasonable points on creating better discourse at university there...

Comments from floor:

• Mitch Kapor: 80-hr-weeks keep parents from doing their job

• Bob Frankston: schools just train instead of educate, so need to think much bigger than just "do better at what they've been doing"