Someone was writing about the DIKW model, and I responded with the Brain Fart-s Of The Day: (more)

The potential of people to change their position in the Wealth Distribution curve over time. This is a good thing, because it means your financial future isn't driven by your past. (Of course, you could personally get Downward Mobility instead of Upward Mobility.) (more)

Good Jason Cohen piece on learning Writing by copying. *As a culture, at least in America, we cherish creativity, we reward uniqueness. We’re obsessed with “innovation.” We’re trained that copying is evil. (more)

Justin Reich has studied a random sample of Public School Wiki-s (PBworks.com (PbWorks) helped us (for free) get access to all 179,851 publicly-viewable, education-related wikis hosted on PBWorks from the creation of the company in 2005 through August of 2008 (this is 70% of all ed wikis, another 30% were private). These wikis are used in every grade level from Pre-K through Grad school, in every subject area, in dozens of countries around the world. Then they removed non-US-K-12 cases from their sample.)... and made 2 discoveries (more)

OffShoring (Global Maldistribution of Income) --2004/01/30 02:36 GMT
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the group of people who are neither rich nor poor (more)

The Basic School Skills flavor of Social Science: history, geography, CurrentEvents, psychology, economics, etc.

Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (more)

somewhat different from Income Inequality (more)

WiFi run by a Local Government to provide cheap/free service everywhere to everyone. (more)

Matt Welch on WebLog variety vs Politically Correct Alternative Newspaper Publishing. "And if there's anything we all agree on," Richard Karpel said with a smile, "it's that we're antichurch."... The original alternative papers were not at all this politically monochromatic, despite entering the world at a time when Lenny Bruce was being prosecuted for obscenity, Tom Dooley was proselytizing for American intervention in Vietnam, and Republicans ruled the nation's editorial pages... And these Amateur-s, especially the ones focusing on news and current events, are doing some fascinating things. Many are connecting intimately with readers in a way reminiscent of old-style metro columnists or the liveliest of the New Journalists. Others are staking the narrowest of editorial claims as their own - appellate court rulings, new media proliferation in Tehran, the intersection of Hip-Hop and Libertarian-ism - and covering them like no one else.

CoOp that founded the Minnesota New Country School. (more)

Thomas De Zengotita suggests (not online yet) a Progressive Talk Show (more)

Mark Bernstein pointed to a Jeff Noon manifesto (Jan'01) for the Post Future Novel. By dismissing the textual adventures of James Joyce, British writers stayed true to the old pleasures of straightforward Story Telling. This leads to our current situation, where the vast majority of novelists are still intent on drawing a single narrative thread through a complex world. Yet we live daily in a web of connections, all of us becoming adept at riding the multiple layers of information. This is the fluid society. Tracing pathways through this intricate landscape needs a different kind of narrative art. It is in this spirit of adventure that I envisage the post-future novel... House, Hip-Hop and garage recordings contain elements of remixing, scratching and sampling. We can also look at the branching Narrative-s of Computer Game-s, at the strange connections that HyperText links reveal on the internet, at the games played with image and text in a Graphic Novel. All of these are fluid mediums, for a fluid society... It will be Raymond Chandler writing Ulysses, James Joyce writing The Big Sleep. It will move away from lazy cynicism and nihilism. Post-futurism reveres the narrative imagination.

Mark Goldblatt claims he's being "whiteballed" for writing a novel (AfricaSpeaks) satirizing African American-s. For, to return to my original point about the effect of Sat Ire, no one nowadays needs to be satirized more than African Americans. If not for the French - who've retired all such trophies - African Americans would currently rank as the most hypocritical, most paranoid, most pretentious group of people on the planet... African-American political leaders are, nowadays, with rare exceptions, a ragtag crew of racial arsonists, conspiracy mongers and corporate shakedown artists. Their intellectual leaders are, with rare exceptions, purveyors of absurd mythologies of perpetual victimization - and the exceptions, in this case, are without exception shunned by their own communities... And I tried to "keep it real" - in the sense that many of the more grotesque passages are taken directly from conversations I overheard on the streets, or quotes from Hip-Hop magazines, or rants on PublicAccess television. (Racism? Politically Correct)

There's been lots of consolidation in Mass Media/Old Media/MSM. (more)

Venkatesh Rao linkblogs Gregory Rader on "the" FourEconomies: Transaction Economy, Gift Economy, Attention Economy, Relationship Economy. Clearly we need a better way to frame these concepts. What is alternative currency? What is a gift economy? What is the attention economy? How can we systematically explain the economic impact of user-generated content or peer-to-peer exchange? The terms, ‘user generated’ and ‘peer-to-peer’ might as well be defined as ‘not professional’ and ‘not corporate’, respectively. (more)

blogger on Network Economy, etc. (more)

E Campaign tool? (more)

Email List broadcasting essays of Venkatesh Rao. (more)