Limited Liability Corporation (more)

Brain Fart Of The Day... (more)

Robert Paterson suggests getting a CoWorking space membership for your kids, so they can have some interaction with Free Agent-s. Good Raising Reality Hackers idea.

Peg Tyre on the "WritingRevolution" (Educating Kids). (There's a whole collection of response pieces.) (more)

A Learning Theory. (more)

ongoing Big Project to escape the Earth (more)

Bo Adams on trying to make Schooling more like the Real World. (more)

disgusting non-food (more)

Embedded Hardware/Plug Server PC - $175 (more)

Paul Graham on doing what you love (Meaning Of Life). (more)

Chris Dent on FeedBack as relates to Collaboration. In an activity group, initial contributions are themselves feedback to some thing in the system: a catalyst. A meme or goal that becomes a leader, or is installed by a leader (which itself could be meme, goal or person). Activity (information) crystallizes around the catalyst, accretes around the growing mass of the signal which is the product (some fun, a paper, a tool, a house, a brand new idea) of the group. Echoes my D And D thoughts...

Student who won Google Science Fair in 2012 - Combining the fields of biology and computer science, Wenger wrote an app that helps doctors diagnose Breast Cancer, according to the description of her project on Google. The type of computer program, called a "NeuralNetwork," was designed by Wenger to mimic the human brain: Give it a massive amount of information (in this case, 7.6 million trials), and the artificial "brain" will learn to detect complex patterns and make diagnostic calls on breast cancer. Her program used data from "fine needle aspirates," a minimally invasive procedure that, unfortunately, is often one of the least precise diagnosis processes, according to Fox News. But Wenger is helping change that, as her program correctly identifies 99 percent of malignant tumors. (more)

book by Seth Godin (more)

How I was taught Essay Writing in the 1970s (Educating Kids). Hated it. (more)

Name for OPML Editor that's core to Dave Winer's Platform - the next spin of Userland Frontier. (more)

Paul Graham on writing Essay-s. In schooling, they're not Stimulating Learning Projects. The seeds of our miserable High School experiences were sown in 1892, when the National Education Association/NEA "formally recommended that literature and composition be unified in the High School course."... Defending a position may be a necessary evil in a legal dispute, but it's not the best way to get at the truth, as I think lawyers would be the first to admit. It's not just that you miss subtleties this way. The real problem is that you can't change the question... An essay doesn't begin with a statement, but with a question. In a real essay, you don't take a position and defend it. You notice a door that's ajar, and you open it and walk in to see what's inside... Expressing ideas helps to form them... An essay is supposed to be a search for truth. It would be suspicious if it didn't meander... The river's algorithm is simple. At each step, flow down. For the essayist this translates to: flow interesting... Essays should aim for maximum surprise... When friends came back from faraway places, it wasn't just out of politeness that I asked what they saw. I really wanted to know. And I found the best way to get information out of them was to ask what surprised them... The more anomalies you've seen, the more easily you'll notice new ones. Which means, oddly enough, that as you grow older, life should become more and more surprising... But (as with wealth) there may be habits of mind that will help the process along. It's good to have a habit of asking questions, especially questions beginning with Why... I find it especially useful to ask why about things that seem wrong... If you want to notice things that seem wrong, you'll find a degree of skepticism helpful. I take it as an axiom that we're only achieving 1% of what we could. This helps counteract the rule that gets beaten into our heads as children: that things are the way they are because that is how things have to be... The most important sort of disobedience (Subversive) is to write essays at all.

Uh-oh, Phil Jones is preferring OutLining to Wiki writing sometimes - the point of the outliner is the collapse which lets you manage and manipulate bundles of items at the same time. We need Wiki And Outlining together! See his comments on SdiDesk and Folding. (more)

Dave Winer is turning his OPML Editor into a Blog Comment system, too! It's a different way of doing it, and long-term I don't even think it'll be seen as comments.

Privacy Hacker - creator of PGP, Z Fone/ZRPT, and Silent Circle (more)

Dave Winer describes his ideal circumstance. What I would like to do is create a new kind of development project, one that goes on for years and years. Maybe decades and decades... I love to teach this stuff. And I'd love to get a project going where students come and go as they shuttle through the university... A university-hosted Open Source project staffed by students creating software for and with other students and teachers and the world. A university is a perfect lab for this work. I've been noodling on a similar vision for years: I've called it the Thinking Tools Lab. (more)