Learning Aesthetics

Well, it would appear that everyone, myself included, has survived the first week of the new management paradigm. It actually feels like the week lasted about a month, but maybe that’s just me. Before we take off on practical and more directly related topics I thought it might be fun to take a quick look [...]

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
I think when most of us started to listen to Bob Dylan we assumed that we were part of some community that shared a certain hipness denied to the rest of society. Maybe so, but it kind of missed the point. The [...]

…or this is probably headed somewhere. This particular thread started with a post in IF:book ‘looking at libraries‘. Though you should keep in mind that it is thoroughly haunted my last post and Stephen Downes well taken point, “All authentication fails.” Actually it may have started with Chris Mesina’s Thoughts on Data Portability over [...]

You may have noticed that I’m a bit obsessed with Seadragon and it’s various off shoots, but I just stumbled on a more home grown approach to getting more text on the page.  Take a look at Issue Magazine which is just out; it’ll take some experimenting to get the interface but that’s part of [...]

That’s their title not mine, but that aside.  I’ve been an off and on fan of mind-mapping for some time, but I’ve always craved something more 3-D. Enter Personal Brain 4 which is somewhere in between mind & concept mapping or maybe the best of both. PB4 comes in three flavors including a free version [...]

“Man’s grasp exceeds his reach or what’s a metaphor?” Paul Dehn Carleton, with apologies to Robert Browning
Paul Graham is another infrequent poster, but again he’s worth paying attention to, even if I only get 10% of what he’s about. What matters here is that Graham’s test for a new programing language is simply ’shortness’. [...]

Learning Aesthetics has a new look; basic would be a bit of an understatement. It’s the beginning of an experiment. A bit of background:
Philosophy: One of the original intents of the site was to provide a channel for online conversation and exchange among the members of the SU community. However, we discovered that the community [...]