Learning Aesthetics

Balinese say, “We have no art, we do everything as well as possible,” which is sometimes translated: “We have no art, we just do the best we can,” or occasionally, “…we just try to get by.” Of course “everything” undoubtedly had a smaller compass when they first said, “We have no art…etc.” And at the [...]

Well, I have a new job, or maybe just new responsibilities. I’m managing the University Service Center or help desk or however you want to think of it. It’s about reinventing whatever it was and making it work; by my lights that means making something new. It’s not first time I’ve been in this situation, [...]

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 [...]

sort of:
A month or so ago I changed web hosts and didn’t bother to migrate the Learning Aesthetics Blog . Whether this was sheer sloth or a form of auto critique remains questionable. However, anything profound was lost forever, unless some idea has enough merit to resurface here. It’s a new year [...]

The SightWork nexus is going to be somewhere between really-slow and non-existent for the next couple of  weeks.  I’m upgrading pretty much everything including shifting over to the Dvorak keyboard.  We’ll be back better than ever.

So this is going to be a running report, so following the model of the last post or two things will change without RSS updates.  This being my first BC some thoughts: I suddenly understand why there needs to be a limited attendance.  This one is between 70 and 100, not because it was limited [...]

In case anyone was wondering what youth was doing in its spare time:

"The future is already here – it’s just unevenly distributed." – William Gibson
Shel accused me of techno-snobism when I LOLed at last Sunday’s Dilbert.  Domain specific snobism isn’t news of course; it permeates higher education, but it seems to me that when domain specific knowledge, particularly geek specific domain knowledge, inserts itself into the mass [...]

This just in the waterproof Ebook.