Monthly Archives: January 2010

learning

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Daniel Erwin

What are the conditions that surround insights, learning, and inspiration of the greatest sort? One aspect is to constantly reflect ideas off others, whether thru discussion, surveys, or prototypes. How to know whether an idea is ready for testing? Maybe … Continue reading →

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drexler on nanotech

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Daniel Erwin

drexler sums up a lot of big ideas in the foreward to his updated version of “Engines of Creation”. – mass media treat debate as a sport; he doesn’t make explicit the implication that they take out authenticity and blow … Continue reading →

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online universities

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Daniel Erwin

what can we look for as metrics or goals of traditional college education that we want to aim to capture in new media? Obviously there is transfer of specific ideas represented as text/words – that’s basic and already captured by … Continue reading →

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Auto reference

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Daniel Erwin

When I cut and paste – even on this iPhone – it should record the provenance of the content in the background and store it with the text file.

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