Hyper-space universities

Blogging and twittering in hypertext 

Links live sites of thinking 

 A new ontology of argument space 

 What a refreshing change from ‘references’ 

A new hyper-space for intellectual engagement 

ThirdLife syn-logisms?

2nd Holocaust Memorial

The Second European Holocaust Memorial 

 

There is an appeal for donations for the second European Holocaust Memorial. 

 It is an attempt to learn a little from the first Holocaust, where Europe ate itself up in the gas chambers the firebombings and in the mighty tank and naval battles of the second world slaughter. 

 Europe is about to eat itself up again in the self inflicted plagues of flooding and desertification that will result from global warming. 

 Donations will go to recording stories and pictures of Europe as it is at the start of the 21st Century before it is lost in the sands for future generations. 

 These pre-emptive archives will be housed in a secure twin-Holocaust Memorial and Study centre just inside the Arctic Circle linking the documents from the Spielberg project on the first 20th Century holocaust with these documents from its 21st Century twin. 

 Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin will be asked to chair a commissioning panel for the Centre. 

 It is probably too late to turn around the ravages of the global climate disaster but at least we might be able to secure a record of what Europe was like for those who follow us who might otherwise be incredulous as to how we could allow two Holocausts to happen in Europe within less than 100 years.

Steerage Anyone?

Caught at the end of an email ... 

 "I am now somewhere over the Sahara 

heading back to Joburg for three days 

and doing my bit to add to global warming 

and hasten the demise of the planet. 

 But then as John likes to say: 

'If you are sailing on the Titanic 

there is no point in travelling steerage'".

The Best of Savage Garden

a girl sits upstairs next to the window. 

on the number 24 bus 

 she takes a CD out of her bag 

 Truly, Madly, Completely: The Best of Savage Garden. 

 she removes the security tab without damaging the cling rap 

and puts the CD back in her bag. 

 she takes the CD out of her bag 

and removes the £8 price tag without damaging the cling rap 

and puts the CD back in her bag. 

she takes the CD out of her bag and removes the cling rap 

and puts the CD back in her bag. 

 she takes the CD out of her bag 

pulls open the side of the cover 

opens the flap 

takes the CD out 

puts the CD back 

closes the flap 

and puts the CD back in her bag 

 

she folds her hands on top of her bag 

 and proceeds on route 24.

Learning #2

Learning is ... 

 The smile that arises 

from exploring, benchmarking, & mastering 

 new affordances

Learning is ...

Learning is 

the smile that arises 

from interesting conversations 

interesting experiments 

and good practise

Porky and Bess

The media are story tellers.
They tell stories
They sell stories
They sell tallies
Story sellers
Porky tellers

Joanne Lees ... 

"has written a book to ...
'take back my life from the storytellers'".