I’m currently listening to Phantogram non-stop, this is my favorite:
Quote – Tom Peters
people first, people second, people third, people ad infinitum
That’s the way I like to do business.
From The Little Big Things by Tom Peters
Quote – Anna Kamenetz
…a video version of the course supplemented with a set number of hours of live teaching support, either delivered remotely by a…grad student, or live and in person from a local instructor, for a charge somewhere between zero and several thousand dollars, with credit awarded by your local institution. The existence of such an option–call it MIT on Demand–might even enhance the MIT brand, as OCW already has.
A company called StraighterLine already offers and important version of this idea: accredited online college courses for $399 per course, which includes ten hours of one-on-one tutoring. But the course credit is granted by just four small, unknown, community and for-profit colleges. This approach is half a step away from really blowing things up. It would just take a few more prestigious institutions getting on board to change the way people feel about online, on-demand education.
Anna Kamenetz, DIY U (pg 128)
Music – Heartbeats with “the Knife”
I’m addicted to this song at the moment. There’s also a great remix of the beat featuring Kanye and Common (The Graduate).
A pail blue dot (Carl Sagan) – updated
Pale Blue Dot from Amy Bach on Vimeo.
I’m not sure why they took down the original version (which was very, very cool). But here’s a replacement that’s AOK as well.
Ruminations – Democracy
Could our fore-fathers have actually created the best business model when they created democracy as we know it?
Case in point: www.Quirky.com.
Quote – Mark Twain
The Post Office Department of the United States is an Ass.
Mark Twain, Who is Mark Twain
“I’m here” by Spike Jonze
Sponsored by Absolut Vodka, “I’m here” is a short movie about…uh…robot hipster love.
Great soundtrack (to be expected from Spike) and a few good laughs and touching parts. I thought the film was a pretty endearing retelling of the classic robot-boy meets robot-girl (plus a bit of tragedy).
Give it a watch (it’s about 25 minutes) if you can at the official site (note that only 5000 ‘seats’ to watch are opened a day). The official site: http://www.imheremovie.com
Here’s the trailer:
“it was the best dream in the history of dreams” – Sheldon
Music – Stones
One of my favorite Stones song, Under my Thumb
Quote – Mark Twain
Nothing has to be paid but the rest of the debt; and here I stand, nobly paying it—out of your pockets. That is the way with debts; they just dump along, from shoulder to shoulder, and you never know who has got to foot the bill at last.
Mark Twain, Who is Mark Twain?