(via nekodesu-jp)
Kirk's cogitations
“ i want to get a twitter feed directly to my balls… so every time i get a twitter, it microengraves the tweet on a single sperm (like a sperm tattoo)… that way, long after i am dead, anthropologists and archaeologists can collect my little white towel collection and decode a generation’s worth of culture
From a Skype message by Nathaniel Green.
Philadelphia cheesesteak I made the other night for a few rookies. Being in Japan, we had to improvise when it came to the bread, but it worked! Oishii!!!
“ Another outcome of the social nervous system is that we see the shift away from privacy as an inalienable right to an individual responsibility. In a social nervous system there will be increasing pressure to be connected 24/7 to the hive mind that is Facebook, Twitter and so on. Those who do not connect, share and collaborate will have a hard time in business and in social life.
The Rise of the Social Nervous System (via girk)
“ Learning seems to occur when kids have to figure things out for themselves (or better yet, explain them to others) and when there is a natural reason for doing so. Yet most schools today are organized around artificial problems and homework assignments and with everyone working on the same problems there is virtually no room for kids to learn from each other.
great post on education by my partner Albert (link below). My dad was a college professor and he would always make his students start class by “taking boards” and teaching each other. the greatest way to learn is by teaching.
Thinking about Education and Learning - Continuations
(via fred-wilson)
Don’t you love our new down page?
this is on the cover of this month’s gourmet magazine and earlier this week i told my family that i was dying to try it. my daughter jessica made it today for lunch, with ricks picks bee n’ beez pickles and i have to say it was one of the best sandwiches i’ve ever had.
10 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die
Couldn’t agree more with Andrew Baron’s eloquent blog post about the inevitable demise of the traditional studio.
“My number one takeaway, a perception I did not have before, is that the studios are probably not going to make it. I always assumed and have always said that I believe the studios will make it through the transition on top but now I’m not so sure.” From dembot.
While one could accuse those of us who share this opinion of hoping for (or celebrating) the demise of the big studio, in actuality, all we’re doing is observing what’s happening and intelligently connecting the dots. Can you blame us for that?
Instead of fearing us, the studios should be thanking us for our outspoken observations and predictions; if they do have any chance of surviving, it will be because someone convinced them to change their business models, and to do it fast!
In fact, the real people the studios should be thanking (instead of trying to arrest) are the so-called “pirates.” Their collective disruptive action has helped accelerate a paradigm change that will create more opportunities and grow the creative market. These pirates have demonstrated that charging for access to content not only goes against the grain of the Internet, but that it can actually hurt your bottom line, especially if you consider that disruptive technologies change the dynamics of how money is made. Digital is different, but the reality is, you can only shout so loud for so long, until you give up, or worse, resent those who don’t listen…
On a more positive note, what I am celebrating is not the demise of the studio, but rather the new business models that are emerging from a relatively small, but fast-growing prosumer culture. This distributed force of so-called amateurs are part of the next wave. We’re going to see more varied, interesting and meaningful media produced by a far greater number of people for costs (from production to distribution) that pale in comparison to what is spent by the big studios today. And of course, all of this will be available for free… and more money will be made tomorrow than was made today. Bank on it.
Neglect
I’ve neglected my Tumblr account lately, but am excited by all the awesome improvements in V5…
