Tellio’s InterWeb Notes 07/01/2009 (p.m.)
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10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 3) | gram consulting
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10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 2) | gram consulting
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10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 1) | gram consulting
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Open Source Bridge is a Huge Success
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We want people to experience something beyond “how to use tool X” or “why databases keel over when you do Y” (even though those topics are important, making up our tools and trade, and will be a central part of the conference content). We’d like to share what open source means to us, what it offers, where we struggle, and why we do this day in and day out, even when we’re not paid for it.
- Is this what is missing from NECC? More than just the tools and trade talk? The big divide between open and closed systems in education will come to a head. – post by tellio
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it seemed important to bridge the kinds of roles we have in open source, user/contributor/owner/institution, getting down to something more fundamental. What else are people who interact in this multi-directional way? Perhaps we’re citizens. Not residents–we do more than live here. We are, like citizens of a country, engaged in the practice of an interlocking set of rights and responsibilities.”
- Moving from self-actualization toward duty toward “others” including folks we choose to friend and those we don’t. – post by tellio
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Organizers formed a non-profit organization and the call went out to find volunteers. Citizens responded immediately and there was even support from the city government. Overall, “thousands of hours went into creating this event, all unpaid. Several people who contributed were new to open source development…and made a huge impact anyway”.
- This is what I hope we can do with TheBigTent. – post by tellio
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Franken’s Victory Bolsters Democratic Grip in Senate – NYTimes.com
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After nearly eight months of waiting, almost 20,000 pages of legal briefs, and millions of dollars in election costs,
- What is wrong with this picture? Top down party politics from Chuck Shumer and the DNC made it impossible for Kentucky Democrats to field a decent candidate so I am forced to conclude that the two party system is what’s wrong. And the biggest stumbling block to change–incumbency. Solution might be, in part, term limits. I know that means losing the likes of Russ Feingold, but it also means that Kentucky could get out from under the grip of McConnel and Bunning on the Senate side and Rogers and Chandler on the House side. – post by tellio
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In weeks past, some Republican leaders had urged Mr. Coleman to press on to the federal courts if need be, but those calls faded Tuesday.
- The lesson here for Democrats? Never give up. Put your money where your mouth is. Fight for your people and keep fighting. – post by tellio
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“The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken, and I respect its decision and will abide by the result. It’s time for Minnesota to come together under the leaders it has chosen and move forward. I join all Minnesotans in congratulating our newest United States senator — Al Franken.”
- A mouthful of bitter for Coleman, one of those Senators whose whining over the last year has reeked of self-indulgence and entitlement. The voters spoke eight months ago so why does the NYT allow this guy a pass. – post by tellio
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“When you win an election this close, you know that not one bit of effort went to waste,” said Mr. Franken
- Spoken like someone who is already running again. I wonder if his truncated term will give voters the feeling that he needs a full term when he comes up for re-election. This recount destroys any chance that Coleman could challenge again. Republicans aren’t very good at the unintended consequences game. – post by tellio
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With 60 votes (including those of two independents) now most likely aligned with the Democrats, the party could avoid filibusters.
- Assumes party discipline and a willingness on Obama’s part to call Dems out if needed and punish if called to do so. He hasn’t shown much stomach for this yet. – post by tellio
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Mr. Coleman, who some in Minnesota were already speculating might run for governor in 2010
- I cannot hope that he would make it past the primary. – post by tellio
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After so much turmoil, the phone call was warm and gracious, Mr. Franken said, adding later that he had recalled thinking in the midst of it: “This is nice. This is a nice way to end it.”
- And there it is- that damned club. We are damned if we cannot get this notion out of Washington. The sick, entitled sense that any guild gets when it invests a new member. Now you are one of us so you have to follow our rules foremost and not the rules of those you are constituted to serve. – post by tellio
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Dean Kamen developing eco hybrid that will run on anything that burns
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The origins of BSOS – Bright Shiny Object Syndrome « Open Monologue
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