Toluu

Green Hills of Earth

Just another Bozo on the bus.....

Decision ‘08 Presidential ResultsNovember 2

Watch the Vote on this Historic Election!

      

Media 70 and the Age of McLuhanSeptember 17

History of Media 70 and Timeline

(Note: This is a work in progress. There may be memory lapses. After all, we are becoming part of the new ’60s Generation’. Additions and corrections welcome.) Media 70 was organized in the Summer of 1968 to produce a multi-media show for the Freshman Summer Orientation Program at University of Texas in Austin. The show was designed to stimulate evening ‘rap’ sessions among incoming freshman–discussions were a key part of the orientation experience. The initial production, called Values was highly successful. Media 70 lasted until the Summer of 1971, and would produce 4 major productions and several message themed shows. At it’s peak, Media 70 included as many as dozen talented contributors.

During the first years of Media 70’s existence, the turmoil of the 60’s began to influence campus life. The Vietnam War was in full sway. The 1968 Tet offensive and battles of Hue and Khe San proved that the country could not end the war quickly. In 1969, the Selective Service instituted a lottery and ended graduate student deferments. Students distributed anti-war literature on the West Mall on the UT campus in Austin. The radical political publication, The Rag, acquires a large a loyal readership. Even the mainstream Daily Texan began to push back on the over-bearing school administration and about national issues.

The trad

Heinlein Lives OnAugust 24

Update to - Heinlein Lives

Robert and Ginny Heinlein in Tahiti 1980, taken by Hayford Peirce

While the Heinlein Centennial was celebrated in 2007, this article in the Wall Street Journal bears another look. “Robert A. Heinlein’s Legacy” By TAYLOR DINERMAN ~ WSJ July 26, 2007; Page D7.

There are some fairly good FaceBook groups providing information, links and discussion of the works, quotes and point of view of Heinlein, real or imagined.

Time Enough For Heinlein ~ Robert Heinlein fan group ~ Heinlein is my hero

For myself, I never tended to goosestep into pushing the writings, or personal life of Heinlein into a cookie cutt

Farnham’s Global Collaboration GuidelinesMay 17

After visiting WonderWebby on Collaboration Guidelines, I went to see the published guidelines from IBM and Sun (via Skrocki), and then back to BluePrints. See how it works? No, really, I know I’m on the ‘path’ when 2 of my fav tech dogs (IBM and Sun) are pushing guidelines for creativity and collaboration, in addition to my day job references a ‘most restrictive’ default administrator policy for blade servers..lol.

So I am using this blog to officially announce “Farnham’s Global Collaboration Guidelines” as a blog posting, as well as a

Papyrus 2.0March 24

Web 2.0 (3D?) is a media-level improvement to a good communications tool – in a long line of improvements. Just as paper and ink are the media for both philosophy and pornography, so is the digital community of Web 2.0 a medium for the useful and useless, trivial and monumental. We can not blame the medium for the lack of message, but the community is the message, rather than the medium (McLuhan). As the community learns the power of the new medium, the level of creative involvement and utilitarian purposes will grow.

We are a pack species. Communicate and community have the same root, and Web 2.0 is about community in a virtual and digital sense. Even though we like to press the flesh at real life meetups, there is also a very strong sense of community in Web 2.0 as well. And it is growing. Eight months ago, I began blogging, networking, metaversing, tweeting, meeting. I have gathered a very active and robust core of new contacts and friends, and have reconnected with a few old treasures. Some of the connections I have never spoken with, or even emailed to, but only ‘friended’, or ‘tweeted’, or ‘myrled’. Is this real community? Yes, of course.