Del.icio.us this week

1. one red paperclip

   to creativity cool ideas trading ... saved by 1226 other people ... 6 days ago

2. Sullr : France

   to phone_number people_finder ... saved by 23 other people ... on aug 19

3. A N I M O T O: the end of slideshows

   to design flash media Music online collaboration sharing ... saved by 1002 other people ... on aug 17

4. Tangler

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5. Mixbook | Create Amazing Books With Your Friends!

   to books collaboration creativity Photography photos printing ... saved by 255 other people ... on aug 10

6. Geodata portal :Geodata :King's College London

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7. Profile Builder

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8. Artbreak: Share and sell your art online

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9. myabodo : see your world change

   to architecture environment game ... saved by 72 other people ... on aug 02

Another approach to education from the US

This site, edu 2.0, brought to me by Emily Chang at the superb e-hub, brings another choice in my education debate.

To school or not to school

On the day our li'l lamb goes back to school, my ongoing debate with myself, and occasionally others, about whether she would be better off elsewhere has resurfaced. By elsewhere, I don't mean another school, well, perhaps. Steiner etc. alternatives exist within 3 hours of here, but don't really offer a choice for us. Home-schooling? Maybe. What about starting something locally that could support a home -school choice as a by-product. that's an idea trundling along in the background with a couple of inspiring people in the area. In the meantime, two recent posts have caught my attention. This one from Pat Kane of The Play Ethic about a radical plan for a school in New york. And this one from Ewan McIntosh of edublog which asks some fsacinating questions about higher education (keep reading, it's further down).

Marketing, The Web and the Public Sector

hugh macleod - www.gapingvoid.com

This is a bit of a short post after a title like that; it should be an essay of some sort. Lots of people working in this area; some that I follow, like Demos. My point is that in the entrepreneurial world there is marketing stuff of great interest to the public sector too. If you're browser and broadband is up to it, here's gapingvoid's full cartoon collection on one page. If in doubt, try them a few at a time here. I've just asked if I can use one of these (yes, that one up there) in a report and presentation I'm working on for one of the roughly twenty Hampshire Rural Pathfinder projects. (One of 8 regions involved in this DEFRA-sposnored innovative exercise.) I think there's a lot of interest to the expressed aim of developing public services that are more responsive to customers' needs.

Another cracker from Evelyn

"You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!" - Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Thanks Evelyn

More deli.cio.us - catching up

1. Leafletter

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2. spigit: innovation
   

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3. Lumosity - Brain Games and Memory
   

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4. Footprint Consulting
   

   to ecology Conservation consulting scotland ... saved by 1 other person ... on july 26

5. Views of the Solar
   

   to Astronomy SolarSystem space science sun ... saved by 59 other people ... on july 24

6. The Project Apollo
   

   to history moon NASA photos science space Apollo ... saved by 81 other people ... on july 24

7. Current Solar
   

   to space sun solar science ... saved by 6 other people ... on july 24

8. Astronomy Picture of the
   

   to Astronomy images Photography ... saved by 1313 other people ... on july 24

9. HubbleSite -- Out of the ordinary...out of this
   

   to Astronomy NASA science space technology Hubble ... saved by 1516 other people ... on july 24

10. Google Moon - Lunar Landing
    

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11. NASA Earth Observatory

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1. Google Mars

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2. NASA - JPL Solar System Simulator

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3. LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE AND SPACE SHUTTLE TRACKING

   to NASA satellite science space technology ... saved by 852 other people ... on july 24

4. Jet Propulsion Laboratory

   to NASA Astronomy science space technology Research SolarSystem ... saved by 19 other people ... on july 24

5. Cassini-Huygens Home

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6. NASA - International Space Station

   to NASA space ISS ... saved by 69 other people ... on july 24

Quotes via Evelyne Rodriguez

"When in doubt, share." - as seen on bumper sticker, car ahead (actually a Sun Microsystems ad, yet good counsel anyhow) - Evelyne's Twitter stream 8/23/07


"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde

SOMCATADO percussão

What can I say? Jaw-dropping.

More deli.cio.us

1. Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home

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2. Festival Celte en Gévaudan - Saugues - Haute-Loire (43)

   to celtic music france haute-loire auvergne festival ... on july 23

3. The Co-operative Bank - Climate Change Tracker

   to marketing Conservation climatechange ... saved by 2 other people ... on july 23

4. Mother

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5. The schome website

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6. WikiMindMap

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7. Lifelong Kindergarten :: MIT Media Lab

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1. Antic Earthworks

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2. Cae Mabon

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3. MFLE - for modern languages information, news, resources and ICT in Scotland

   to community education language Scotland learning teaching ... saved by 27 other people ... on july 02

4. caveman lunch with taleb - part 3 » knackeredhack

   Worth reading the rest

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5. Bede's World: where history was made

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Wabi Sabi Work

Wabi Sabi words ...

Focused on nature, authentic, allowed to age, subtle, intuitive, personal, unique, now, whole, open, unresolved, appreciation, seasonal, flexible, ambiguous, tolerant, paradoxical, unrefined, elegant, fractal, organic, living, handmade, soft-edged, patina, stone, listening, seeing, receptive, slow, humble, plain, reflective, mindful, heart, warm.

What are these words?

Focused on technology, copied, eternal youth, bold, obvious, rational, impersonal, conformity, same, in the future, split into parts, closed, closure, depreciation, quarterly, intolerant, unambiguous, black and white, refined ornate, square and measured, geometric, artifact, mass-produced, hard=edged, plastic, steel, talk, show, arrogant, fast, proud, fancy unconscious, mindless, heartless, cold

In a balanced life, or in my balance for life, I am happier with the first list, but working life often brings me amongst the second lot. Can a philosophy or approach to working life based on the first collection survive and benefit those worlds of work dominated by the second? Or should I give up now and find a world of work that the first list describes?

What do you think?