Archives for the 'Cognitive Funding' Category
Facebook as serendipity engine
I check Facebook several times each day, each time for a minute or two. I have it on my Treo and can check it in bad traffic (yeah, yeah, I know) and enjoy how it keeps me connected or reconnects me with people as young in my acquaintance as today and as old as [...]
Now tracking: Google’s latest deal
Don’t miss iMedia’s recent coverage of Google’s deal with Media Rights Capital (You can also see the Variety story here) to create online content and syndicate it with ads thoughout the web. Google is making the content free to sites but will monetize via ads. This is similar to the Brightcove, Fifth Network, Broadband Enterprises [...]
Update: Here is Yusuf Islam singing the other role in “Father and Son”
After Missy commented on my last post, which had a brief discussion of Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens, I turned to Veoh and found the Ronan Keating and Yusuf Islam duet of “Father and Son,” in which Islam/Stevens takes on the other perspective, the father’s, than his original.
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I also found him performing the song [...]
Sometimes the media stay the same and the change is in YOU
Fair warning, y’all, this here is a post that combines the personal and the theoretical.
Recently, I bought the new Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) album, “An Other Cup.” If you liked his old stuff, you’ll like this. Since he left the world stage in the 1970s, Yusuf Islam has had four children, and recently that’s [...]
Harry Potter and the Perils of Extra-Narrative Pressure
I finished “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” yesterday, and it was good– a satisfying end to a seven part epic.
However, outside of the classroom never before have I felt such extra-narrative pressure to finish a book as quickly as possible.
“Keep reading before the ending gets spoiled!” I thought, and many others thought the same [...]
