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No, not the album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I’m a tad too old for that.
Instead, it’s about this. A 1949 album, “an audible anthology of modern poetry read by its creators”, edited by someone called Lloyd Frankenberg. And the album is a Long Playing Microgroove Record, the first I’ve bought in twenty years.
Amazing stuff. [...]

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Some of you may have read my earlier post on Michael Schrage’s recent article in the Financial Times, pointing out some of the pitfalls associated with computers in classrooms. Some of you may even have seen Clarence Fisher’s almost-angry but later calmer response, a reaction similar to mine.
Why did we respond initially that way? Because [...]

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….Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the Dangling Conversation
And the superficial lives
The borders of our lives……Simon and Garfunkel, The Dangling Conversation
 
Doesn’t that describe everything a blog shouldn’t be?
The words “You can hear the ocean roar” came zooming into my head when I read Malc’s Steve Wozniak telephone story. An absolute hoot.

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There continues to be movement in the microformats meets identity space. Doc Searls’s IT Garage recently had a piece on MicroID; comments and conversations took me to Claimid as well; so the space which I always associate with Subterranean Homesick Hardt is beginning to get busier.
As with search and with syndication, we can get as [...]

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