I was thinking some more about the schools issue (Pay As You Learn)I noted a couple of days ago, and found this recent paper expanding on the Systems Archetypes.
Connectors and Mavens! Read more at Microcontent News. This is John Hiler’s blog on Weblogs, Webzines and Personal Publishing, I’ve added it to the blogroll (left).
Thought provoking piece by Tom O’Reilly on the way forward with web services (via EVHEAD).
[Top Ten Reasons To Witness Your Dad’s Demise][1] (via [Doc Searls][2]) was written by Halley Suitt 48 hours before her father died – as she says “here’s my attempt to see the good in these bad times”. Reading it reminded me of my own father – he died in Jan 2000 – and just for a moment reflect on how in some ways he has been with me more often in my thoughts since he died.
Lots of sources report on the story of Sharon Duchesneau and Candace McCullough, the lesbian couple who selected to have a deaf child. (e.g. Guardian,Washington Post). Commentary varies. There is the expected mainstream and “family values” (e.g. Family Research Council) condemnation. I thought I might find some references in support of the couple’s action, but at time of writing Google hasn’t thrown any up. An interesting viewpoint that neither condemns nor supports but expresses empathy with the desire of deaf parents to have a deaf child is put by Sharon Ridgeway, herself a deaf woman who with her deaf husband has given birth to a deaf baby.
Tried out Blogsnob, and as suggested did a random traverse. Kacroon’s World, Cosmic Hammer, My Mundane Mid-Life, Journey Inside My Mind, ikastikoz, ladybee.net, Growlers, thinkhaze, saywhat?!, Diary of a pregnancy, Stepping Stones, Chirographum, lunge.org, brilliant corners…
The engineer who led the team to design the Lunar Module. Born June 14 1929; died March 23 2002. Obituary
It’s the unspoken rule of state education: if you want your kids to do well, you’ve got to pay for private tutors. Which is fine for the well-off middle class, but what about those who can’t afford to? Jenni Russell writes in today’s Guardian about the hidden system of private tuition that is underpinning the apparent success of many state schools, especially in London. This sounds like a classic “Tragedy of the Commons” systems archetype – each person acting for their own perceived benefit actually contributes to the shared resource being depleted for all – the common resource is treated as inexhaustible until the whole system fails.
Zimran at Winterspeak continues to expose the corporate machinations around copyright, media and the digital age…
As something of a counterpoint to the very essence of blogging, the Guardian reprints an essay from 1821 by William Hazlitt “Essay On Reading Old Books” _ I hate to read new books. There are twenty or thirty volumes that I have read over and over again, and these are the only ones that I have any desire ever to read at all. _ In reading a book which is an old favourite with me (say the first novel I ever read) I not only have the pleasure of imagination and of a critical relish of the work, but the pleasures of memory added to it.