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 Thursday, August 4, 2005
started 8/4/2005; 6:54:23 PM - last post 8/5/2005; 10:59:14 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, August 4, 2005 
8/4/2005; 10:54:23 PM (reads: 5721, responses: 1)
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Ride on 
DIT knowledge source husbandry
| | I'm in a session for H20 Playlist at OSCON. Very interesting stuff. Make "playlists" of sources for topical syllabi. Kind of a del.icio.us for academic source materials. Pretty neat. |
| | It's a DIT thing: Do It Together, rather than Do It Yourself (DIY). DIT is a concept introduced in a keynote yesterday by Kim Polese of SpikeSource. |
Hooked on phonics
Beyond bondage
| | Lots of unexpected and deep connections between blogging, business, open source, professionalism, amateurism, and the power of loving one's work. A sample: |
| | Business still reflects an older model, exemplified by the French word for working: travailler. It has an English cousin, travail, and what it means is torture. [2] |
| | This turns out not to be the last word on work, however. As societies get richer, they learn something about work that's a lot like what they learn about diet. We know now that the healthiest diet is the one our peasant ancestors were forced to eat because they were poor. Like rich food, idleness only seems desirable when you don't get enough of it. I think we were designed to work, just as we were designed to eat a certain amount of fiber, and we feel bad if we don't. |
| | There's a name for people who work for the love of it: amateurs. The word now has such bad connotations that we forget its etymology, though it's staring us in the face. "Amateur" was originally rather a complimentary word. But the thing to be in the twentieth century was professional, which amateurs, by definition, are not. |
Not news, but new
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odograph - WRX Wagon
8/6/2005; 2:59:14 AM (reads: 650, responses: 0)
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I just got traded my WRX Wagon in! It was silver too. Maybe I could have made you a deal.
FWIW, my post-ownership take:
1. As a "car guy" I give it points on acceleration, but as a "car snob" I considered it unbalanced and less refined than any true sports car. The fact that the wagon had weight high in back might have been a factor, relative to the coupe/sedan/whatever.
2. Would you believe I switched to a Prius? The WRX was actually my utility car, for travel and mountain biking. Mountain biking is enough of a rush that I can drive a funny little car like the Prius (slowly) and get the 50 mpg. The WRX seemed to get about 22 city and 27 highway (close to EPA).
I kept my other car (a Honda S2000, true sports car) but don't actually drive it that much. My advice to other middle-aged computer folks is ... get the Prius, and a mountain bike.
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