Comments on: The First Thread. http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/ The Evolution of a Digital Thread. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:22:11 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: mark http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-39 mark Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:26:25 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-39 I rarely comment on blogs but yours I had to stop and say Great Blog!! I rarely comment on blogs but yours I had to stop and say Great Blog!!

]]> By: mark http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-38 mark Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:41:48 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-38 It is the coolest site,keep so! It is the coolest site,keep so!

]]> By: andylockran http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-9 andylockran Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:50:07 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-9 <p>It’s a credit to how hard you’re working that you’re unable to keep this blog updated. What you are creating I think is really very noble. It’s about I.T. discipline and fundamental understanding rather than going for the “digital candy” straight away. I’m really enjoying playing with my openmoko (although have currently lent it to some developers in my home town to play with.</p> <p>I hope you continue to enjoy the project, both from a philosophical and a physical standpoint.</p> It’s a credit to how hard you’re working that you’re unable to keep this blog updated. What you are creating I think is really very noble. It’s about I.T. discipline and fundamental understanding rather than going for the “digital candy” straight away. I’m really enjoying playing with my openmoko (although have currently lent it to some developers in my home town to play with.

I hope you continue to enjoy the project, both from a philosophical and a physical standpoint.

]]> By: Bishop http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Bishop Wed, 09 May 2007 18:59:39 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-8 <p>Sean, dude!! Check this out!</p> <p>http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199500131</p> <p>I can’t find your email, so let me know if you get this. Look at the picture. Tha tlooks like the orange neo1973 the announcer is holding in his hand.</p> Sean, dude!! Check this out!

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199500131

I can’t find your email, so let me know if you get this. Look at the picture. Tha tlooks like the orange neo1973 the announcer is holding in his hand.

]]> By: Bonnie Russell http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Bonnie Russell Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:53:38 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-7 <p>Oh Sean,</p> <p>Still so brilliant. You’re on to something; but ultimately, it’s the people who make it go. Just like something as simple as Craigslist.</p> <p>There will always be people like me, who can crash great technology; without meaning to. :)</p> <p>Take care. Stay well.</p> Oh Sean,

Still so brilliant. You’re on to something; but ultimately, it’s the people who make it go. Just like something as simple as Craigslist.

There will always be people like me, who can crash great technology; without meaning to. :)

Take care. Stay well.

]]> By: Cartex http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Cartex Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:30:02 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-6 <p>Hi Sean,</p> <p>Please improve the colors/contrast scheme of your website, I can hardly read anything on a laptop screen.</p> <p>Cheers!</p> Hi Sean,

Please improve the colors/contrast scheme of your website, I can hardly read anything on a laptop screen.

Cheers!

]]> By: jonas http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5 jonas Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:00:52 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-5 <p>The key to learning is enabling better communication. Whether one is talking about learning in a classroom or learning about one’s peers, communication is the tool by which learning happens. OpenMoko is a great step forward, because it will allow us all to cooperate on building a better communications platform, making us all better teachers and students.</p> <p>In terms of practical features to work towards, the number one thing that OpenMoko could do that is missing from Linux distros in general is good sync with <span class="caps">PIM</span> (personal information manager / management) on phones. I would <span class="caps">LOVE</span> to have a phone that syncs with either Ubuntu (preferable) or MacOS. <span class="caps">GPE</span> seems to have a good start on this, if only the N800 was a phone.</p> <p><span class="caps">RIM</span> and the Blackberry are so amazingly popular for one reason: they make <span class="caps">PIM</span> and mobile data access easy. If my phone has internet access, and my computer has internet access, why should I ever have to sync them? They should just talk to each other over the internet. Obviously, creating an entire <span class="caps">PIM</span> desktop environment is beyond the scope of this project. However, the ability to sync with Thuderbird (on any platform), mail.app and iCal.app (on the mac), evolution, korganize and kontact, google calendar and gmail, and (shudder) Outlook would let <span class="caps">FIC</span> leapfrog <span class="caps">RIM</span>. Why should open source lag behind proprietary software?</p> The key to learning is enabling better communication. Whether one is talking about learning in a classroom or learning about one’s peers, communication is the tool by which learning happens. OpenMoko is a great step forward, because it will allow us all to cooperate on building a better communications platform, making us all better teachers and students.

In terms of practical features to work towards, the number one thing that OpenMoko could do that is missing from Linux distros in general is good sync with PIM (personal information manager / management) on phones. I would LOVE to have a phone that syncs with either Ubuntu (preferable) or MacOS. GPE seems to have a good start on this, if only the N800 was a phone.

RIM and the Blackberry are so amazingly popular for one reason: they make PIM and mobile data access easy. If my phone has internet access, and my computer has internet access, why should I ever have to sync them? They should just talk to each other over the internet. Obviously, creating an entire PIM desktop environment is beyond the scope of this project. However, the ability to sync with Thuderbird (on any platform), mail.app and iCal.app (on the mac), evolution, korganize and kontact, google calendar and gmail, and (shudder) Outlook would let FIC leapfrog RIM. Why should open source lag behind proprietary software?

]]> By: Marcus Bauer http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Marcus Bauer Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:56:19 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-4 <p>As you are writing about new ways of learning, I wonder if you know about the “Hole in the Wall” experiment: a computer made accessible to India’s poor.</p> <p>To me it gave a lot of new insights about the natural process of learning.</p> <p>Links:<br /> http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm<br /> http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/thestory.html<br /> http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00302b.htm</p> As you are writing about new ways of learning, I wonder if you know about the “Hole in the Wall” experiment: a computer made accessible to India’s poor.

To me it gave a lot of new insights about the natural process of learning.

Links:
http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/thestory.html
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00302b.htm

]]> By: dave crossland http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-3 dave crossland Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:19:05 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-3 <p>Have you seen johntaylorgatto.com ? Schooling is designed to not educate. Things like Free Software, like Wikipedia and a Free Software phone, are going to make schools irrelevant because what you can learn with an internet connection is going to relate to schools like a firehose relates to a dripping tap :-)</p> Have you seen johntaylorgatto.com ? Schooling is designed to not educate. Things like Free Software, like Wikipedia and a Free Software phone, are going to make schools irrelevant because what you can learn with an internet connection is going to relate to schools like a firehose relates to a dripping tap :-)

]]> By: Richard Franks http://threads.moss-pultz.com/2006/12/03/second-post/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Richard Franks Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:29:38 +0000 http://threads.moss-pultz.com/?p=10#comment-2 <p>I think the answer is obliquely presented on the splash-page: “Computers like a client-server relationship. Humans do not.” </p> <p>With human-human communication, it still operates on the client-server model, but the distinctions are:</p> <p>1) There are fewer instances where converstations are expected to consist of entirely self-contained references. Compare “How was your day at work?” with an <span class="caps">HTTP</span> Request.</p> <p>2) The mapping of the client-server relationship with human-human interactions changes dynamicly and unpredictably throught the lifespan of the peers.</p> <p>Yet the <span class="caps">HTTP</span> Request as a primitive form of communication has already transformed learning – instead of remembering facts, I remember how to reference those facts.</p> <p>It follows then, that conceptual and development (UI, Data, Libraries) commonality leading to more p2p (human-conceptual) communications, turns the Personal Digital Assistant closer to filling the role of Personal Assistant.</p> <p>Whether this benefits intellectual development, and should be encouraged in schooling, is another question!</p> I think the answer is obliquely presented on the splash-page: “Computers like a client-server relationship. Humans do not.”

With human-human communication, it still operates on the client-server model, but the distinctions are:

1) There are fewer instances where converstations are expected to consist of entirely self-contained references. Compare “How was your day at work?” with an HTTP Request.

2) The mapping of the client-server relationship with human-human interactions changes dynamicly and unpredictably throught the lifespan of the peers.

Yet the HTTP Request as a primitive form of communication has already transformed learning – instead of remembering facts, I remember how to reference those facts.

It follows then, that conceptual and development (UI, Data, Libraries) commonality leading to more p2p (human-conceptual) communications, turns the Personal Digital Assistant closer to filling the role of Personal Assistant.

Whether this benefits intellectual development, and should be encouraged in schooling, is another question!

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