A day in twitter October 12.

It's been a little quiet over here because I keep laying with twitter to see what might be possible. My hypothesis is that twitterstreams in print create many new possibilities for learning. Below are this mornings tweets.

• "The concept of an 'average American' is gone, probably forever," Ad age http://ilnk.me/254 | Go #transpromo! Go transinfo!
  Mon Oct 12 12:54:28 +0000 2009
• New Blog Post : Xerox Going Forward. Go #Xerox ! http://ilnk.me/253
  Mon Oct 12 12:51:04 +0000 2009
• "Anything that increases total wealth is desired" Seeking Alpha http://ilnk.me/252 |The most secure form of personal wealth is "smart."
  Mon Oct 12 12:38:53 +0000 2009
• "utility, current consumption and GDP maximazation are the not the proper goals. Wealth is." Seeking Alpha http://ilnk.me/252
  Mon Oct 12 12:36:28 +0000 2009
• "Complexity theorists generally believe P ≠ NP " http://ow.ly/tUPC via @OpenHQR
  Mon Oct 12 12:17:52 +0000 2009
• "what we will gain from P = NP will make the whole Internet look like a footnote in history." http://ow.ly/tUPC via @OpenHQR
  Mon Oct 12 12:16:35 +0000 2009
• "it appears likely that USA Today will lose its spot as the biggest newspaper in the States to The Wall Street Journal," http://ilnk.me/251
  Mon Oct 12 12:08:50 +0000 2009
• RT @troyplanet Focus creates energy. | Exactly. That's why to get things to suck less, "attention must be paid." -Death of a Salesman.
  Mon Oct 12 12:05:38 +0000 2009
• "due to the general proliferation of fuckwits per capita" via @troyplanet http://ilnk.me/250 Check out the vids in the sidebar. Hoo ha!
  Mon Oct 12 11:59:40 +0000 2009
• RT @jewishbloggers Turkey: A Ladino newspaper. http://j.mp/inFQH | Fascinating read(2me). Go Print!
  Mon Oct 12 11:49:01 +0000 2009
• "Connect to Your Community By Sharing Quality Video Content" Via @alisonavigayil http://ilnk.me/24d
  Mon Oct 12 11:39:02 +0000 2009
• "For less than $5,000, organizations can create a professional virtual school presence in just a few weeks".Educadium http://ilnk.me/24c
  Mon Oct 12 11:32:59 +0000 2009
• @alisonavigayil Maybe #videos4Learning ? | Print and Video are the two mass mediums.
  Mon Oct 12 11:29:25 +0000 2009
• Via @alisonavigayil "my pick of the day" [http://tinyurl.com/yzjwhaf] Brilliant! Consider a # to keep your finds all in one place.
  Mon Oct 12 11:28:05 +0000 2009
• @NYTimes Fox’s Volley With Obama http://bit.ly/3QPFbs |"Fox averaged 1.2 million viewers" | It's a niche market. Why take them seriously?
  Mon Oct 12 11:21:02 +0000 2009
• via @NYTimes Fox’s Volley With Obama http://bit.ly/3QPFbs |"Mr. Obama’s first year is on track to be the Fox News Channel’s highest rated."
  Mon Oct 12 11:18:03 +0000 2009
• via @NYTimes Fox’s Volley With Obama http://bit.ly/3QPFbs | "Fox seems to relish the controversy." | It's news-etainment. Good biz model.
  Mon Oct 12 11:16:25 +0000 2009
• via @NYTimes Fox’s Volley With Obama http://bit.ly/3QPFbs |It's just celebrity biz. Great for their ratings. Sucks for the public discourse.
  Mon Oct 12 11:10:06 +0000 2009
• " a space & language for open, reflective and reasoned strategic conversation, for South Africans" http://ilnk.me/24b |
  Mon Oct 12 11:06:43 +0000 2009
• via @printingtools http://tinyurl.com/yzoqqzn |"NEVER b able 2get instant data gratification"#twitterprint |Instant gratification is 4kids.
  Mon Oct 12 11:01:28 +0000 2009
• PIA "opposes the idea of a government-run health insurance exchange program" http://ilnk.me/24a | WTF? #twitterprint
  Mon Oct 12 10:55:29 +0000 2009
• http://bit.ly/17Jl5H via @LearningMe " Twitter’s $1 billion val +$30 million to Univ of TIMCO| Non profit hedge funds w/ schools as cover.
  Mon Oct 12 10:38:25 +0000 2009
• Seth's blog: "Apparent risk is avoiding the chance that people will laugh at you" http://ilnk.me/248 | The real teacher & admin problem.
  Mon Oct 12 10:28:54 +0000 2009
• via @LearningMe Education News http://bit.ly/aZDqc | "Stress reduction program being introduced at Barnstable High School | Smart.
  Mon Oct 12 10:23:59 +0000 2009
• RT @G_PrintMonitor Office Depot Expands Private Brand Ink and Toner Assortment to Support Dell Printers: http://bit.ly/AXM9T #HP #XEROX
  Mon Oct 12 10:18:51 +0000 2009
• "Last year alone, the LA School Police issued 4,000 truancy tickets".http://ilnk.me/247 | So much cheaper to get in touch with momma.
  Mon Oct 12 10:17:07 +0000 2009
• Personalized #newspapers 4 learning - In prisons and BoT High Schools - The ads and contact info for available social services.
  Mon Oct 12 10:11:00 +0000 2009
• "delivering it in locally-appropriate forms " http://ilnk.me/246 is where versioned personalized #newspapers replace textbooks.
  Mon Oct 12 10:03:06 +0000 2009
• growth market in education is modularizing knowledge, delivering it in locally-appropriate forms and certifying " http://ilnk.me/246 | Yep.
  Mon Oct 12 10:01:42 +0000 2009
• "Australians Open U.S. Med School -Only Americans will be accepted". http://ilnk.me/243 | Teachers have a calling, but edu is a business.
  Mon Oct 12 09:47:47 +0000 2009
• Accrediting commissions in #education are similar to rating agencies for bonds. Oops!
  Mon Oct 12 09:41:49 +0000 2009
• "accredited by the Higher Learning Commission a member of the NCA," http://ilnk.me/245 | The guild turns paper into $$$.
  Mon Oct 12 09:40:08 +0000 2009
• "We have little experience managing educational quality from a distance". http://ilnk.me/243 | Even when the distance is across campus.
  Mon Oct 12 09:35:24 +0000 2009
• "only way I can imagine having offshore sites is to have “non-regular” faculty to do the job on a permanent assignment", http://ilnk.me/243
  Mon Oct 12 09:31:52 +0000 2009
• "Laureate Education, Inc ..more than 500,000 students .. network of accredited" | Selling certs is the best biz there is. http://ilnk.me/244
  Mon Oct 12 09:27:46 +0000 2009
• "the College of Santa Fe was likely to soon join the Laureate family of institutions of higher education." ", http://ilnk.me/243
  Mon Oct 12 09:24:33 +0000 2009
• "This website is dedicated to discussion and analysis of the forces coming to bear on higher education", http://ilnk.me/243
  Mon Oct 12 09:22:05 +0000 2009
• Rt @AlexGoodall @ProfessionalOne: Give clients | students | permission to say "no." | Real learning is opt-in.
  Mon Oct 12 09:19:33 +0000 2009
• RT @qrpower @talyagoldberg http://twitpic.com/l8hot - Long Street is practically QR Code Heaven these days. | cool poster.
  Mon Oct 12 09:13:58 +0000 2009
• Major changes occurring in the world are redefining the metrics of excellence for higher #education. http://ilnk.me/243 | Oops! for colleges
  Mon Oct 12 09:11:36 +0000 2009
• No org-overhead professional development is the low hanging fruit. See Christensen http://ilnk.me/242 to see what I mean.
  Mon Oct 12 09:04:13 +0000 2009
• "the need for scale in professional development and for fundamentally more affordable models" - Clay Christensen http://ilnk.me/242
  Mon Oct 12 09:02:14 +0000 2009
• According to an article in eSchool News, online programs are seeing a dramatic spike . . Clay Christensen http://ilnk.me/242
  Mon Oct 12 08:59:14 +0000 2009
• "Online teachers and online training of teachers" Clay Christensen blog http://ilnk.me/242
  Mon Oct 12 08:57:49 +0000 2009
• "Tomorrow's would-be star employees are on the sidelines,." MSNBC http://ilnk.me/240 | Ready to become teachers or start their own business?
  Mon Oct 12 08:43:57 +0000 2009
• When was "citizen" replaced with "consumer" ?
  Mon Oct 12 08:38:43 +0000 2009

Thinking about Print and Education with Twitter

Is learning how grape vines spread a key to education informatics? #biomimicry

Do grape vines "publish" grapes? and Triffids - by adding motion - "produce" videos? #biomimicry

The Day of the Triffids video clip http://bit.ly/2ywkUf

From @newscientist "Gardening goes all hot and steamy" http://bit.ly/Cdr0C #biomimicry

If #education=communication, then sustainable #education=sustainable communications. Nature makes grapes. People make wine. #biomimicry

Twitter as a Communications Research Tool

Duplicate of post at Tough Love for Xerox.

For the last few weeks, I've been playing with twitter and finding interesting-to-me tweets. The observable behavior that indicates "interesting-to-me" is if I bother to tweet about it. To manage learning observable behavior is more reliable than speech acts, either in the form of standardized tests or traditional surveys.

From time to time, it's also interesting-to-me to look over my tweets. 140 characters might turn out to be a set of useful "dots." I would call them memes. What I'm thinking is that demography + genetics + mimetics may be just the right lens to reveal the mechanisms of a communication ecology.

The hypothesis being tested:
Twitterstreams published in print with Smart QR are a useful tool for learning.

So far, it's working for me. But that doesn't mean it's going to work for anyone else. Until some real testing is done in the field it's only an educated guess based on my experience and reading. It's Nothing more.

At any rate, here's some "dots" -memes- in the world of Print.

"Sony seems like the bst hope for a strong Amazon altrntv (Plastic Logic is a fairly prmsng dark horse)" via @raduboncea http://bit.ly/RStuY

The point is that the ereader market is now really heating up. My opinion is that it will drive print on demand versions of those same books. Real readers have always been a small market. As that market grows, the demand of printed books will grow. It's confusing because we always had the reader/textbook market to ourselves. But a smaller piece of a growing market is ok.

"When you do something by heart, it bypasses some of the common sense processing" Seth's Blog http://bit.ly/4ejJGa

This is another view on the "too busy, being busy" problem. When you are too busy, being busy you tend to make decisions from the heart without engaging the brain.

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ToughLoveforX RT @risoprinter RISO blog: Leveraging Twitter for your printing business http://ow.ly/15LFIj
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from Risoprinter @ToughLoveforX Thanks for the blog post and thanks for the Follow. Looking forward to saying hello at Print '09 (RISO booth #1263)
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ToughLoveforX @risoprinter no thx necessary. If it's intrstng-2-me, I blog it. Riso is now quite intrstng-2-me. Won't be in Chicago. I'll follow @WTT.com

I did a post about Riso here yesterday. The exchanges above happened within a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon. What I think I'm seeing from Riso is a level of responsiveness and creativity that I think is going to give the other globals a real run for their money. The video at their YouTube channel was very impressive-to-me.

To be clear, I an NOT fishing for responses. Nor do I really care about building a "following" or creating a "brand." I care about fixing high school education at the bottom of the pyramid. To all my friends in the industry who have known me for many years, no fooling around, my day job is now managing my IRA.

In the service of trying to figure out when interesting-to-me, is interesting-to-someone else, here are the items that caught someone's attention and were "good enough" interesting to RT. If other people thought they were interesting, an unexpected pattern might emerge from these.

The RTs since August 23, 2009

BrentKPohlmanRT @ToughLoveforX: RT @BrentKPohlman @theindependent http://bit.ly/TOe86 Very cool Newspaper using Twitter! " #clickableprint Thanks 4 RT

dcarliRT @ToughLoveforX NatGeo's Responsible Brand www.bit.ly/F0J9R NatGeo+#CGX+#HP doing personalized #printernet publishing www.bit.ly/136L07

good_educationRT @ToughLoveforX RT@DPendletonSC "I am trying to look at recommendd educational lnks frm TweetDeck, but EVERYTHING is blocked fro ...

AugmentedAdvertRT: RT @ToughLoveforX #Clickableprint = connecting Print to anywhere, anytime video using Smart #QR codes. Sm.. http://bit.ly/10tVzf

qrpowerRT @ToughLoveforX #Clickableprint = connecting Print to anywhere, anytime video using Smart #QR codes. Smart #QR.. http://bit.ly/3iBNNo

twittor_groupsRT @ToughLoveforX "Doctors, health care groups use Twitter to reach public http://bit.ly/pMJFy (via @Twittor_Groups) Me: twitterstr ...

qrpowerRT @ToughLoveforX Note: "A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture." = read free/pay for print. Imagine if.. http://bit.ly/xYQvO

s_dunnGreat Teacher Resource RT @ToughLoveforX: "These Twitter feeds come from classroom teachers offering great advice .." http://bit.ly/CU7KP

qrpowerRT @ToughLoveforX New blog post: The Economist does an article on 2D. It's not just #QR. It's Data Matrix + Ezco.. http://bit.ly/18jwmq

katagana@ToughLoveforX great isn't it? Biomimicry is the way of the future!

Growing a theory of Communication Ecology. 140 characters at a time.

This morning's tweets from ToughLoveForX.

RT @dokodare skin.etc.. http://bit.ly/ij32M + http://bit.ly/j5SwU "nature; its slow throb of multi, dcy, regnrtn, symtry, disordr" . Nice.

RT@EvidenceMatters Matthew effect .. bibliometrics http://tr.im/x8QA MJ: if memes = genes, is bibliometrics a mimetics specialisation?

RT@twittor_groups RT @trinamilan Twubs are Twitter groups built around #hashtags: http://twubs.com/ MJ: Consider #English_101_section_3

If #education = learning to evaluate research, then teacher colleges should teach Greenhalgh http://tr.im/x8Eh (via @EvidenceMatters )

RT@complexdays Mini Robofish.. #biomimicry | #mimesis http://ff.im/-78C5U MJ: if they get them to swim in schools, we can fix #education.

If memes=genes, and Wolfram is right about a new science and string theory is useful and communication has an ecology, then #biomimicry?

A Twitter approach towards a theory of sustainable communication ecology

I started "twittering" about a month ago. As of today, I consider myself a born again twitt. A twitter stream from this morning, follows:

RT@OpenHQR What is Holistic Quantum Relativity? http://ow.ly/kW2D Me: demographics+genetics+mimetics = #education informatics.

Australian academic S.J. Whitty .. "project management is a memeplex" http://bit.ly/1jFEnI

S.J. Whitty "In this paper I will . . argue . . for . . memetic approach to PM research" PDF @ http://bit.ly/1HRW0v

Dawkins says “all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities” Memes are self replicators,

Kofman says "we do not talk about what we see; we see only what we can talk about”:

Bandler says "Misled by the structure of our language, we come to assume that blue is a property" of the thing. Printers know how that works

S.J. Whitty says the language of P M "has evolved by memetic selection. This presupposes no design, only the appearance of it. "

S.J. Whitty says " Memes are tools for thinking, and they have to be used in order for them to generate behaviour " #Education is thinking.

S.J. Whitty "Instead of seeing knowledge as cnstrctd by social system, memetics defines social systems as cnstrctd by knowledge processes.

Blackmore suggests that our enormous human brain size has been created by memes, a product of genetic and memetic evolution.

S.J Whitty :" Memetic research could identify/isolate. . 'best practice' Organisations would then . . . (get to) a shorter learning time

AIPM says "Our vision is to be recognised by bsiness,industry, government, as the leader in prject mngmnt profesnalsm. http://bit.ly/psWoD

Oops! The correct link for Australian Institute of Project Management is http://bit.ly/8x79N