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