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POPSDISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTI… No, wait, That Bumper Sticker Expired January 20th
Senator Barbara Boxer has denounced dissenters from Obama's health care proposals as too "well-dressed" to be genuine. Only the Emperor has new clothes. Thankfully, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has seen through the "manufactured anger" of "the Brooks Brothers brigade." Did he announce this in a crumpled suit? He's a Press Secretary who won't press. Apparently, the health care debate now has a dress code. Soon you won't be able to get in unless you're wearing Barack Obama mom-jeans, manufactured at a converted GM plant by an assembly line of retrained insurance salesmen. Any day now, Hollywood will greenlight a new movie in which an insane Sarah Palin figure picks out her outfit for spreading disinformation (The Lyin', The Witch And The Wardrobe). (Nancy Pelosi) "I think they're AstroTurf," she declared. "They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care." So, on Monday, the official White House Web site drew attention to the . . .
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POPSNew Piracy Approach "Joins 'Em" By digitally cataloging whole video libraries Auditude can quickly stick an ad on clipped and illegally posted videos. Contrast this with the Music Industry's punitive strategy to this one that uses the technology and users' penchant to appropriate, mash-up and share. This is a good example of investing in new thinking - who will do the same for education?
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POPSThe Long Tail Wags in Bondi Kiosk Here's a cool example of how digital media changes the nature of retailing. When software is so easily available from such a range of providers when will the kids having donuts and lattes twig that their education could be MUCH MORE personalised without thinking about it too hard?
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POPSIt's, it's, it's... Out of the Park! While record companies complain and file lawsuits against music lovers, Apple tried something different and now makes more from iPhones than computers and is up in the Wal-Mart region for music sales. Score one for trying a new model. I wonder who will be the one to do this for The Assembly Line School?
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POPSYou're in Good Hands... with computer games Allstate insurance has contracted Posit Science to deliver its InSight software to older drivers to help them improve their cognitive abilities. So tell the kids they have to get off the joystick so granddad can do his homework.
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POPSSmart Desks A ten year prediction that all desks will be this. I don't think it will be necessary - students will have their own with ability to sync to a shared plasma / projector.
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