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Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price 7.14.09
FYI: I downloaded the audiobook of this title free from Audible.com.
*One of the reasons that Free is often so hard to grasp is that it is not a thing.... 34
*the social bonds ... tend to fray when the size of a group exceeds 150 (termed the Dunbar Number) 40
*our feelings about "free" are relative.... 56
*In the end it always seemed to be about a story--people like to see the beginning, middle, end, and plot of something.... 69
*in a digital marketplace, Free is almost always a choice. 72
*This "triple play" of faster, better, cheaper technologies--processing, storage, and bandwidth--all come together online, which is why today you can have free services like YouTube.... 78
*The point: Ideas are the ultimate abundance commodity, which propagate at zero maginal cost. Once created, ideas want to spread far and wide, enriching everything they touch. 83
*If the unitary cost of technology...is halving every eighteen months, when does it come close enough to zero to...round down to nothing? 89
*All information should be free. 96
*On the one hand information wants to be expensive...On the other hand, information wants to be free.... 96
*This is Googleplex, the headquarters of the biggest company in history built on giving things away. 119
*each data factory Google builds can do twice as much for the same price as the one it built about a year and a half earlier. As a result, every eighteen months the cost to Google of providing you with your Gmail inbox falls by about half. 121-22
CEO Eric Schmidt - Google's "max strategy" 'Take whatever it is you are doing and do it to the max in terms of distribution...since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well put things everywhere.' 123
*... one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191
To Learn Twice: Blog Action Day: Poverty
our world is now open to the eyes of our students. Technology makes it possible to with a couple of clicks able to read about poverty, TB, or AIDS which is faster access to print resources than we have ever had. It also allows us to make it more powerful through images or video. It even allows us to find great organizations that our kids can help support like XDRTB.org.
More importantly we need our kids to learn how to use the tools around them to act as change agents to make their world a better place.
Change or Die | Fast Company
But many patients could avoid the return of pain and the need to repeat the surgery -- not to mention arrest the course of their disease before it kills them -- by switching to healthier lifestyles. Yet very few do. "If you look at people after coronary-a
YouTube - Learning to Change-Changing to Learn
Learning to Change Changing to Learn Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN) Video
21st Century Learning: 9 Principles for Implementation: The Big Shift
Geared to a leadership audience on principles for implementing change.
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
Kevin Honeycutt: Many of my days are spent in schools discussing the best ways to attack the problem of change and getting good teachers to embrace it in positive ways. It's not easy! Anyone who has been involved in change knows that even well adjusted people struggle with change. I know that anyone that tells you that there is an approach that always works or a system that can't fail is selling something and that each district, school and classroom will have it's own unique recipe that works best for them. That being said, I must recommend the book: Influencer : The Power to Change Anything. I am actually on my second "listen" of the audio version I got from audible.com and I'd have to say that if you are in the position of driving change it might become your best friend in short order.
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy | For Land, Liberty, Jobs and Justice
NPR : Howard Gardner, 'Changing Minds'
Guests: Howard Gardner *Author of Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing our own and other People's Mind *Professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education *Senior director of the Harvard Project Zero
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