Boston public television station WGBH has started to do what many people long for TV stations and related entities everywhere to do: chop up their archives into short video clips and make them findable online. Open Vault boasts a growing library of clips, mostly from the ’70s. Quick picks:
Nam June Paik’s “9/23″
Featuring the Paik-Abe [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Once You Open the Vault It Ceases to Be a Vault
November 26 07
Sample-Spotting McLuhan
November 17 07
Books sampled in Marshall McLuhan’s War and Peace in the Global Village (1968):
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Codebreakers by David Kahn
The Senses by Otto Lowenstein
Theories of Personality by Calvin S. Hall and Gardner Lindzey
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
The Human Revolution by Ashley Montagu
Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White
Oliver Cromwell by John [...]
Getting Into the School of Everything
November 12 07
The School of Everything is one of the better ideas I’ve heard for a startup in the last ten years: connecting would-be teachers with would-be students. They want to make it extremely easy to find people near you who can help you learn whatever it is you want to learn. If you think of all [...]