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 [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
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 [...]
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 [...]
