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Wired: All the world's an MIT campus. This strikes me as a wonderful and astonishing project: MIT's OpenCourseWare, as described in
All the world's an MIT campus:
Over the next decade, the university will post lecture notes, assignments, syllabi, tutorials, video simulations and reading lists from over 2,000 courses on the site . . .
"Our goal is open knowledge," said Jon Paul Potts, OCW communications manager. "We're really trying to buck the trend of commercialization of knowledge and start the trend of sharing knowledge around the world."
Is this openness a turnaround for the institution Richard Stallman had to leave in 1984 to avoid the possibility that MIT "could have imposed their own distribution terms, or even turned [GNU] into a proprietary software package"? (as described here).
In any case, I applaud MIT's openness now. Times change, leadership changes, people change, hallelujah.
2:44:19 PM | See also mit opencourseware gnu
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Salon: Clinton addresses the British Labor Party on world interdependence. What a magnificent speech! Bill Clinton addresses the British Labor Party in Blackpool, England, as recorded in What should the world do about Saddam? (but which is about much more than Saddam).
What I admire most about Bill is he provides a vision for America and the world that I can see and get behind. (In contrast, George & Co. provide a one-day-at-a-time lack-of-vision for America and the world that just chills my soul. Where there is no vision, after all, people perish.)
I especially like this quote--essentially the theme of the speech--"we [the world] must move from interdependence to integration because our common humanity matters more than our interesting differences and makes the expression of those differences possible."
12:55:11 PM | See also clinton bush
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