I love podcasts. I work at the herbarium, doing a variety of things, but 98% percent of it is done alone, somewhere in this large, windowless warehouse. To pass the time, I listen to a lot of podcasts. I commonly listen to This American Life, You Look Nice Today, the Moth, and Radiolab. They’re all wonderful for different reasons, but the reason I love Radiolab is because I learn so much and it helps me to grow and understand things differently.
In search of similarly illuminating content, I searched for TEDtalks on iTunes today – short presentations on Technology, Entertainment and Design [TED], given at an annual conference dedicated to “ideas worth spreading.” Although it’s an invitation only conference, the videos of the presentations are available online & I suspected they also had the audio-only podcast version available as well. They did! So I downloaded 20 of them! [To start with.]
This morning I listened to on of these presentations by Howard Rheingold, the author of Smart Mobs, the book I just ordered yesterday. He gives a history of collective mobilization and collaboration and cooperation, which benefits us personally, economically and in many other ways. You can listen/watch here. It’s just 19 minutes and will give you a lot to think about. He mentioned grid computing as an example of this new type of collaboration – a project I recently joined.
I love learning and thinking about new ways to expand and improve collaboration and I’m especially interested in what role archives and records can play in this. I think it’s a new, but important, role. I can’t wait to tackle these new problems and wrestle out new solutions that can improve our lives. [I dream big!]
I love this quote and it’s so relevant for me [& many I know] right now:
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. – W. Clement Stone
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, 12:29 pm | 
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