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Gardner Campbell (to the Open Education Conference in Vancouver in October last year) The Ecologies of Yearning - http://openedconference.org/2012/program/archive-of-sessions/day-1/day1-9am-c300/ The talk is not about cooperation or collaboration, but about 'opening' as a way of learning. He draws heavily on Gregory Bateson's 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind' and his ideas about learning as a 'double bind' experience and transcontextual moments.

Yesterday marked the opening day of the Clinton Foundation's "Health Matters" conference in Palm Springs. I had heard a bit of advance word about the conference from a friend who was headed down there, and I had armed him with a copy of Future Perfect to give to Clinton if the opportunity arose. But the gift turned out to be unnecessary. Apparently, Clinton had just finished reading Future Perfect on his own, and spontaneously brought up a number of its arguments in an opening conversation with NBC's Nancy Snyderman. Along the way, he managed to say kind words about three other books of mine. 

"@WardCunningham suggests the feedback loop is faster with a publish-and-review strategy, rather than a review-and-publish strategy."