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An oldie but goodie (via @yeleazy). On the importance of play: "The opposite of play isn't work, it's depression." #PlayLeadsToProgression

Neva Leona Boyd (* Sanborn, Iowa February 25 1876, † Chicago, November 21 1963) founded the Recreational Training School at the Hull House in Chicago. The school taught a one-year educational program in group games, gymnastics, dancing, dramatic arts, play theory, and social problems. She was on the faculty of Northwestern University as a sociologist from 1927 to 1941.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Copeau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Gide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Gide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eagleman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varela http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Spolin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Huizinga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Guattari http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Turner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_T._Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Oliveros http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cytowic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_R._Galloway http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css/profiles/Adrian-Mackenzie/Sociology/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Agamben http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Massumi

I heard this on NPR as I was driving and couldn't help but think of this week's reading from Smart Mobs. The text discusses the role that cooperation plays in human society, that if we were designed to spread out genes without regard to others, that cooperation would have been "bred out" generations ago. This story shows that cooperation, or at least social interaction based on valuing the needs and goals of others, does seem to be uniquely human. Networked collaboration isn't the result of technology - it's the result of basic humanity.

Sebastian Thrun on MOOCs

Coursera is a that exactly. I am even taking a similar class to our own right now. https://class.coursera.org/sna-2012-001/class/index

KeyWorx was an extensible application framework that has been under development at Waag Society for a number of years. KeyWorx started its life as KeyStroke, a tool set with main focus on the performing arts. It has been renamed in 2003 due to trademark issues, and in time has gained much wider applicability.