Posted by Peter Karlberg
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:16:02 GMT
Olympic Games should permanently be held in Sweden (Blogge Bloggelito regeringsblogg): “As Gert Gelotte so eloquently puts it, it is certainly no secret that Communist China is a Communist dictatorship, that Tibet is occupied and that ethnic minorities in China are oppressed – in fact, every single one of the fifty-five minorities that coexist with the Han Chinese majority group are oppressed, for instance by letting them be fruitful and multiply to the extent that they grow seven times faster than the majority group – clearly a measure of genocide. As for Tibet, every nation in the world, including the United Nations, recognize that Tibet is and always was a free and sovereign nation, a lost paradise that had its magnificent culture devastated by the brutal Communist oppressors. This is according to the trustworthy Tibetan gubmint in exile in India, the true and legitimate ruling body of Tibet which we credit for their independent statistics of casualties in Tibet, ranging in the hundreds or thousands or even millions – we don’t really know – over the last week.”
Although there is a possibility to have some objections, Blogges ironic piece on having the Olympic Games permantly in Sweden is really something to think about. Categoriesed as fun:-)
Posted in Politik, Kul, Utrikespolitik, In english, Yttrandefrihet, Demokrati | Tags Blogge Bloggelito, China, Communist, Olympic Games, Tibet | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Peter Karlberg
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:34:21 GMT
Aqurette.com: Bourgeois Pigs: “The Swedish Social Democratic Party has bought the domain name “borgarsvin.se”, Björn Pedersen reports. “Borgarsvin” is a pejorative word and an insulting epithet often used by hardcore communists. It derives from the term Bourgeoisie, which is synonymous with “middle class” and found in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.”
(Found by knuff.se.)
It is interesting to see that the bourgeois lackeys now round up to attack the so far not confirmed social democratic registration of the domain borgarsvin.se. So far we only know that the domain points to the IP-address of the social democratic party and that the owner of the domain is Thomas Söderlund (who is so far unknown).
As you of course would expect these lackeys don´t no a thing about marxism. They cant even read! Agurette thinks bourgeois is middle class. From Wikipedia (captured on Februari 29th 2008) I give you a pretty good piece about the marxist view:
One of the most influential of the aforementioned criticisms came from Karl Marx, who attacked bourgeois political theory and its view of civil society and culture for believing these concepts and institutions to be universally true; in Marx’s view, these concepts were only the ideology of the bourgeoisie as a new ruling class, which sought to reshape society after its own image.[citation needed]
Marxism defines the bourgeoisie as the social class which obtains income from ownership or trade in capital assets, or from commercial activities such as the buying and selling of commodities, wares, and services. In medieval times, the bourgeois was typically a self-employed proprietor, small employer, entrepreneur, banker, or merchant. In industrial capitalism, on the other hand, the bourgeoisie becomes the ruling class - which means it also owns the bulk of the means of production (land, factories, offices, capital, resources) as well as the means of coercion (national armed forces, prison systems, court systems). Ownership of the means of production enables it to employ and exploit the work of a large mass of wage workers (the working class), also known as the industrial middle class, who have no other means of livelihood than to sell their labour to property owners; while control over the means of coercion allows intervention during challenges from below.[1]
By the way, of course it happens that social democrats in Sweden sometimes play a little dirty - it´s sort of comes with the game. For anyone interested it could perhaps be a good idea to study the bourgeoise lackeys campaigns against social democratic party leaders especially from Olof Palme and onwards. You know - from pretty innocent remarks to celebrating the anniversary of the murder of Olof Palme.
Posted in Politik, In english, Högeralliansen, Socialdemokraterna | Tags Agurette, Bourgeoisie, Karl Marx, Lackeys, Marxism | 2 comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Peter Karlberg
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:34:21 GMT
Aqurette.com: Bourgeois Pigs: “The Swedish Social Democratic Party has bought the domain name “borgarsvin.se”, Björn Pedersen reports. “Borgarsvin” is a pejorative word and an insulting epithet often used by hardcore communists. It derives from the term Bourgeoisie, which is synonymous with “middle class” and found in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.”
(Found by knuff.se.)
It is interesting to see that the bourgeois lackeys now round up to attack the so far not confirmed social democratic registration of the domain borgarsvin.se. So far we only know that the domain points to the IP-address of the social democratic party and that the owner of the domain is Thomas Söderlund (who is so far unknown).
As you of course would expect these lackeys don´t no a thing about marxism. They cant even read! Agurette thinks bourgeois is middle class. From Wikipedia (captured on Februari 29th 2008) I give you a pretty good piece about the marxist view:
One of the most influential of the aforementioned criticisms came from Karl Marx, who attacked bourgeois political theory and its view of civil society and culture for believing these concepts and institutions to be universally true; in Marx’s view, these concepts were only the ideology of the bourgeoisie as a new ruling class, which sought to reshape society after its own image.[citation needed]
Marxism defines the bourgeoisie as the social class which obtains income from ownership or trade in capital assets, or from commercial activities such as the buying and selling of commodities, wares, and services. In medieval times, the bourgeois was typically a self-employed proprietor, small employer, entrepreneur, banker, or merchant. In industrial capitalism, on the other hand, the bourgeoisie becomes the ruling class - which means it also owns the bulk of the means of production (land, factories, offices, capital, resources) as well as the means of coercion (national armed forces, prison systems, court systems). Ownership of the means of production enables it to employ and exploit the work of a large mass of wage workers (the working class), also known as the industrial middle class, who have no other means of livelihood than to sell their labour to property owners; while control over the means of coercion allows intervention during challenges from below.[1]
By the way, of course it happens that social democrats in Sweden sometimes play a little dirty - it´s sort of comes with the game. For anyone interested it could perhaps be a good idea to study the bourgeoise lackeys campaigns against social democratic party leaders especially from Olof Palme and onwards. You know - from pretty innocent remarks to celebrating the anniversary of the murder of Olof Palme.
Posted in Politik, In english, Högeralliansen, Socialdemokraterna | Tags Agurette, Bourgeoisie, Karl Marx, Lackeys, Marxism | 2 comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Peter Karlberg
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:35:00 GMT
Institute of Education University of London
The Institute is the venue for the SC36 March 2007 workgroup and plennary meeting. This Sunday I have spent in workgroup 4 on Management and Delivery. Behind this title the work on MLR - Metadata for Learning Resources. The discussion so far has been to some extend focused on questions about the framework - but a little to much on the structure of the document and details.
Now - at the end of the day - the discussion moved towards more interesting things. What is the purpose of MLR, what should be mandatory, should anything be mandatory, which are the real value MLR can bring to the learning community.
Can you be conformant to MLR without using some mandatory MLR-element? For leagacy systems which uses other schemas perhaps the use of MLR would be just to add the specific learning information, not nessesary any mandatory, from MLR. This would suggest the “user” to create an application profile which consists of their legacy schema and part of MLR.
More on my
weblog.
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Posted by Peter Karlberg
Tue, 16 May 2006 08:23:17 GMT
The study we (together with the ministries/agencies in Denmark, Norway and Finland and performed by Rambøll) recently published has now been granted some attention at the European level. There is now an article published at Insight.
E-learning Nordic 2006 - Uncovering the Impact of ICT on Education in the Nordic Countries: “ICT has a positive impact on the schools’ overall target
E-learning Nordic 2006 shows that ICT has a positive impact on the schools’ overall target – improving the pupils’ learning. However, the study also shows that the full potential of ICT is not being fully realized in many schools. Teachers are mostly focused on using ICT to support the subject content. Still, a positive impact of ICT on teaching is also seen on pupil engagement, differentiation, creativity and less waste of time. The study also shows that the preconditions for using ICT for knowledge sharing, communication and school-home co-operation are at hand, and ICT is indeed being used for this in many schools. However the positive impact of this is as yet only moderate.”
(från Insight.)
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Posted by Peter Karlberg
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:43:05 GMT
Bildt Comments: Something Rotten in the State of Sweden (4): “Legal cases were opened - with considerable publicity associated with them - against three prominent representatives of the party.
The first is against no lesser person than Prime Minister Göran Persson himself.
For the time after he is Prime Minister he is busy building a rather impressive manor house in the countryside south of Stockholm. It is obviously more feudal than proletarian in inspiration. That fact in itself has been the subject of lots of comments.
But it now turns out that the building works - done by a firm run by his brother - has not been respecting elementary parts of the legislation for the protection and safety of the workers. And infringements are so serious that he will now be prosecuted for the violations of the law.
Needless to say, these laws are a key part of what the Social Democrats consider their contribution to a good society.
In my opinion, the case says more about the complicated laws than it says about the Prime Minister, but that’s not necessarily the way the media sees it.”
(från Bildt Comments.)
Interesting. I found earlier the comment from Bildt about the Palestine issue (or rather the absurd EU policy towards the democratically selected Palestine government) and that lead me to this comment about mr Persson - our Prime Minister. To my surprise I do agree with mr Bildt on both these issues!
I am sorry to say that despite beeing a social democrat myself mr Bildt is right about how we with good intentions made our legislation to complicated. This is not just the case only with the regulation protecting the safety of workers, its the same with for example the legislation about serving alcohol and running restaurants.
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Posted by Peter Karlberg
Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:10:33 GMT
Connecting European Learning Resources: “Last week I was at a “Learning Resource Exchange Seminar” aranged by the European Schoolnet (EUN) . The seminar gave a good overview of a couple of the European projects lead by EUN . A good summary of the seminar is avaliable at Norwegian eStandard . Only in Norwegian I am afraid.
At the seminar we presented the Fire system to which we have now connected SCAM . This means that SCAM-based archives can participate in Learning Resource exchange through Fire. The presentation was held by David Massart, Sylvia Hartinger and me. I think it went quite well..”
(från frepa.)
Jag var också där och kan bekräfta att presentationen gick mycket bra. Särskilt imponerande var det att se Frepa lägga till en resurs i det svensak arkivet som sedan via en Fire-sökning hamnade överst i det gemensamma sökresultatet (svenska resurser kom för övrigt överst varje gång då vårt arkiv är snabbast på att svara).
Jag rekommenderar också den utmärkta rapporten från seminariet som finns på norska
eStandard.
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Posted by Peter Karlberg
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:24:04 GMT
My friend and colleague Frepa has recently made a presentation in which he explains the information- and metadata structure in ePortfolios. The presentation is available at Frepas blog in pdf-format.
Presentation of SCAM ePortfolio: “I held a presentation about SCAM ePortfolio at Umeå University today. The presentation was from a technology perspective, focusing on information- and metadata structure in ePortfolios as well as why standards are so important for interoperability and transferability. The objective was to point out that the right choice of technological architecture gives an added pedagogical value that would otherwise be lost - despite providing the wanted functionality.”
(från Frepa blog.)
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Posted by Peter Karlberg
Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:16:11 GMT
En liten smula nördigt kanske?
Music Made from Hitachi Hard-Drive Noise: “This is just hilarious! Gizmodo ran a competition where the participants were to make music with sampled sounds of failing Hitachi Hard-Drives. Selected entries listed here.
Listen to the winner: Odeo: Hitachi Hard-Drive Project - Noriko Version. Made entirely from hard drive noises!”
(från Karl Jonsson’s Weblog.)
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Posted by peter
Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:30:00 GMT
Jag prenumererar på Learning TRENDS som ges ut av Elliott Masie. Idag, den 18:e juni 2005, publicerar Elliott ett tal som Steve Jobs höll på Stanford. Talet är mycket personligt och ger tre exempel på mycket betydelsefulla händelser i Steve Jobs liv som har haft stor betydelse särskilt för Steve själv förstås men också för många andra eftersom de haft inverkan på utvecklingen inom flera områden. Bara historien om hur Steve som en drop-out började välja kurser efter intresse och "råkar välja" kalliografi vilket gör att han tio år senare bygger in den kunskapen i Macintosh är lite fascinerande. Jag publicerar Learning TRENDS i sin helhet (som ett prenumerationstips) och därmed hela Steve Jobs tal. #321 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology. 50,349 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center. Host of Learning 2005: Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Orlando, Florida. Steve Jobs Speech to Graduates - Read This! Dear Learning TRENDS Readers: (My colleague and friend, Tom Peters, just emailed me a copy of a speech that Steve Jobs delivered to the graduates of Stanford University this week. Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks —including death itself.) "I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle. My third story is about death. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes. I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now. This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much." - Steve Jobs - June 2005 Upcoming MASIE Center Events and Services: * Learning 2005 - Oct 30-Nov 2 - Orlando, Florida. * Extreme Learning LAB - July - Saratoga Springs, NY. * Membership in Learning CONSORTIUM. Information at http://www.masie.com * To DELETE yourself from this occasional list send an email to: leave-masie-trends-196895C@lister.masie.com To submit ideas, questions or topics, send to trends@masie.com If you know of others who would like to receive Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie, please direct them to http://www.masie.com/list/ for subscription information To speak to a human about list specific issues send email to lyris-admin@lister.masie.com Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie is Published by The MASIE Center, Inc. http://www.masie.com *
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