divdiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentOpenness
is as much a function of design as it is of any set of beliefs. I said
this in the UMW Blogs Story, it will frame my opened talk/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120133122 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from webbrbr /span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentheres the post, which on a re-read is a doozy: a href=http://bit.ly/ST85R rel=nofollow target=_blankhttp://bit.ly/ST85R/a/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120139462 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing going on there, which determines which? beliefs influence design/architecture or vice versa?/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120162147 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spana href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/aspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing going on there, which determines which? beliefs influence design/architecture or vice versa?/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120162147 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from webbrnbsp;br/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a or more directly, what do you see as the relationship between the two?/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120167919 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a
I think some assumptions about openness can change as the architecture
of the web does, making the design almost as important…./spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120265579 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web a href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120167919in reply to courosa/abrbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content…as the philosophy. And I think openness can sometimes be stepped into, kinda like shit./spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120272557 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentFor
example, UMw Blogs a was not so much premised on openes as a doctrine,
but rather as necessary extension of the application of education/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120289153 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentIn
other words, might we think of openness as a side effect of the new web
that has been rhetorically transformed it into it raison detre/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120397136 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web /span/spanbrbrdiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentThink
about the combustion engine, it changed the built environment of a
large part of the earth during the 20th century, scarring it deeply/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120422080 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentYet
the car remains one of the great icons of of freedom, liberty, and
individuality—a veritable culture machine that poeticizes the road/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120435328 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentHow
can the happenstance of design not come to inform all sorts of cultural
valences we couldnt predict, yet often privilege the verities/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120451113 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentOpenness
has become such a verity, and by extension has become as fraught for
co-option and commodification as the very road that enabled it/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120462210 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a
For me,my beliefs have influenced edu.design,amp; as I measure student
success attr. 2 openness,it reinforces amp; extends these beliefs/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120471751 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentHahahaha, now there are some late night tweets that no one will hear fall in the twitter forest ;)/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120474218 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=publishedabout 1 hour ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a But beliefs are conditional, and they themselves become emboldened by possibilities/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120486192 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published44 minutes ago/span/a from web a href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120471751in reply to courosa/abrbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a Or even better than that, Serendipity becomes a kind of new faith system of openness, akin to Dickenss turn to coincidence/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120506937 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published42 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a
We believe that to give back is ultimately good, and will pay
forward-promotion is the reward for sharing-theres a faith system/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120544404 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published38 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentWe
built a religion on top of design principles, from that comes a
philosophy of beneficent chance, aka serendipity-it all makes sense now/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120583547 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published34 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a
Interesting point re:Dickens/parallels,pay forward amp;
coincidence,both values indicative of particular view of society;faith
driven/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120601043 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published32 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a Forgive my indulgence-I dont get out much, And while what I said makes no sense, I just worked out a timeless theory/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120617497 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published31 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentAnd
to push forward with this idea-how do religions themselves adjust to
the design challenges of their respective eras? How does education?/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120647621 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published27 minutes ago/span/a from webbrbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentNobody tweets like the bava, NOBODY!/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120730670 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published19 minutes ago/span/a from webnbsp; brbr/span/spandiv class=listablea href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=urlimg alt=Jim Groom class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206019971/cottonmather2_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/a/divspan class=status-bodyba href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom class=screen-name title=Jim Groomjimgroom/a/bspan class=entry-contentHate to go, but I have a bunch of tweets to hang on my I love me wall, thanks @a href=http://twitter.com/courosacourosa/a :)/spanspan class=meta entry-metaa href=http://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/3120738649 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published18 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/span/spana href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=urlimg alt= Alec Couros class=photo fn src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/284918675/3038940741_53a7426654_o_normal.jpg width=48 height=48/aba href=http://twitter.com/courosa class=screen-name title= Alec Couroscourosa/a/bspan class=entry-content@a href=http://twitter.com/jimgroomjimgroom/a Its always a pleasure Jim./spana href=http://twitter.com/courosa/status/3120777728 class=entry-date rel=bookmarkspan class=published14 minutes ago/span/a from web brbr/divbr
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