"The movie musical has not so much died as migrated"

- A.O. Scott on Bollywood (a very enthusiastic piece)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/16/movies/16BOLL.html?pagewanted=1

Call Me E-Mail: The Novel Unfolds Digitally
By ADAM BAER
Published: April 15, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/15/technology/circuits/15nove.html

"...[Eric] Brown, 59, calls "Intimacies" a digital epistolary novel, or DEN, terms that he has trademarked.... The story unfolds through e-mail messages, instant-message conversations and Web sites, all within a window generated by the DEN software..."

The article goes on to talk about other versions of new media storytelling.

Stoppard's Eight Lords A-Leaping - review in NYTimes of his play "Jumpers." Why can't they mount a production of Arcadia???

A friend pointed me to fray.com, which is a short story site. I didn't look at any of the stories necessarily, but saw some interesting looking links, like this one:

Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/index.html

Libraries with blogs
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/index.shtml?links.html

The Shifted Librarian
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/

J'adore [faire] le service de référence! (mm wonder if that's the right term. Bibliotheque Mazarine says so, but that's a sample of one...)

C'est un beau jour a Ann Arbor (et ce n'est pa ma faute, l'absence des accents ici... the keyboard shortcuts don't work and I ain't gonna figure out how to do them otherwise) - ou c'etait un beau jour... maintenant le soleil se cache... aargh quelle horreur, mon francais

Anyways, in honour of Easter weekend, an article from Slate magazine:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2098553/

Il est toujours interessant, what the world has to say...

Bah. Bo-ring. Look at February. Lots more fun stuff then.

Questions people asked that made me think:

"So, what did you learn?"
- Faculty person (actually 2 of them, one after the other; the first two people I saw and was 'reporting back' to after my trip and after I'd heard the results)

"What major changes in your life have you seen, or how have you changed, in the last 2 years since you've been here at SI?"
- Jay Jackson (not quoted verbatim), interview question today - I was doing a video interview for some promo CD they are doing for the School

Also, prior to the trip, when I'd first heard about it, and was telling whoever, they asked "So, is this the ideal job?"

I have answers to these questions now... but of course, I'm not going to post them here :) (Or maybe I will, later. Right now I have a business plan to edit.)

Reflect - for literacy and more

"Reflect is a diverse & innovative approach to adult learning and social change, used by over 350 organisations in 60 countries. It has been used to tackle a wide range of issues, from peace & reconciliation in Burundi, to community forestry in Nepal and holding government accountable in El Salvador....

Groups develop their own learning materials by constructing maps, calendars, matrices, and diagrams or using drama, story-telling and songs to capture social, economic, cultural and political issues from their own environment. "

From ActionAid Education site

Official site
http://www.reflect-action.org/

Reflect and ICTs
http://217.206.205.24/Initiatives/ict/home.htm

Creative Commons - Get Content has links to places that provide content, among them Open Photo:

http://openphoto.net

Creative Commons - interesting. To look at later perhaps.

e.g. "Writers' and Bloggers' Corner
Do you want people to redistribute your stories, articles, and web writing widely, as long as they give you credit?
Do you mind if people copy your stuff, so long as they don't make money off it?
Do you like the idea of other people making new works based on yours — provided they offer those derivations back to the public on the same terms?
Do you want to help create and have access to a pool of royalty-free writing?"

http://creativecommons.org/learn/artistscorners/writers

Other stuff for today:
Gadget http://snipurl.com
Also TinyURL
tools to truncate URLs