Marvin Hall, a brilliant young Jamaican who has devoted himself to teaching young Jamaicans robotics, sent me a link to video describing his project, which is up to #84 on YOUTUBE top favorites in category for today. As Marvin says, “giddyup!”
way to go marvin!
eon
Marvin Hall, a brilliant young Jamaican who has devoted himself to teaching your Jamaicans robotics, sent me a link to video describing his project which is up to #84 on YOUTUBE. As Marvin says, “giddyup!”
hey berkman center, thanks for the singing telegram for Al the Alien
Kevin Wallen
to me
I feel as the though the creator is always talking to me. I woke up this morning feeling like I had to come into the office early and I did, as I turned on my computer I saw that Charley was online and I said hi, he said hay and I proceeded to tell him like I always do what was on my mind. He allowed me to pour my guts out and as usual I could feel the care in his words as they came back through the screen at me. Charley doesn’t believe in fixing a situation he believes in solving a problem and that is what I like about him his ability to come up with real solutions. After speaking about me he asked me if I could take some bad news from him I then replied that I was here to share with him the good and otherwise. It was then that he told me he was in the hospital and right away all my troubles seem so far away and all I can see now is my need to support him. He says his blood pressure is through the roof and also that he needs to run a series of test, ekg that kind of thing.
And as I am sitting here I feel a renewed sense of purpose, I feel as thought Charley and I are the only two who understands this thing we are trying to do. He sees me as his partner to make it happen and I see him as my partnere to make it happen.
Charley I want you to forget about all I said to you this morning and hear what I am sayin to you now. Destiny will remain as it is needed to strenghten and support SET. We have some projects on the table that will put us exactly where we want to be, the conference, the concert, and the tour in April are exactly what we need and we are going to make them happen. I will write a letter to richard requesting a larger sum of the money they have for me and that will loosen the noose a little. I want you to know that you need not worry about the Jamaica project we are going to make it happen. And come april 16, 17, 18 we will show the caribbean the power of SET. Think thoughts of seeing everything you have ever envisioned for the Jamaica project coming alive and know that it is going to happen.
You and I will take the massage of rehabilitation, restorative justice, and a country re constuting itself to the next level that’s our mission. Lets accomplish it.
I’ll be talking to you soon
i stood yesterday before the librarians of harvard, with kevin wallen and gile campbell looking on. my message was well received. postcards to pass the message on. destiny productions to deliver on a contract. roberto mighty, videographer. in my kitchen thursday morning listening to bob seger sing turn the page. out there in public expression space with microphone held low in my hand, talking to interested smiles and nods and understanding that we are building our environment. wonderful email back from michael maltese asking me for links to entrepreneurs in developing countries who are using technology to benefit their community in some fashion, with a closing ps that made me smile.
ps: As an attendee of the 1998 HLS Cyberlaw conference, I can attest to how far the Berkman Center has come so quickly, such that now it is internationally renowned as a center for excellence in the study of the internet and society.
smile
then this morning raw flow from kevin, who is in cambridge visiting with gile to plan our conference and concert in jamaica, kingston, at the terra nova, april 16-17 if the date clears on the commissioner’s calendar. notes from the meeting:
restorative justice
need for a paradigm shift in approach to crime
seeing the shift as the same as is needed in education
seeing opportunity for the correctional service to produce it completely consistent with its mission
seeing how doing so can elevate the status of the service and the officers in it
seeing the key as the formation of a self-perpetuating cohort of human beings at bottom who see that mutual support of each other in a spiritually centered learning community is key to standing tall instead of begging and complaining
make the system work and look good
keys are: no warder is asked to do “extra” work without extra pay
warders are security officers, security their primary mission; consistent with this mission provide a secure framework within which a learning community among those restrained can form and thrive
here’s kevin:
I pride myself in trying to do the right thing, but I know sometimes my desire to do the right thing gets the better of me. I want so badly to see a difference in the world that sometimes I put everything else a side and try to accomplish that and sometimes that is to my detriment.
The preogram SET has come to mean more to me than I even emagined it would mean however it is one of the most powerful things and it has brought homw a lot of things for me. It is said the the man that has not found something for which he would die perhaps has not sufficient reasons to live. For me SET is the thing for which I would die, but at the same time I don’t to die for it I can live for it, to do it, to make it happen. And each day that I live I think I am that much closer to achieving the goals setforth by SET even though the pieces are still coming into place.
Each year I visit Harvard law school and more than anything a man who has become my friend, mentor and partner is this project Charley. The intention is always to explore some idea to do someething that would get us closer to acieving our goals and each year we do that and then some. For me each year when we get together its most amazing, not because I get to come to harvard and speak and hang out but because I get an opportunity to see people who are succesful and It is a part of their lives they are succesful and they expect to be succesful, not a group of people who are dreaming of making thngs happen but they are actrually making it happen and it is not a big deal. When they get together it is not about trying to make something happen they are making them happen.
I listened to Charley talk to a young man today who was planning a confrence and the confidence in which he spoke was amazing there was no dowt that this was going to happen as a matter of fact it seems as though all the pieces were already in place and they are just executing even thought he was just at the planning stage. The key however was how charged the entire environment was everyone was working on a project, but the key was everyone was expected to be succesful everyone was expected to win. And indirectly the environment itself was an amazing support.
I got to thinking that this kind of thing is the very thing that was missing from many of the environments that I see in Jamaica every day people are not expected to win and as a result they do not expect others to win. It is a big deal when someone accomplish something amazing, success does not seem to be the norm. there seem to be more pretence among us than anything else. We don’t support each other and success seems to elude us, the environment is charged with negativity and that seems ok because we don’t seem to know any better.
A medicore environment says if something good happens great, but if it doesn’t then oh well next time. At the Berkman Centre you are not forced to win you are expected to win you are expected to be succesful and somehow the environment supports that.
For the longest time I have wondered what I want the SET environment to look like and now I know. I want it to look like success I want it to be an environment where the people in it are expected to win, where success is not a surprise, it is the norm.
And now Charley I want to talk directly to you. Your role in my life is still been revealed to me each and every day. I learn so much from you it is amazing, it is what you say and what you don’t say. It is the way you walk and the way you sit. You walk with a rythim and you sit in thought, always shaking your head and leaning forward when you are ingaged in conversation. Ther is no thought ever of you not having an interest and this week I have observed you a little more than usual as a result of something you said. You told us about speaking one third and let the other person speak two thirds you also talked about the fact that we always over estimate what others contribute to a dispute and under estimate what we contribute. And thought I tried to put that into practice this week I saw on three ocassions when you began to say something I piped up and you never finished your thought and as I realized what I was doing I tried to stop myself and get you back into the zone to finish your statement it seems the moment had passed and I missed the message I might have gotten from your message which makes me wonder how many times have I done that before this week. This is a most wonderful lesson and one that will serve me well.
I told you have my financial issues and it pains me deeply to come to you but I feel like you are the one person in this world that I can trust to tell what I am going through and somethimes its not that I want you to help me sometimes I really just want to share with womeone and you are all I seem to have that I can do that with. But the solutions you always seem to come up with are always fantastic the thought of being able to have \Harvard as a client for destiny is wonderful and I so appreciate you pointing this out. And again you said something which I too will use in my every day life which if you want to help someone out a handout is never the answer, a loan too, is not the answer but if you can develop a business relationship whe the person that seems to be the way to go and I so appreciate that thank you.
Finally tonight I went to the talk that professor Ogletree put on and first of all it was great but it was not the talk that was so great. I went to dinner with the folks after and there was about thirty persons in the room all black folks all professionasl mostly Judges and Lawyers. When we went around the table and each person introduced themselves it seem to go from strenght to strenght. And then I was asked to speak a bit on the Jamaica project and I did which sparked an amazing conversation but what strucked me in all that is at the end Prof. Ogletree spoke of a time in 1921 when a group of black folks wanted someone to come and address then at harvard and the person that they got to speak was Marcus Garvey when he said that I felt so proud I felt that I was the marcus grvey today bringing with me from jamaica the message of Students Expressing Truth, a message of love, a message of hope, a message of self love,self reliance and a message of hope.
I think we take lightly what we are up to but Charley, we are on to something and I really want to thank you. And I promise you whatever I have to do to keep Destiny going I will because it is an intregual part of all this. It is the production house that produces this story. I way all that to simply say thank you and lets do this. This trip has been most wonderful. Thank you and I can’t say that enough
i see a direction in which we are going.
Hi Professor-
I’m going to post this link on the wiki as well, but I just wanted to
make sure you saw that New World Notes, a blog/news agency for Second
Life, has posted a story about our mock trial:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/01/mixed_up_realit.html#more
Also, when are your office hours this semester?
Thanks!
Ken
the following from my email out, for reasons which will appear. i wish i could give it to you in gmail format but my digital skills are not yet sufficient.
Charles Nesson
to undisclosed-re., hulsearc, (bcc:Jonathan), (bcc:William), (bcc:Charles), (bcc:Stuart)
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i recommend juan carlos de martin.
i celebrate sid verba for leading harvard into the digital age
juan carlos will be at the berkman center noon til 2 on february 5, 2007. members of your search committee are warmly invited to meet him.
i should say in explanation of this email appearing on my eon blog that in hitting reply_all i get a cc to undisclosed-recipients, which made me smile but also think that gmail code would not let it go out like that, and so precious did it seem that eon blog became just another way to get a message through, and steve i was not sure who is at the other end of hulsearch@camail
eon
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On 1/25/07, Steven E. Hyman wrote:
Dear Colleagues and Friends:
Please see below a letter I sent in December seeking your input on the search for a new director of the Harvard University Library. The search committee has begun its work in earnest, so I would like to renew my invitation to you for suggestions of candidates.
Any communications received are treated confidentially by me unless they contain an explicit request that they be shared with the committee.
Sincerely,
Steve Hyman
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Dear Colleagues and Friends:
As you know, Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, has announced his intention to retire at the end of this academic year. As we begin our search for the next director of the University Library, I write to share with you information about the search process and to solicit your views on the needs of the Library, the qualities we should seek in a new director, and particular candidates.
A search advisory committee, consisting of faculty members as well as the College and Law School Librarians, will have its first meeting in January and will continue to meet throughout the winter and spring until a new director is named.
I am grateful to the following individuals who have accepted the invitation to serve on this committee: Peter Bol, Nancy Cline, Kathleen M. Coleman, Nancy Cott, Farish Jenkins, Harry (Terry) Martin, Dan Moriarty, Charles Rosenberg, Nancy Rosenblum, Diana Sorensen, Lloyd Weinreb, and Christoph Wolff.
Identifying the best possible director is an important priority for the University, and President Bok and I expect to devote considerable energy and attention to the process. We would greatly appreciate hearing from you with regard to the future of the University Library and individuals we should consider for the directorship. Please submit comments to hul_search@harvard.edu. You should also feel free to be in touch directly with Clayton Spencer and Stephanie Gumble in the President’s Office (617-495-9090), who will be helping me in staffing the search.
With all best wishes,
Steven E. Hyman
Kevin Wallen (Destiny Productions) says:
hi
charley says:
hi
Kevin Wallen (Destiny Productions) says:
just got back from a meeting at dcs
charley says:
yes
Kevin Wallen (Destiny Productions) says:
we’ve got a radio station
Kevin Wallen (Destiny Productions) says:
88.5fm
charley says:
!!!!!!
Kevin Wallen (Destiny Productions) says:
the radio network is a go
charley says:
let’s not waste a minute
a pleasant surprise when showing my friend stuart cyberone, i googled “cyberone” and it came up first. previously for me i’ve had to look below an australian company.
here’s a cross post from cyberone wiki
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From CyberOne Wiki
Welcome to the CyberOne Course Wiki!
january 26
nesson here:
yesterday in new york, seeing stuart sucherman, fred friendly’s producer, thinking of him now as i type these words, listening to bob seger and his lady sing the answer is the question. when trust is almost broken, stuart sitting before me heavy and distracted telling me the course of his success. told him my sex life with fern was great. he thanked me for telling him and went on. then stuart shieber on a bench with twenty minutes before our meeting with y.s.chi, stuart with a question wanting to listen for an answer. sitting on the bench with stuart i sketched the comic version of the two of us knights emmisary from the lord of education coming to engage the lord of content, and so the vision played out. then in our meeting probing, probing. the thrill is in the chase. y.s. off the record, conor there to witness, with his permission i would tell it all, let you listen to a conversation between the chairman of our provost’s committee on scholarly publication and the strategist for reed elsivier, vice chairman y.s.chi. (ys, with your permission which i would ask you to indicate if you are willing by editing this wiki to show your assent and participation. conor, please. indeed, instead of me writing to you about the substance of our meeting and next steps i would greatly appeciate you writing me and here with your understanding. i have suggested to my students in cyberone and evidence that they might like to come along on the adventure of exploring articulation and moderation of our university’s most engaging questions.)
conversation between stuart shieber an y.s.chi put me in mind of our cyberone conversation, mike fricklas and wayne marshall speaking to each other across the copyright divide, which puts me in mind of aaron brooks lovely project, and my hope to catch sucherman’s interest in bringing fred friendly seminars alive again in the university world of second life.
will we be able to do this as a course for credit at harvard law school, that is my question to answer today. may we do it, becca and scott and colin and rob and phil and all as berkman center clinical program, affirmative engagement with the medium. but first i have to get my grades in.
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Rebecca Nesson
Rebecca: are you there?
Sent at 1:10 PM on Friday
Rebecca did not receive your chat.
Sent at 1:33 PM on Friday
Rebecca: hey
you there?
me: YES
Rebecca: hey, good.
so it seems like bad news about the clinical program.
would it work if we choose actual SL disputes and find people who are willing to have their disputes arbitrated by our court?
me: I JUST SPOKE WITH Ms. dealy
Rebecca: oh, ok.
me: told her that we are representing clients in the court of public opinion
josh wolf…
me: the california legislator
yes, wolf
and dj drama
Rebecca: did that help?
me: yes, she wants to consult with her committee
which i totally encouraged
todd rakoff
Rebecca: can she do that fast enough?
also, i think they will probably say no.
me: yes, but we need to give her a description
at least in outline form
specifically the links to the three project sites
Rebecca: ok, we can do that.
me: exactly
Rebecca: is email an ok medium for that?
does she want a description of how the course will run? probably.
me: it is doing a moot court, and writing the open after, and doing the research and the cogitating before hand
Rebecca: i will write a description for you.
with links.
and send it to you.
then you can edit it and send it to her.
me: working in groups in sycopation between real classroom activity and the expression of it the following week in virtual, and vice versa
Rebecca: what is the course title that you are going with?
me: mmm
here
choose among
Rebecca: trial practice in teh court of public opinion?
me: yesterday i googled cyberone and it came up first on google
had a great visit to ny yesterday with stuart
Sent at 1:49 PM on Friday
me: we can take our class on a clincal exploration of the reed elsevier world of content lords, futher to the fricklas/marshall panel and the project of aaron brooks
go to meet dj drama
Rebecca: ok, stay on the ground here.
we need to write this description and get it approved first.
me: exactly
Rebecca: let me work on that and send it to you.
me: and i love you
mega much
Rebecca: i love you too.
me: :
james bradley thayer writes about the a law of super heroes
james bradley thayer
teacher of evidence
My student Jay Hook tells me:
Thayer’s talk, “Trial by Jury of Things Supernatural” was originally giving
to a ‘dining group’, then published in Atlantic Monthly (April, 1890, Vol. 65,
p. 465). Later it was one of the articles in Ezra Ripley Thayer (ed) Legal
Essays (Boston, 1908).
In the paper, J.B. Thayer reports two trials from the 1600’s in England and
Scotland which put down the legal foundation for the Salem witch trials over
here. In each, jurors were asked to decide whether young women’s afflictions
were caused by the supernatural machinations of people called witches.
Thayer’s concern is the extent to which judges do or should control the
information going to the jurors. He points out that the law of England at that
time explicitly recognized the supernatural as ‘real’, a fact that made the
non-believing judge’s task a bit more complicated than it would be today (i.e.
in 1890). Also, at that time the jury’s decision on the facts was final
whether they acquitted (like now) or convicted (not like now), at least in
criminal cases.
thayer is a “realist” as the “word” is canonized by david kennedy and terry fisher
what is the true meaning of this word
what the core idea
My student Steve Kalnoki tells me that in “On Truth and Lies in the Non-Moral Sense” Neitzsche says:
“Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases — which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal. Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept “leaf” is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. [. . .] What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions- they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.”
what happens when marvel comics comes to harvard
who would be curious enough to participate in this venture
Courage i want to you to help me offer a new form of learning. here's my lecture outline. for liz wallen 0. 0pencourseware I. the I in MIT II. Modern Liberty III. The third side of the NECKER CUBE iiii. YOU ) freedom from grades, change paradyme to group work, jsb - a new way of teaching EVIDENCE : PROOF OF TRUTH :- three hats from scratch -: help me write a new casebook for ramsi :-) help me put across pass fail for brianne -:) help me help kevin to save gail ortega and reconstitute jamaica second thoughts outline for our new casebook meetings next week with reed elsivier meet february 5 at the berkman center meet tonight in second life meet tomorrow in croquet we speak for university not just HAAVARD MARVARD MIT for INTERNET & SOCIETY eon d of c third thoughts open grading, let them see it as it goes along, pitch in, why not talk about it in the medium what does it mean to be an artist to be a connoisieur to paint in your medium one dimension up means at our disposal four days free groups already formed students behind us who have done great work and learned a lot learning and digital skills in our hands understanding the force we are up against in the battle of good and evil which side are WE on, declare it now, duncan kennedy's warning we are on the side of good wanting to understand evil how do we do it knowing that both is in US should we hear the words of dersh and chomsky we are what we feel we think we are what we infer from what comes into us i&i the square root of minus one for e thoughts 4fern law and emotion for matt and becca and david and elizabeth and all on odessey for alex and diane youtube socrates eon i'd like to take you on an adventure with me a berkman clinical program to raise the google question to solve the problem of funding croquet to make peace with the lords of content to learn to use cyber as learning space by teaching recursive empathic argument good programming programming good engaging new in story told in code and lived in real organize a network of empathic english speakers to translate al jazeera to america and a structure to constrain their work to product with a neutral pov frame and mount a challenge to the wiki world we can help each other do what it is we want to do join and share our passion lesson plan for today january 15, 2007 TESTIFY what does it mean to testify what does it mean to put your testimonial capacity in EVIDENCE joel shellhammer how bout a field trip to aquinah some time in the spring ruth friendly, fred friendly, Internet & Society, use of the question tool he wanted to make peace using this method in his business, and to a great extent he did, but then went on to get seduced by entertainment ultimately turning the method into a bore the clip from ogletree so today, january 18, 7:59 am i feel you will love each other may i have your permission to share my morning thoughts you have here in audio once i link it in i want to go no farther in my lesson plan before recursion :
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