Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture

To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com

Monday, November 23, 2015

Roses: Lightning Talk about CC World WUaS's recent donation to CC Wikidata for its 3rd birthday on October 29th, streamed in a Google Hangout - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks - tomorrow around 11am PT at/from the Wikimedia Foundation at 149 New Montgomery, SF, Here are the slides for my Lightning Talk & and the video recording on 11/24 What WUaS donated to Wikidata

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Lightning Talk about CC World University and School's recent donation to CC Wikidata for its 3rd birthday on October 29th, streamed i...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Chrysanthemum: 4 special gifts including a companion meditation album for all pre-orders of my Actual~Virtual "Naked Harbin" Book. PRE-ORDER AT http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html, Charles, could you be the Arjuna to John's Krishna, and I the Golden Chariot (I don't know my Bhagavad Gita that well:) ... but all in relation to bringing my Harbin book to publication?

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4 special gifts including a companion meditation album for all pre-orders of my Actual~Virtual "Naked Harbin" Book.  PRE-ORDER A...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Nerium/Oleander: Document with what the goals of WUaS are, who else is working on it other than you, and in what roles; how WUaS is organized and funded; what it has done to date, Mission statement on the WUaS Foundation page, Monthly Business Meeting video, Two main blogs, CC Bulgaria World University and School, WUaS seeks to become the Harvard of the Internet, and in all ~259+ countries' main languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,938+ languages

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Hi Hristo,  Thanks very much for your email. I'll send you first some general resources in response to your questions -  "...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Ashoka - Saraca asoca: FORK All-Languages' WUaS business model with its a) Creative Commons' core b) other planned revenue streams, All-languages and All-countries' WUaS with its Creative Commons' core has two new planned revenue streams on its more commercial side, if we can structure this well (for IPOs even?): HospitalTechnologies (and in a virtual earth) and MindSports (e.g. poker, bridge, the game of Go), The former, both online and on the ground, technologies and especially information technologies for WUaS's planned online teaching hospitals in all countries' main languages; the latter we'd like to turn into online spectator sports in all countries' main languages +., All of these 11 planned revenue streams are on the socially conscious side of business-thinking, non-harming and caring-wise ... (a little f/Friendly/Quaker informed as well) ... Dear Susan (Lonergan), As author of "Who Runs Silicon Valley," Academic entrepreneurialism (is this a new term?) with regard to online WUaS planned in all countries, World Univ & Sch may call this FORKED commercial side "WUaS Business," Stanford Professor Dave Larcker's "Seven Myths of Boards of Directors"

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Fork All-Languages' WUaS business model with its a) Creative Commons' core b) other planned revenue streams -  http://worlduniversit...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Lilies in garlands: Can World University and School design the online Taj Mahal in all 7,938 languages and 259 countries with an Universal Translator and which is beautiful ... perhaps together with a virtual earth for STEM research ... and for all Libraries and Museums in ALL languages ... such as in UNDERSTAND Google Street View with film-realistic avatars? I was focusing on studying virtual place (how it emerges online, and thus in a sense creating it too idea-wise) in 2003-2004 with my St., Kilda, Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh

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Can World University and School design the online Taj Mahal in all 7,938+ languages and 200+ countries with an Universal Translator and whi...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Lotus flower in garlands: what CC WUaS donated to CC Wikidata, 720 Wikia wiki pages in English which make up the plans and templates for online CC universities and schools, planned in a) all 7,938+ languages, each a wiki page/school for open teaching and learning to begin, and especially for b) online universities planned in ~200 countries' main languages, and ACCREDITING (which WUaS plans to do) on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC. Best to glance at the ~10 main areas that WUaS donated here - from "Languages, Nation States ... Libraries, Museums ... to Research" to get an idea of how inter-lingual databases will emerge, Accreditation in California, WSJ "Online Skills Are Hot, But Will They Land You a Job?

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Hi Romaine (and Gerard), I'm glad to hear you're feeling better, Romaine, and thanks for looking into my e-mail and WUaS's ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Champaca: Could you possibly please take the (initial) lead and help me to develop this WUaS plan (and templates) in Wikidata (which CC WUaS donated to CC Wikidata for its third birthday) - and inter-lingually? [Wikidata] Template development in Wikidata re WUaS, Fascinating MIT - BitCoin conversation with Joi Ito, Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir wan der Laan yesterday, Can World University and School both pay in BitCoin in all nation states, but also do so in relation to their banks, each countries' tax code, and re WUaS Law Schools and countries legal systems?

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Hi Dimitris and Wikidatans,  Great to meet you recently at Stanford (DBpedia), Dimitris.  Could you possibly please take the (initia...
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Scott's an anthropologist of #PhysicalDigital Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church @HarbinBook (on #TwitterX), as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who is currently writing "Society, Info Tech & the Global Univ", who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal & extreme longevity drug therapies emerging (with FDA approval), philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of info tech & counterculture :) - scottmacleod.com; Am also the president or head of, and professor at, best STEAM CC OCW wiki World Univ & Sch & Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,159 living languages with machine translation, (aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can #WikiTeach, or #WikiLearn, or #WikiCreate - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (See too "Yoga Notations": http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html). Identity-wise, a Nontheist f/Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and a player of Scottish bagpipes, & an academic
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