Friday, March 25, 2016

Canna: Well met at Berkeley, India World University and School and the Hindi language WUaS not yet in Hindi, WUaS's mission, WUaS Foundation, Master Plan, Business Plan, IT and Data Plan, and Fundraising wiki pages, How could the internet economy help the developing world, country by country? Check out Castells' "The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy" (2005) ... To the wiki subjects - "Network Society," "Economics," and "Nation States" - https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/posts/hqHNvCxefNL - planned in many languages ...

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Anu,  Very nice to meet and talk with you at Cal.  Here's the India World University and School -  http://worlduniversity. wikia...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Creeping thistle: Christine Ortiz, MIT Dean, and "The Research University in the New Millennium | SXSWedu", About CC World University and School, which seeks to accredit in California first (with WASC senior and BPPE) on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to offer free CC best STEM CC OCW online BA/BS, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees to students in all nation states' official languages, but first in English, WUaS has 10 main foci areas, WUaS is seeking to collaborate more fully with MIT itself, WUaS seeks to become a major STEM research university in all countries' main languages, and indeed in all 7,097 languages, and as wiki schools too.

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Dear Christine ( MIT Dean ),  Thanks for sharing information about your fascinating new research university. I enjoyed your recent SXS...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Angiosperms: 7,097 languages less ~300 languages in Wikipedia leaves ~7,797 languages to grow and build and build wiki schools around ... how best to collaborate with faculty and graduate students who study these individual languages?, Top 10 rarest languages - 1. Taushiro (Pinche/Pinchi) 2. Kaixana (Caixana) 3. Lemerig (Pak, Bek, Sasar, Leon, Lem) 4. Chemehuevi 5. Njerep 6. Tanema (Tanima, Tetawo) 7. Liki (Moar) 8. Ongota/Birale 9. Dumi (Dumi Bo’o, Dumi Bro, Lsi Rai, Ro’do Bo’, Sotmali) 10. Chamicuro (Chamekolo, Chamicolo, Chamicura)

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7,097 languages (currently listed in the Ethnologue) less ~300 languages in Wikipedia leaves ~7,797 languages to grow and build and build wi...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Dodecatheon: Great Harbin Hot Springs' online photos ... Wondering how these may morph into a virtual Harbin and virtual earth and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in many languages ... here, for example ... Visit the Harbin Gate here, and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View / Earth ... http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ... and re my ... Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html, I wonder too re the photo into animation in my blog entry on Sunday - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/mbuna-animation-of-photo-of-max.html - in what ways the above Harbin photos might migrate?

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Great Harbin online photos ... Wondering how these may morph into a virtual Harbin and virtual earth and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-gra...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Three Sisters, Oregon: WUaS's "knowledge" model? Reed College Hum 110 (re origins of knowledge in Ancient Greece) newly on web as Hum 101 at WUaS (a required course) with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare knowledge, What happens to knowledge when it comes in conversation with the Internet, Google and big data? ... Reed College Professor Jan Mieszkowski (German and Philosophy too) ... and re this New Yorker article on "Google knowledge" ... posted by Harvard Professor of Education, Karen Brennan ... The word "virtual" as "almost" (as a word to translate into Mandarin possibly), or "as if" (another main current definition of mine from my Harbin book), and I'm leaning toward going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book upcoming Harbin Hot Springs' book and re translation in a new Academic Press at WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned in all 7,097+ languages ...

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WUaS's "knowledge" model? Reed College Hum 110 (re origins of knowledge in Ancient Greece) newly on web as Hum 101 at WUaS (a ...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Mbuna: Animation of a photo of Max Ehrmann reading his Desiderata poem (1927), posted to Youtube in 2011 ... this animation is fascinating re my blog post from yesterday and exploring eventually animating realistic avatars, and historically/ethnographically and for STEM research ... Could WUaS create avatars in a virtual Harbin / earth in Google Street View / OpenSim as "learning spaces" in which I might animate a Heartsong avatar from Harbin Hot Springs in some years, and which would eventually develop forms of agency, independent of initial scripting, and based on Heartsong's far-reaching New Age thinking? * In what ways can I do this ethnographically, and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy? ... How many languages is the Desiderata in?

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Here's an animation of a photo of Max Ehrmann's reading the inspiring and somehow wise Desiderata poem from 1927, posted to Youtube...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Astatotilapia: The idea is for YOU eventually to be able to click through INTO the virtual Harbin in Google Street View that is 3D, interactive and film-realistic, and soak in the Harbin warm pool, but especially to be able to talk with Ishvara or Heartsong or other Harbin residents, for example, mostly through film-realistic, 3D, increasingly interactive and realistic scripted avatar bots, that eventually develop their own agency, but also potentially in person, such as in OpenSim or in Second Life and even, as virtual visitor, or tourist, do your own ethnographic field work, University of California Professors Emeriti Dean MacCannell and Nelson Graburn, I hope virtual worlds, especially a mature and sophisticated Google Street View with OpenSim in all 7,097 languages, will become an important new generative text/source for STEM research, Going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book, using the word "virtual" twice re clarity re the key concept of "virtual"

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The idea in the online version of my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book -  http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarb...