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Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word

Brandon — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:53:41 +0000

Interesting poem in this video. I think this man was very brave to talk about his thoughts and beliefs publicly.

Thoughts?

Barcamp Jonesboro 2010

Brandon — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:56:40 +0000

I will be attending Barcamp Jonesboro 2010! I am very excited to participate in the many discussions about the web and social media.

What is Barcamp?

A BarCamp is an “unconference” – an open, participatory event where the attendees are the presenters. The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, Ca., in 2005. Since then more than 350 cities on six continents have hosted BarCamps. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, open-source technologies, and open data formats; but the format has been adapted to serve a variety of other industries and issues, including public transit, health care, real estate and political organizing.

If you are in the Jonesboro Arkansas area get registered and I will see you there!

The Future of News

Brandon — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:52:27 +0000

A discussion of the future of news with Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine, Steve Coll of the New America Foundation (ex of the Washington Post) and John Sturm of the Newspaper Association of America:

Read the full story on the BuzzMachine

This is Bullshit. (Lecture by Jeff Jarvis)

Brandon — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:43:51 +0000

Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine gave a lecture about how lectures are outmoded forms on education and news. Listening to his talk I remembered being in Junior High School feeling like I was getting the cookie cutter education that Jeff talks about in this video.

I like when he pointed out that in this age of information at our fingertips, learning memorisation is a waste. I believe Jeff is correct. If you can find the facts and conduct research on your own doesn’t that show you have truly learned something? Jeff also talks about how standardized tests are not needed. I will never forget the day when we stopped reading literary works in twelfth grade literature class to get ready for the test coming up at the end of the year. I often wonder what great stories I could have read.