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Written by:
Dan Maas
2/22/2008
At the 2007 CASE Convention last August, Daniel Pink (best-selling author of A Whole New Mind) addressed the membership with his views on the new global economy.
During his keynote address to the 2007 CASE Convention, Dan Pink made the following postulate:
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a metaphor is worth a thousand pictures."
I suggest the following corollary:
"And a symbol is worth a thousand metaphors."
Just using my whole mind [;-)
3 comment(s) so far...
Re: Pink's Postulate; Maas' Corollary
What do you mean by symbol? Isn't a symbol a picture that represents something?
By Sue Lloyd on
2/25/2008
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Re: Pink's Postulate; Maas' Corollary
Well, a picture can be a symbol. But a flag is a symbol too. An eagle is a symbol... A symbol is something that stands for a story (or many stories). For example, is the Statue of Liberty just a really big sculpture? No, it's a symbol of America because of how it came here, how it welcomes immigrants seeking the American Dream and what it's image means to each of us. So while a picture tells a long story, and a metaphor conjures many images, a symbol means something unique to each person who knows the stories that surround it...at least, that's my corollary [;-) Thanks for the question, Sue.
By Dan maas on
2/25/2008
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Re: Pink's Postulate; Maas' Corollary
There is another corolllary that comes out of the Report to the LPS Board of Education. Yes, focusing on teachers (using the Eee PC) and then, after a pain, sweat and tears (boot camp of their own), they are ready to help students. And then they want to go back to a desktop as students bring USB sticks of there work: as individuals and as collaborative groups.
Even so, by using the USB and other ports on the EeePC there is alot of hand to hand use of USB sticks. One that I am seeing is a USB adapter stick for Wi-Fi used on Win 98 (with a plug and play upgrade USB port card) and up flea market and after -market systems.
There is an EeePC user group blog. Those on your staff, teachers and students should see the noviice, casual, newbie and techie responses on this blog. A valuable learning curve is there.
Now something for teachers and students to help parents. Those "have not" households need to know that the converter coupons have an expiration date (90 days). I went to a Radiio Store the check-out
if they had the converters. Yes, they did. Then I ask if there were any "digital channels" that could be used to see if the converter would work. The answer I got was not good.
This means that folks neediing the converters will wait until they get to an expiration date. With this rush, there may not be enough converters to meet this rush. Hence the help of the coupon has been useless.
Again, I cannot stress enough for students households needing the converter cupons and could use the rebates to have an Eee PC is a one time opporunity that will be lost.
If you could take the time, there is a EeePC blog user group. Yes, as to the pros and cons concerning the mastering of Linux on the Eee PC and then going back to XP on a desktop.
By Charles Wimber on
3/12/2008
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