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[Kim Rose]

Hi, Thom -
Thanks for sharing the article/interview -- it looks *very* interesting!
  -- Kim


At 12:06 AM -0500 6/5/02, thom wrote:
>I'd go with 'creativity.' Has a more alliterative ring to it.
>
>	Music is no more in the piano than creativity is in the computer.
>
>A while back I asked folks about new media and literacy. My thoughts
>started when I started to look at Squeak and started to think of
>possibilities. I actually asked a lot more folks than just folks on
>Squeak. I did this for about 3 months and got all sorts of responses. Lots
>very interesting and much not too interesting at all. Maybe I phrased the
>questions wrong, maybe it just wasn't of interest. I still have all sorts
>of stuff but I couldn't find the article in the mess until someone in
>Singapore suggested I track down a guy named Mihai Nadin who should have
>been in Germany but happened to be at Berkeley at the same time I was
>headed to the game developer's conference in San Jose. So, I went up and
>talked to Mihai after killed a small grove of trees printing his book which
>is now out of print but was completely on the money in terms of new media
>& literacy: Civilizations of Illiteracies. Mihai has almost 1000 pages
>thinking about the importance of illiteracies ( emphasis on the 'cies'
>part ) and the very real problems with literacy as we know it.
>
>A very rough pass at the article which will come out, edited, in Technos
>in a few weeks is called 'Ich bin ein Illiterati'
>
>http://www.mime.indiana.edu/mihaiNadin/
>
>for anyone interested.
>
>--Thom
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