Hear it like it is (day 201)

Short post today.  It's been a day of catch up because threads that could wait three days ago are urgent now.  I've estimated that for every day that I'm away I get behind about 25%.  There was so much fragmentation today that it's hard to write about anything coherent right now.  If I could I'd just show a box of bouncing balls I'd call it a representation and be done.

I started a new audiobook after finishing The Lovely Bones (which I recommend btw...read by the author).  The new book is actually a series of interviews of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers.  He's not my favourite interviewer but Joseph is so fascinating it doesn't matter.  I decided to listen to this after I read an article on the RWW blog that mentioned him in relation to creating better presentations.  Turns out it's useful for a lot more than that.  In fact, I'll have to think about how to apply it to so grounded a task as creating a presentation.  You can listen to an excerpt of this on Audible.

I forgot to mention in my post a couple days ago that Jaron Lanier had recommended the book called "The machine stops".  He says it's the best book on the internet.  Turns out it's on Librivox a repository of public domain book recordings.  I'm stoked that I'll be able to listen to it. Wouldn't it be nice if anyone could read any book out loud and post it online?  You can if the book is out of copyright which is great (librivox is just that) but audiobooks in general are still very mainstream.  Personally I would love it if I could buy a book and get the physical, digital, and audio version.  Or at least get the other versions at a significant discount if I already own one version of it.

A song for this post.