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Ancient Sumer species: What's the economic value of ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - in all 7,943 languages and 204 nation states - for virtual earth creation in terms of chip design and hardware only, planned for something like, Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim, where we can all wiki-add our videos and create virtual worlds from ancient Sumerian archaeological 3D data of writings' emergence 5500 years ago, for example, as well as for a 15 foot cubed virtual earth "classroom" and at the street view, neural (cellular) and nano (atomic) levels? TRILLIONS of DOLLARS to many nation states' economies is my first back of the envelope (or blog title) estimate, Beyond the chips/semiconductors, just the 3D printers for printing houses, beyond the materials to print are a ginormous market in all countries

Next: Wildlife of Brazil: WUaS branding as "Harvards of the Web" in all 204 Lands & taking Olympics' infrastructure approach to building high achieving student body, New WUaS business plan coming http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/08/wuass-business-plan-update-and-with.html + http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html in all 204 nation states' languages http://worlduniversityandschool.org * WUaS Development Team would like to network fulsomely with MIT, Wikidata in 358 languages as wiki, and Google ~Streetview, Maps, Classroom+, Great presentation on Virtual / Augmented Reality from MIT's Scott Greenwald and Harvard's Rus Gant with Jenny Chen ... How to create a virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual cosmos as STEM classroom in all 7943 languages for film-realistic, 3D, interactive, group build-able, with realistic and fantastic avatars - and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy .. and that might expand around us into a 15 foot cubed augmented reality classroom?
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What's the economic value of ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - in all 7,943 languages and 204 nation states - for virtual earth creation in terms of chip design and hardware only, planned for something like, Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim, where we can all wiki-add our videos and create virtual worlds from ancient Sumerian archaeological 3D data of writings' emergence 5500 years ago, for example, as well as for a 15 foot cubed virtual earth "classroom" and at the street view, neural (cellular) and nano (atomic) levels?

Beyond the chips/semiconductors (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Chips_-_Semiconductors), just the 3D printers for printing houses, beyond the materials to print are a ginormous market in all countries, for example.

Trillions of dollars to many nation states' economies over many years is my first back of the envelope (or blog title) estimate

and for virtual "classrooms" and STEM wiki research -

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Aristolochia: Streamed online Chinese University of Hong Kong conference, "Digital Methods and Social Development," Please keep World University and School in mind re both academic careers for your students - planned in each of all 7,097 languages, each a market ... and in 204 countries' each a major university, the "Harvard of the Web"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/aristolochia-streamed-online-chinese.html




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Mouflon and ancient Sumer species ... and some possible origin of writing images ... 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tărtăria_tablets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal)

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Wildlife of Brazil: WUaS branding as "Harvards of the Web" in all 204 Lands & taking Olympics' infrastructure approach to building high achieving student body, New WUaS business plan coming http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/08/wuass-business-plan-update-and-with.html + http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html in all 204 nation states' languages http://worlduniversityandschool.org * WUaS Development Team would like to network fulsomely with MIT, Wikidata in 358 languages as wiki, and Google ~Streetview, Maps, Classroom+, Great presentation on Virtual / Augmented Reality from MIT's Scott Greenwald and Harvard's Rus Gant with Jenny Chen ... How to create a virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual cosmos as STEM classroom in all 7943 languages for film-realistic, 3D, interactive, group build-able, with realistic and fantastic avatars - and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy .. and that might expand around us into a 15 foot cubed augmented reality classroom?

Previous: Ancient Sumer species: What's the economic value of ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - in all 7,943 languages and 204 nation states - for virtual earth creation in terms of chip design and hardware only, planned for something like, Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim, where we can all wiki-add our videos and create virtual worlds from ancient Sumerian archaeological 3D data of writings' emergence 5500 years ago, for example, as well as for a 15 foot cubed virtual earth "classroom" and at the street view, neural (cellular) and nano (atomic) levels? TRILLIONS of DOLLARS to many nation states' economies is my first back of the envelope (or blog title) estimate, Beyond the chips/semiconductors, just the 3D printers for printing houses, beyond the materials to print are a ginormous market in all countries
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WUaS branding as "Harvards of the Web" in all 204 Lands & taking Olympics' infrastructure approach to building high achieving student body

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New WUaS business plan coming http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/08/wuass-business-plan-update-and-with.html + http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html in all 204 nation states' languages http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Great presentation on Virtual Reality from MIT's Scott Greenwald and Harvard's Rus Gant with Jenny Chen ...


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"Virtual/Augmented Reality" from MIT's Scott Greenwald and Harvard's Rus Gant with Jenny Chen (August 18, 2016)
http://scifidelitywmbr.tumblr.com/post/149115100372/summary-grad-student-scott-greenwald-fluid
https://soundcloud.com/scifidelity-wmbr

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WUaS Development Team would like to network fulsomely with MIT, Wikidata in 358 languages as wiki, and Google ~Streetview, Maps, Classroom+
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How to create a virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual cosmos as STEM classroom (and for brain research at the neural and nano levels) in all 7943 languages for film-realistic, 3D, interactive, group build-able, with realistic and fantastic avatars - and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy .. and that might expand around us into a 15 foot cubed augmented reality classroom?

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Treepie: Pragmatically, with Susan Anders'"Harmony Singing by Ear" on CDs as one example, - how to transform this into a cognitive mentoring application?, Furthermore, how to add data to this hypothetical application, or "datify" this (e.g. Suzuki Method CDs for violin and piano similarly too, & perhaps Sal Khan videos too?, Also, how to "datify" such for "interventions" (& flourishing engagement) and specific language learning-wise too?, Could one or I turn any favorite musician or group into such an application, Pandora or iHeartRadio-wise - and even into a robot for my hypothetical kids to learn to sing harmony?

Previous: Wildlife of Brazil: WUaS branding as "Harvards of the Web" in all 204 Lands & taking Olympics' infrastructure approach to building high achieving student body, New WUaS business plan coming http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/08/wuass-business-plan-update-and-with.html + http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html in all 204 nation states' languages http://worlduniversityandschool.org * WUaS Development Team would like to network fulsomely with MIT, Wikidata in 358 languages as wiki, and Google ~Streetview, Maps, Classroom+, Great presentation on Virtual / Augmented Reality from MIT's Scott Greenwald and Harvard's Rus Gant with Jenny Chen ... How to create a virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual cosmos as STEM classroom in all 7943 languages for film-realistic, 3D, interactive, group build-able, with realistic and fantastic avatars - and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy .. and that might expand around us into a 15 foot cubed augmented reality classroom?
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Pragmatically, with Susan Anders'"Harmony Singing by Ear" on CDs as one example, - how to transform this into a cognitive mentoring app?

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http://susananders.com/harmony-singing-by-ear
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Furthermore, how to add data to this hypothetical application, or "datify" this (e.g. Suzuki Method CDs for violin and piano similarly too, & perhaps Sal Khan videos too?

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Also, how to "datify" such for "interventions" (& flourishing engagement) and specific language learning-wise too?
re http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_of_Learning


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http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Harmony

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Could one or I turn any favorite musician or group into such an application, Pandora or iHeartRadio-wise - and even into a robot for my hypothetical kids to learn to sing harmony?

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Here's a blogpost from 2013 exploring Susan Anders'"Singing Harmony by Ear" with coding (and there are others in this blog)

Bali tiger: How to 'marry' two databases together?, E.g. Google Translate with Ethnologue, WUaS with Wikipedia, Similarly, how to combine, for example, Susan Anders' first CD set (3) "Singing Harmony by Ear" with, for example, digital feedback, paralleling the relatively new, speed limit signs that blink your speed back at you


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/04/bali-tiger-how-to-marry-two-databases.html
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As a followup to your great cognitive assistants' talk this morning, an interesting challenge now hypothetically with developing Susan Anders' CDs "Harmony Singing by Ear" into a cognitive assistant would be for WUaS to add a version of a model-trace tutoring system from Carnegie Learning (https://www.carnegielearning.com/) to Wikidata/Wikibase in its 358 languages, then get copyright permissions, then produce a subsequent model for building this cognitive mentor (adaptable to Suzuki Method and Sal Khan videos, too, for example) and with interventions (feedback-wise) and for specific kinds of flourishing engagement (a WUaS focus) ... and then to develop this as a (developing, versioning) product/  "application" ... and even for WUaS to publish this in our Academic Press (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html), and then sell it in our planned online bookstore (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS) in many languages. 

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Thanks, Jim! Spohrer!

Posted some of these ideas, inspired by your cognitive assistants' idea, to my blog today - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/treepie-pragmatically-with-susan-anders.html . 

WUaS is forking legally this autumn in a UC Berkeley Law course for the 2nd semester in a row - and concurrently hopefully with University of California incubation of World University and School for accreditation, as we develop the MIT OCW-centric course catalog in Wikidata / Wikibase, first.

And WUaS has a little ways to go still to develop our owm Development Team :) ... Thanks! 

Scott

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Dugong: Nelson Graburn has the best understanding of my Harbin ethnographic book of anyone so far, and has read the most of it, I'd say, I finished indexing for the 3rd + time my Harbin book, and it should be available on paper soon at the new Academic Press at World University and School!!!, In addition to beginning to read MIT OCW Anthropology Department books, together with some philosophy, perhaps Kant and Hegel to begin ... How to bring virtual Harbin into some streams of philosophical conversations?

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I'd say UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Nelson Graburn has the best understanding of my Harbin ethnographic book of anyone so far, and has read the most of it too. His writing of its introduction helps focus it especially. {And at some point, I may address this with a complementary alternative interpretation in my 2nd Harbin book.}

And he's also a great academic champion of it, for which I'm very appreciative. Thank you, Nelson!

Here for example are the 2 talks ~

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

~ I've given in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department in recent years - in 2015 (slides) and 2012 (video) - and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as a new methodology.


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But while Nelson is a great champion of it, I don't think he's visited Harbin, and he hasn't really been able to experience "being there" - or, in a sense been able to do his own participant observation field work as a Professor of Anthropology, which I hope to facilitate remarkably in creating a virtual Harbin / virtual Earth for STEM researchers, something like Google Street View with time slider with OpenSimulator (and for brain research also!). This would be film-realistic, 3D, interactive, group build able, STEM precise, in all 7, 943 languages, and with avatars ... and with virtual Harbin one would view it / visit it / be there from one's bath tub from anywhere in the world.

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Hi Nic,

I think of those British naturalists who traveled far in their gardens, understanding evolution at home for example ... maybe lawn mowing is a related form of travel :-) ... hoping to create a film realistic virtual Earth for STEM research in a related vein ... there are cool places to travel already in Stteet View for example :-)

For example, you can visit the Harbin Gatehouse here -

http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg 


- and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View :) ... but you can't go into Harbin (and this mostly imagery is pre Sept 2015 fire)

The Harbin Gate link is accessible too from my book's web page - 


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I finished indexing for the 3rd + time my Harbin book, and it should be available on paper soon at the new Academic Press at World University and School!!!


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I think I'm going to begin to read through MIT OCW's Anthropology books and articles ...

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/ ... beginning with Laura Ahearn's book "Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal" University of Michigan Press, 2001, which I haven't read yet.


together with some philosophy, perhaps Kant and Hegel to begin ...

How to bring virtual Harbin into some streams of philosophical conversations?


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Donald!

Nice to get your email!

Your adventures in Apple land from SF sound enhancing ... When will we be able to do something like wiring your living room for any music ever recorded with augmented reality? How soon until we can visit a great virtual Harbin from your living room (not from your bathtub!) - or Brigflats in Cumbria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigflatts_Meeting_House - for Meeting ... and for the spaciousness of summer (or loving bliss)? Heard back positively about a tenure track MIT Media Lab junior faculty position a few weeks ago: "Start date is flexible but would be January 1st 2017 at the earliest. Pattie" where Pattie Maes, a Belgian, has been a professor there since 1996, and Joi Ito its director since 2011 ... thanks to 3 good recommendations, two from engineers. I'd like to settle on January 1, 2017 and first from out here for some years, if at all possible.

Feeling-wise, received your email - a treat - as I just completed my Harbin book index for the 3rd + grind time - relief - so treated & relieved. My manuscript passed the CreateSpace internal review a few weeks ago otherwise, so I think it should be available on paper soon newly, in 8.5x11 format with about 180 photos! A long journey, and about to begin on a 2nd Harbin book journey. WUaS will be, for a second semester, in a UC Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" course beginning soon, I'm glad to say.

Grateful for F/friendliness, Scott

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Hi Nelson, 

Having already passed CreateSpace's internal review, I just submitted my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" manuscript with its Universal ISBN in the Academic Press at World University and School IMPRINT to CreateSpace, and should hear back about this final review within 24 hours - and then my book should be available on paper from my web site - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity !

Since I chose the Universal ISBN many months ago to BEGIN the Academic Press at WUaS (planned in all 7,943 languages with machine translation eventually), and CreateSpace/Amazon doesn't allow this Universal ISBN to go through their "Libraries & Academic Institutions" distribution channel, I can apparently create a workaround for this with an ACADEMIC/LIBRARIES' version and get their FREE ISBN which will allow me to distribute my book through their "Libraries & Academic Institutions" channel in this ACADEMIC/LIBRARIES' version - to be seen. (This would mean apparently I would have to change the Universal ISBN in the first print edition to the free CreateSpace ISBN for them to distribute this through their Libraries channel - and libraries wouldn't have the Academic Press WUaS ISBN in their database records). With the Universal ISBN for Academic Press WUaS, I can distribute through 1) Amazon.com, 2) Amazon Europe and 3) CreateSpace eStore and 3 others of their channels. Now to figure out distribution on-the-ground!


 - I'd say you have the best understanding of my Harbin ethnographic book of anyone so far, and have read the most of it too. Your writing of its introduction helps focus my book especially. Thank you!

But as an anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology especially, you haven't been able yet to visit virtual Harbin for a great Harbin experience yet!

And you're also a great academic champion of my book, for which I'm very appreciative. Thank you, Nelson!

Best regards, Scott




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Brown-headed cowbird: New Naked Harbin Ethnography book cover! ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

Golden trevally: Mind-expanding - Genies out of the bottle? MIT's Joi Ito & Harvard's Martin Nowak To Evolution+ at WUaS Subjects, Magnus Manske on archaeological coordinates missing in Wikidata - To "Archaeology"&"Wikidata...Ecosystem"… Planning for wiki Google Street View w Time Slider as film-realistic VIRTUAL EARTH, University Ave, Palo Alto (near Stanford) Arts Festival, Sunny pleasant day, Free music - a little on-the-ground Information Technology Age Sunday Afternoon Ethnography, new and old Apple Computer store, Phenomenology of Mind-Phänomenologie des Geistes in English&German, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Hegel, 14 planned revenue streams at WUaS, Thanks, Professeur Monsieur Bruno @Latourbot ...

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Mind-expanding - Genies out of the bottle? MIT's Joi Ito & Harvard's Martin Nowak To Evolution+ http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

Martin Nowak and Joi Ito conversation - August 26, 2016


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNdCTSTcRU

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Sexual dimorphism: Naked Harbin Ethnography book with CreateSpace and Amazon ... and planning for WUaS in 8k languages, ACADEMIC/LIBRARIES' version? BEGINNING the Academic Press at WUaS (planned in all 7,943 languages with machine translation eventually)

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Hi Donald, Charles and F/friends, 

Greetings from AFSC / SF FM and the WUaS hive meeting space How are you? I hope this finds you well.

David, did you mention the Chapman Stick musical instrument maker near Stanford to me some years ago - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/769991587350872064 and https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/769997267474472966? I heard him yesterday and enjoyed this - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/golden-trevally-mind-expanding-genies.html.

Since you're (kind of) F/friendly publishers, I thought you might be interested in the following -
Having already passed CreateSpace's internal review, I just submitted my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" manuscript with its Universal ISBN in the Academic Press at World University and School IMPRINT to CreateSpace, and have heard back about this final review within 24 hours that it's good to go - and soon my book should be available on paper from my web site - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and - http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity !

Since I chose the Universal ISBN many months ago to BEGIN the Academic Press at WUaS (planned in all 7,943 languages with machine translation eventually), and CreateSpace/Amazon doesn't allow this Universal ISBN to go through their "Libraries & Academic Institutions" distribution channel, I can apparently create a workaround for this with an ACADEMIC/LIBRARIES' version by getting a FREE ISBN from CS which will allow me to distribute my book through their "Libraries & Academic Institutions" channel in this ACADEMIC/LIBRARIES' version - to be seen. (Textually, this would mean apparently I would have to change the Universal ISBN in the first print edition to the free CreateSpace ISBN for them to distribute this version through their Libraries channel - and libraries wouldn't have the Academic Press WUaS ISBN in their database records). With the Universal ISBN for Academic Press WUaS re CreateSpace/Amazon, I can distribute my book through

1) Amazon.com

Make your book available to millions of customers on Amazon.com, as well as Amazon.ca.

2) Amazon Europe

Make your book available on Amazon's European websites including Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, and Amazon.es.

3) CreateSpace eStore

Your eStore is an online sales detail page where we fulfill all eStore orders and handle the customer service, too.


... and 3 others of their channels ... for which one further opts in ...

4) Bookstores and Online Retailers

By enabling this channel, you can make your book available to thousands of major online and offline bookstores and retailers, and expand the size of the potential audience for your books.

5) CreateSpace Direct

By enabling this channel, you can make your books available to certified resellers such as independent bookstores and book resellers. The CreateSpace Direct program allows eligible resellers to buy books at wholesale prices directly from CreateSpace.

... but not 6) Libraries & Academic Institutions

By enabling this channel, you can make your book available to public libraries, elementary and secondary school libraries, and libraries at other academic institutions.

... So, to get a free ISBN from CS and create a second book version for this 6) Libraries & Academic Institutions ... ?


Here's an only slightly dated summary video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN7QmaBcl08  and a marketing video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOT4Wnuv3E8.

Again, I've now gone through my Harbin book's proofs 3 times per CreateSpace's suggestion, and found some changes. Otherwise, I've gone through most of CreateSpace's checklist process, and am ready to order a Proof copy on paper. Per the above, I still need to think through getting another ISBN with CreateSpace, (a third one I think, which would be free) for their distribution to libraries and academic institutions, - yet possibly losing control of the book since it will be their CreateSpace ISBN (and not the initial Universal ISBN I purchased to make my book broadly accessible), and also they get their ISBN into libraries (and not my book's initial Universal ISBN into libraries) - where libraries and academic institutions are big potential buyers (and they have budgets for buying books).  In addition, each of their other 5 distribution channels has a different royalties' structure, which implications I have to understand (and learn from). It's great that their software is so selling oriented, but how to be strategic with these?

Here are some questions I'm wondering about:

Would it be better to postpone the additional CS's free ISBN for my WUaS's planned 1) bookstore and 2) libraries and 3) planned academic press, so WUaS can develop our own libraries and academic institutions list (and deal with them directly?) Waiting would seem to make sense here possibly. My book is targeting undergraduate, graduate students and faculty (as well as people with an interest in the 1960s /1970s) however, so libraries and academic institutions makes sense ... especially if some faculty will seek their students to read this book in January 2017 - per these syllabi - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/syzygium-harbin-hot-springs-book.html.

I could also contact the Lake County library in Middletown near Harbin (and a public librarian friend named Sioux in PA) without getting (a new free ISBN) about CreateSpace's libraries' distribution channel and see if they can purchase my Harbin book at a fee structure they're comfortable with through one of CreateSpace/Amazon's 5 other channels. I would thus see how this ecosystem of distribution channels and book economics works out.

I'd like to keep some distribution control re sales to libraries for translation, academic press, my WUaS's bookstore, and our relationship with our own planned libraries and other libraries - planned in all 7,943 languages - but I'd also like my Harbin book to sell well in 2016 - the year in which it's published.

I'm now going to charge $64.95 for my Harbin book (having engaged CreateSpace's software for this, and not the $59,95 that the book in which my previous academic chapter goes for), and likely use their Kindle "complex conversion kit" which costs $139 as well. I would need to sell 3 copies of my Harbin book for the Kindle, if I charge this much on the Kindle, to recoup my costs here. I can think of 1 or two friends who have a Kindle, and who might purchase my book with its 180 pictures .. Is it worth it? My book is interactive, and buddingly interactive as Google Street View develops, for example, too. (Could I even develop my Harbin book into a kind of meditative warm water therapy resource eventually?:)

How too to develop a) an Xmas season and b) academic marketing plan (per these 5 or so academic syllabi - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/syzygium-harbin-hot-springs-book.html - engaging Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in SL" with which I come into conversation), that I then extrapolate to WUaS's academic press and bookstore market plans (again potentially in all 8k languages)?

Charles, do you know of distribution channel structures through your resources, and can you see an economic opportunity here for Inner Light Books or Friendly publishing in one way or another, - and vis-a-vis other distribution channels?

Now to figure out distribution on-the-ground!

Friendly cheers,
Scott



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Monarch butterfly migration: WUaS in Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" course this autumn (2nd semester in a row), Forking into NONPROFIT and FOR-PROFIT

Next: Wilderness Areas in the Adirondack Park: [Wikidata] List generation input, Create a complete list of all languages in Wikipedia beginning with Glottolog's CC list here -http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language - with 7,943 entries in languages (to create wiki schools for open teaching and learning in those languages (using WUaS's Subject Template - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE)?, List of all 3 million to 100 million species, in order to eventually co-develop, for example, an all-species' image recognition application - hold your smartphone up to any species anywhere, and identify it - and in any language?, Both all LANGUAGES and a species' identification application for all SPECIES in all languages will dovetail with a WUaS Universal Translator, Stanford lecture last night which was in Farsi, Unfortunately I do not yet have an Universal Translator on my smartphone to be able to understand this talk, CC MIT OCW in Persian is helpful material with regard to free online highest quality planned university CC degrees
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Hi Bill,

Nice to get your email as well, and thanks for the update about the opening brunch at UC Berkeley Law in two Sundays from now concerning the second semester of WUaS being a client in your "New Business Practicum" law course.

I'm attaching the WUaS Minutes from our Saturday, July 9 and August 13 2016 business meetings, with our main recent developments in the news and minuted. (I'm very glad to say Burl Amsbury participated in the August 13th meeting; he's potentially interested in becoming COO of WUaS, has 3 degrees from MIT, including a BS in EE, and a Master's from MIT's Sloan School of Management; he's also active with Quakers in Colorado; and he has a brother-in-law who teaches in the Boalt School of Law I think). I'm also reattaching the WUaS-MIT OCW correspondence with MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira from your course this spring.

World University's recent developments, in summary,

a) WUaS finances are newly in Quickbooks for NONPROFITS, with our bank account and PayPal connected digitally.

b) As a nonprofit Creative Commons' licensed (free to students) startup university and wiki school, WUaS seeks to develop the student application process and course catalog in CC Wikidata / Wikibase (planning to accredit on MIT OCW in 7 languages and Yale OYC) anticipating eventually applicants in all countries' main languages (while being incubated by the University of California), and schools in all 7,943 languages, and developing with artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine translation.

c)  WUaS is seeking to fork WUaS ... worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS.org>WUaS.edu eventually on the one hand, and WUaS.com on the other? ... and develop the legal framework for the FOR-PROFIT forked entity in your course this autumn.

To this end, one main question for your course is how to form a FOR-PROFIT publicly traded stock company in California. For example, what are the steps to developing an initial IPO for WUaS, to complement our NONPROFIT status, taking a kind of build-out strategy? I found the following online with some information about this - http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-form-corporation-california.html - but keeping both sides of WUaS forked long into the future will require careful legal groundwork, especially in planning for policies and databases.

Here again are the 14 planned revenue streams - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - and Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation Legal Director, Michelle Paulson's language for this -

"Hi Scott,
It was lovely chatting with you as well. Thanks for taking the time.
As for WUaS and WUaS Business keeping their email and databases separate, it would depend on what their respective privacy policies allow in terms of sharing email addresses and depend on the copyright status and licensing restrictions on for the databases. I think the names are distinctive enough -- they clearly show they are affiliated, but with different goals.

I'm not sure about teaching at this point. I actually didn't even have time to get breakfast or lunch today, so adding more projects on my plate is not the best idea right now. But reach out to me again in the future because my workload may have changed by then!
Best of luck,
-Michelle"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/12/hybrid-biology-wuas-meeting-with.html - (She went to UC Berkeley as an undergraduate and has a law degree from UC Hastings Law School).

In holding WUaS hive meeting spaces at AFSC / SF Quaker Meeting twice weekly regularly, one recent further development on the FOR-PROFIT side could include, in forming the online bookstore/computer store planned for all 7,943 languages, hiring homeless people to do order fulfillment and warehouse work. WUaS seeks to become a significant employer worldwide - and be of service to society worldwide - and this model of hiring homeless could be extrapolated to cities around the world. WUaS has met someone during our hive meeting spaces who works with a Homeless Advocacy Group which itself meets at AFSC / SFFM, and who could potentially help with organizing employing homeless people.

Some years ago, WUaS met with a Quaker bookstore - Earthlight Bookstore - that makes books available for purchase at Quaker Quarterly and Yearly Meeting, and which is interested in collaborating. WUaS could add their small book inventory into a FOR-PROFIT Quickbooks multi-store/enterprise bookstore software as the seed to begin growing from, for example.  ...

So WUaS is interested in legal assistance for developing our for-profit forked wing, and hope we can explore this together with you, Bill, and interns in your course. How does all of this sound in terms of your course this autumn? Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday, September 11th after 11:30 am in the Steinhart Court at Boalt School of Law at UC Berkeley.

Thank you!

Sincerely,
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Hi Bill,

As a followup, and in terms of creating an infrastructure for nation states donating some portion of the $44,000 per year it costs to attend MIT or Stanford for tuition alone to WUaS for their 18 year olds matriculating at WUaS in 2017, and your course, WUaS would like to explore building on the National Olympics' Committee countries' and lawyers' infrastructure for funding, for example, all 206 nations' athletes in the recent 2016 Olympics. (See, too -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/wildlife-of-brazil-wuas-branding-as.html).

In terms of outreach, and student applicants from all 206 nations this autumn/spring (first in English) for free CC BS/BA degrees from their homes, WUaS might also be able to seek nations' student academic highest achieving "athletes" - and even do this by building on the celebrity of the Rio Olympic athletes. Could WUaS engage them to do promotions in their countries even?

Harvard Law Professor Charlie Nesson might be a great person to reach out to about this (and possibly re Cannabis questions from my previous email and the law, as well). Dean Travers, too, a Harvard student competing this year in the winter Olympics might be another contact - https://twitter.com/CaymanKlammer. And at Cal, Ryan Murphy in the Haas Business School, along with Dean Rich Lyons - https://twitter.com/richlyons/status/770018085352988673 - might be good contacts.

WUaS is seeking to become, and brand, as the "Harvards of the Web" and eventually in all 206 (currently per the NOC) nations' official and languages.

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Hi Bill,

As one last further follow up, and perhaps beyond the purview of your course this autumn, but informing both the nonprofit and for-profit wings of WUaS, WUaS would like to explore helping to develop both BitCoin and BlockChain, and in all countries' official languages, and with our law school graduate students in all these languages and their countries, helping to write the code for this - and vis-a-vis countries' banking systems - both online and offline - too.

This would play out at WUaS potentially in both QuickBooks / Intuit software/databases as well as in Wikidata / Wikibase AI databases, as I see this now. And WUaS would like to explore paying our faculty and staff in all 7,943 languages and in all their countries in BitCoin. I hope we can eventually hire upwards of a million people, perhaps 700,000 of them students working 10 hours/week.

As you may or may not know, I applied for a tenure track MIT Media Lab junior faculty position, where Joi Ito is its Director (and newly a Professor), and is also spearheading BitCoin / BlockChain. Hopefully, making my Harbin book accessible on paper (I hope to bring the first printed-on-paper version to UC Berkeley this Friday) will help me settle the tenure track MIT Media Lab junior faculty position to beginJanuary 1, 2017 (and potentially while living  out here for a few years) - and thus further focus this possible collaborative development of BitCoin and BlockChain potentially between UC Berkeley, MIT and WUaS. (You'll find MIT Professor Pattie Maes, and associate Department Head's brief email to me about this here -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/dugong-nelson-graburn-has-best.html).

Sincerely, Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

WUaS's monthly business meeting (conducted in the manner of f/Friends) is open and meets on the second Saturdays of the month at 9am Pacific Time for an hour. Please email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if you'd like to participate.



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Hi Léa, Jan, Gerard and All, 

In terms of "List Generation Input," would it make sense to add a basic intro tutorial (in video perhaps - is there one even?) about how to create a new large list in the first place in Wikipedia based on Wikidata / Wikibase, as well as a possible sandbox for exploring this? (When I google searched on "starting a long list in Wikipedia," I found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:List - "This help page explains how to create and edit lists on the English Wikipedia," which also doesn't mention Wikidata). 

Say, for example, I wanted to create a complete list of all languages in Wikipedia beginning with Glottolog's CC list here -http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language - with 7,943 entries in languages (to create wiki schools for open teaching and learning in those languages (using WUaS's Subject Template - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE), how would I begin to do this?  

(WUaS donated CC WUaS to Wikidata last autumn). 

(Similarly with all species, beginning with a complete CC list, for example, and in order to eventually co-develop, for example, an all-species' image recognition application - hold your smartphone up to any species anywhere, and identify it - and in any language), how would I begin to add such lists to Wikipedia with Wikidata? 

Shall I add a scenario D to this page - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_generation_input - with these questions above? 

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Hello folks,

The Wikidata development team is currently working on tools to improve list creation on Wikipedia, based on Wikidata data.

In order to understand what could be useful for you and why, we suggest you three examples of user scenarios, in which you could recognize some of your current uses: how do you currently edit some lists on Wikipedia, which tools or processes do you use, and what can be improved.

You can answer some short questions and add comments on our assumptions on each related talk page. This input is very important to help us understand how you edit the lists on Wikipedia, and what tools could be useful for you.

Thanks to all of you who will take a few minutes to answer our questions!
Jan & Léa


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I went to a Stanford lecture last night which was in Farsi -  "Shahrzad's Experience" - http://events.stanford.edu/events/614/61475/.

Unfortunately I do not yet have an Universal Translator on my smartphone to be able to understand this talk - but WUaS would like to develop one actually - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator !

CC MIT OCW in Persian is helpful material with regard to free online highest quality planned university CC degrees -http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/ - and World University and School is planning to build on this.


- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
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Manatee: Received very first two paper copies of my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book today, Will get 5 different channels for distribution via CreateSpace for the very first book in the new Academic Press at World University and School, planned in each of all 7,943 languages with machine translation, AI and machine learning

Previous: Wilderness Areas in the Adirondack Park: [Wikidata] List generation input, Create a complete list of all languages in Wikipedia beginning with Glottolog's CC list here -http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language - with 7,943 entries in languages (to create wiki schools for open teaching and learning in those languages (using WUaS's Subject Template - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE)?, List of all 3 million to 100 million species, in order to eventually co-develop, for example, an all-species' image recognition application - hold your smartphone up to any species anywhere, and identify it - and in any language?, Both all LANGUAGES and a species' identification application for all SPECIES in all languages will dovetail with a WUaS Universal Translator, Stanford lecture last night which was in Farsi, Unfortunately I do not yet have an Universal Translator on my smartphone to be able to understand this talk, CC MIT OCW in Persian is helpful material with regard to free online highest quality planned university CC degrees
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Hi M,

I should receive my very first two paper copies of my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ to proof later today at a Reed friend's "hippy" house with a residential street address in Berkeley - will probably photograph & post copies of these to this blog entry for today.

Then after proofing, I'll click "approve for distribution" and will get 5 different channels for distribution via CreateSpace / Amazon - the Amazon book page itself will take 5 days, but the others will be quicker, and I earn the most royalties for each copy when people buy this through the CreateSpace eStore. ...

in the very first book in the new Academic Press at World University and School ~

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html.

Will be glad when this milestone is on the web ...

Then on to talk further about my MIT Media Lab junior faculty position.

L, Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org


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Columbidae: Amazing Grace Duet, with seconds (harmony), A fan of Steeleye Span from the early 70s especially (and folk rock too - here's "Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again" (great name for an album:)) from them from 1971, Which versions of Amazing Grace make people cry with happiness and why (and how)?, To exploring "Music Playing Spaces" for Scottish Smallpipes playing on Tuesdays from 8-9 or 10 pm (Pacific Time) in a few weeks ... to begin ... (and explicitly for exploring happiness / bliss generation through group music making:)

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Hi B, A, R, :)

Here are Rees and I playing Amazing Grace on practice chanters a few years ago - 


Amazing Grace Duet, with seconds (harmony)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD1uB2I2qnE :)

A fan of Steeleye Span from the early 70s especially (and folk rock too -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Folk_rock_music) - here's "Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again" (great name for an album:)) from them from 1971 ...https://open.spotify.com/album/5rXXUQOu5zelG0Rb4Va7pR or https://play.spotify.com/album/56fS1iUenSQIITEmBwm5kp (which I hadn't heard of before) and on the good Spotify radio channel maker ... 

I'd like to explore creating recordings (with you all, and online?) coming into conversation with such, perhaps emerging out of our music playing spaces. Are any of you Steeleye Span fans? (I don't recall that they play with pipes very much).

I'm attaching Amazing Grace in 5 parts on sheet music ... might be fun to explore playing together in terms of singing, as well as singing harmony lines while playing Scottish smallpipes, as well as exploring in terms of musicality ...

Which versions of Amazing Grace make people cry with happiness and why (and how)? :) The relative slowness of Amazing Grace (and its beauty) may allow us to explore how make music online together in real time with Alan in New Zealand (over Android smartphones which synch with Google Hangouts .... still wouldn't resolve Alan's distance)! Here's Rees and I playing Amazing Grace on practice chanters a few years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD1uB2I2qnE :)

To exploring "Music Playing Spaces" for Scottish Smallpipes playing on Tuesdays from 8-9 or 10 pm (Pacific Time) in a few weeks ... to begin ... (after my shoulder heals a little further, and explicitly for exploring happiness / bliss generation through group music making:)

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Alan, Rees and Bruce! :)

I'd like to introduce you all to one another. Alan MacKenzie is an interested piper in New Zealand who's getting a new set of finely fettled small pipes from Auckland soon; originally from Canada, Alan married a Kiwi and is the father of 3 teenage boys. Bruce plays three kinds of Scottish pipes and lives in Oakland; he originally went to what I would call a high-achieving Quaker college in Philadelphia, Haverford. Rees is an undergraduate Engineering student at UC Berkeley; I gave him GHB piping lessons in his home in high school and online using the CoP Green Book. Since Rees is a full time UC Berkeley student, he may be busy, but it's with Rees I started "Music Playing Spaces" in Google Hangouts in 2012 or so.  


Let's wait a month or two to start exploring online "Music Playing Space" Hangouts together, Alan,  (for my shoulder to heal further, although as a "Music Playing Space" I may explore playing keyboard too). But I was thinking about calling this specifically a Music Playing Space for Scottish Piping ... to be seen - I like the idea of openness to all musical instruments - and openness in general. And in many ways the idea is a practicing space nee playing space - for working on our own music - and while being social in texting and face-to-face while muting ourselves, but of course anyone can un-mute to share musical ideas that way. I've just broached the idea once recently with Bruce, who may be holding a musical gathering at his place on Tuesday evenings at 8pm in the SF Bay Area re the Scottish Fiddlers group he's in, but Bruce also seemed to express interest in actually coming on Tuesdays to where I live in beautiful Canyon CA to get the hang of the information technologies in "Music Playing Spaces." Rees, if you're interested, you'd be welcome to both come to Canyon, as well, or join the online Hangout. 

I have half a mind to eventually open my smartphone on Monday evenings (Sunday afternoon at 3p your NZST, I think) when the Open Band plays for Scottish Country Dancers in Berkeley at 8pm - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand - as a  "Music Playing Space" so you, Alan in NZ, and anyone could join in to playing with this. Patti Cobb usually sends around sheet music for this, which I've found helps a lot. 

I'd like to open further Music Playing Spaces as well on other evenings of the week Pacific Time ... and for learning in different ways, so let's stay tuned to each other in these regards. I'd also like to explore them in real real time for jamming learning and to even explore explicitly generating bliss neurophysiology (out of the box here :)

Musical cheers, Scott

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Yay, Alan!

I'm a fan of the College of Piping (Glasgow) Piping Tutor (vol. 1) - the Green Book - for learning, and it did well by Rees Parker, whom I hope may join us occasionally in a few months .. And videos of the CoP Green Tutor's first tunes are here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ... and I'm also a fan of exploring ... See you in a "music playing space" in a while :))

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Music-wise this autumn, as my right shoulder heals, looks like I'm lining up possibly Scottish Country Dancing live music--making on keyboard (and eventually small pipes) for 2 hours on Mondays in Berkeley and Thursdays in SF, a Music Playing Space online on Tuesdays (with Rees, Bruce Maxwell and Alan MacKenzie in New Zealand - small pipes focused) - and 10 weeks of online lessons with the great Stuart Liddell! :)) I'm glad to be lining up 3 nights weekly, at least, of regular playing, and socially - (albeit Music Playing Spaces are potentially for practicing independently, yet socially - a development re my own practicing:).


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Hi Alan, Rees and Bruce, 
 
Great to communicate with you each directly recently and to learn of your possible interest in a Music Playing Space, potentially on Tuesdayevenings. Might we begin in about a month (after my right shoulder heals further)?
 
While not Scottish piping, I enjoy this Real Blues Reel from the amazing Kathryn Tickell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq9wrzSdB1w - on Northumberland Pipes - and am curious how to possibly transcribe this and tease out on sheet music the bagpipe's line, for example. (I like both her "Signs" and the "Gathering" CDs, and her Pandora channel is also pretty good - http://www.pandora.com/station/play/2202270650304539077 ).
 
Looking forward to Music Playing Spaces (to play the music we're growing each ourselves:),
Scott

Here's the developing MuseScore - https://musescore.org - written with pipers in mind too, and which may interface with Audacity, - and Amazing Grace in 5 parts in sheet music to come ... Rees doesn't have smallpipes (yet), I think, and thus we'd have to figure out how to flatten his practice chanter a half step or something :)

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Medicinal plants: If WUaS Law & CS students could help write BitCoinBlockChain code in ALL languages needed, with banks, could we also help write tax systems?, Curious how EU's experience w Euro & 28 countries re unification & Brussels could inform BitCoin in 200 WUaS Law Schs, How might Jullia Reda & MIT's Joi Ito help navigate BitCoin thru Brussels & in all 200 countries re WUaS Law Schs, learning from EURO

Next: Liliaceae: [Wikidata] List generation input, Exploring creating a "Wikipedia-Wikidata List Generation" help page per your suggestion, Three lists as examples for understanding how this would work on both the Wikipedia and Wikidata sides, 1) a) a list of all 7,943+ languages (http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) on the Wikipedia with b) WUaS's SUBJECT TEMPLATE, 2) a) a list of all CC MIT OCW courses (http://ocw.mit.edu/) in 7 languages (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) on the Wikipedia side, with b) a WUaS Course Catalog, 3) a) a list of potential matriculating and open students (at top here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) on the WUaS MediaWiki sidehttps://web.archive.org/web/20150324001526/http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - paralleling the Wikipedia side) with b) how they might query the above SUBJECT TEMPLATE and WUaS Course Catalog +
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Liliaceae: [Wikidata] List generation input, Exploring creating a "Wikipedia-Wikidata List Generation" help page per your suggestion, Three lists as examples for understanding how this would work on both the Wikipedia and Wikidata sides, 1) a) a list of all 7,943+ languages (http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) on the Wikipedia with b) WUaS's SUBJECT TEMPLATE, 2) a) a list of all CC MIT OCW courses (http://ocw.mit.edu/) in 7 languages (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) on the Wikipedia side, with b) a WUaS Course Catalog, 3) a) a list of potential matriculating and open students (at top here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) on the WUaS MediaWiki sidehttps://web.archive.org/web/20150324001526/http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - paralleling the Wikipedia side) with b) how they might query the above SUBJECT TEMPLATE and WUaS Course Catalog +

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Hi Léa, Jan, Gerard, Erika, Markus and Wikidatans, 

Thanks very much for the clarification, Jan. 

I'll explore creating a "Wikipedia-Wikidata List Generation" help page per your suggestion, and link it to - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_generation_input (and possibly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:List too) - and possibly with video tutorials.

The three lists as examples - and for my own understanding of how this would work on both the Wikipedia and Wikidata sides - I'd like to begin with would include 

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a) a list of all 7,943+ languages (http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) on the Wikipedia with b) WUaS's SUBJECT TEMPLATE (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE) on the Wikidata / SPARQL side 

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a) a list of all CC MIT OCW courses (http://ocw.mit.edu/) in 7 languages (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) on the Wikipedia side, with b) a WUaS Course Catalog (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit) on the Wikidata side

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a) a list of potential matriculating and open students (at top here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) on the WUaS MediaWiki sidehttps://web.archive.org/web/20150324001526/http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - paralleling the Wikipedia side) with b) how they might query the above SUBJECT TEMPLATE and WUaS Course Catalog +

And from these and in conversation with this Wikidata community, I hope to be able to extrapolate how list generation in Wikipedia/Wikidata works, and from this develop a Wikipedia/Wikidata help page for this for others. 

Thank you. 

Kind regards, Scott

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Hi Scott,
Thanks for your suggestion!

I'd love to have more good information on using Wikidata. I assume, though, that putting it to the Scenarios for List generation input maybe not the best place (although the name suggests input in general, and I am guilty of not choosing a more specific title!)

The scenarios currently concern sharing the (real life) workflows of people who generate lists, so it may run counter the idea of suggesting/teaching workflows there (although a beginners might find them to be useful examples!)

If you want to create such a help page, feel free to link them on the List generation Input page (as said above, the title might suggest such content).
Kind Regards,
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Tulip: Fascinating MIT Media Lab conversations with Julia Reda, Member of the European Parliament and Pirate Party of Germany about copyright and other things, Harvard's Martin Nowak and MIT's Joi Ito, and MIT Media Lab Director Fellow Sultan Al-Qassemi and Joi Ito Conversation

Previous: Liliaceae: [Wikidata] List generation input, Exploring creating a "Wikipedia-Wikidata List Generation" help page per your suggestion, Three lists as examples for understanding how this would work on both the Wikipedia and Wikidata sides, 1) a) a list of all 7,943+ languages (http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) on the Wikipedia with b) WUaS's SUBJECT TEMPLATE, 2) a) a list of all CC MIT OCW courses (http://ocw.mit.edu/) in 7 languages (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) on the Wikipedia side, with b) a WUaS Course Catalog, 3) a) a list of potential matriculating and open students (at top here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) on the WUaS MediaWiki sidehttps://web.archive.org/web/20150324001526/http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - paralleling the Wikipedia side) with b) how they might query the above SUBJECT TEMPLATE and WUaS Course Catalog +
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Conversation with Julia Reda, MEP and Pirate Party of Germany about copyright and other things


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJGLpGGFtRg


Martin Nowak and Joi Ito conversation - August 26, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNdCTSTcRU



Sultan Al-Qassemi and Joi Ito Conversation


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAfuT7a0YU

https://www.media.mit.edu/people/sultanq


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Golden trevally: Mind-expanding - Genies out of the bottle? MIT's Joi Ito & Harvard's Martin Nowak To Evolution+ at WUaS Subjects, Cancer Biology databases planned for all 204 countries and and 7,943 languages at WUaS, Magnus Manske on archaeological coordinates missing in Wikidata - To "Archaeology"& "Wikidata...Ecosystem"… Planning for wiki Google Street View w Time Slider as film-realistic VIRTUAL EARTH, University Ave, Palo Alto (near Stanford) Arts Festival, Sunny pleasant day, Free music - a little on-the-ground Information Technology Age Sunday Afternoon Ethnography, new and old Apple Computer store, Phenomenology of Mind-Phänomenologie des Geistes in English&German, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Hegel, 14 planned revenue streams at WUaS, Thanks, Professeur Monsieur Bruno @Latourbot ...


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/golden-trevally-mind-expanding-genies.html

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Medicinal plants: If WUaS Law & CS students could help write BitCoinBlockChain code in ALL languages needed, with banks, could we also help write tax systems?, Curious how EU's experience w Euro & 28 countries re unification & Brussels could inform BitCoin in 200 WUaS Law Schs, How might Jullia Reda & MIT's Joi Ito help navigate BitCoin thru Brussels & in all 200 countries re WUaS Law Schs, learning from EURO, What about tax dis-incentives for CO2 generation re BitCoin in each countries' official language, tax code & WUaS Law/CS students' coding?, And all for student learning - to give students learning opportunities in the law and in computer science in these regards - in all countries' official and banking languages?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/09/medicinal-plants-if-wuas-law-cs.html



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Hi Koh, Ants, Scot, Dorota and Marc, 

Scottish Country Dancing magical car-pooling bus to the Mission begins at Mrs. Fujinaga's around 6:30 in Cole Valley on Thursday for the free introductory class.

Here are some our Clan tents from the Scottish Games in Pleasanton on Sunday, blog post (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com with Joi-san-Ito-sen in a few recent posts:) from today to follow -

Campbell tent - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/772598211710029824
Fraser tent - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/772598100699467777

Hoping to be hired by MIT Media Lab beginning January 1 in a junior faculty position - and ideally from out here!

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Hi Tegan!

Very nice to talk with you at the Scottish Games at Pleasanton on Sunday. (Your Mom is a great historian of Clan MacLeod and makes the MacLeod tent very hospitable:).

Here's Betsy Skrip, an animator / artist -
https://twitter.com/betsyskrip - who is working with

recent MIT Ph.D. Sera Thornton -
https://twitter.com/SeraThornton - designing MITx Bio courses, I think.

I posted about some of this at WUaS on August 24th - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/768859475579138048 - and

https://twitter.com/MITxBio/status/768450205092024320

Could be an interesting direction for you to explore, and also re WUaS eventually.

And there's an open free online HarvardX course with the great Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charlie Nesson beginning September 27th called JuryX if you want to experience a model of an enjoyable, well designed and well thought out course - with discussion happening in MIT UnHangouts for example. I'll probably participate in this again as well. You can take this course (although you're probably pretty busy) - it's pretty interesting with interesting learning technologies.

Ideas, questions, thoughts or related ? :)

Friendly MacLeod cheers,
Scott

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Previous years' posts ...



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2013 - 148th Scottish Games

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Birds battling in air: {On toward great piping Stuart Liddell / Gordon Duncan bliss shivers :}, Thunderstruck, Great Highland Bagpipe keys of A flat and B flat major, and prizes, MuseScore - http://musescore.org/ - composing software with bagpipe register, 'In beginning learning "The Desperate Battle" ('An Cath Gailbeach') in Book 7 of Comunn na Piobaireachd (The Piobaireach Society, 1938) from you on Thursday (if we do), will a recording (which I find helpful especially for the nonmensurality of Piobaireachd, landlocked from the cultural musical waters in the air of Piobaireachd land, as I am) be part of the process?'


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Birds abattle in air: Hi Mrs. California MacLeod and All :), Clan MacLeod Society tent at Scottish Games at Pleasanton, "MacLeod Piping Stories & Traditions and some of PM Donald MacLeod's Bagpipe Music"


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Scottish birds of prey: Inspired by the Scottish Games at Pleasanton, California, to further flying with the great piper Stuart Liddell, in these recent (and new to me) videos ... Glad to have taken bagpiping prizes

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/scottish-birds-of-prey-inspired-by.html


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Yosemite: Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton, They're fun, colorful, somehow both serene and high energy, Curious how Scottish culture (or identity) at such Games informs a milieu that is transformative, such as to Scots' kinds of happiness or Scots' ways of knowing, Am enjoying Corvus Corax from Germany and their piping on bagpipes from the Middle Ages, Also enjoying the great piping of Stuart Liddell in Scotland

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/yosemite-scottish-highland-games-at.html

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American paddlefish: Online, Musical, Instrument Lessons, Piobaireachd, Competition tunes for Highland Games, In remembrance of the Boston Marathon, for which I think I'll also get first news' PRESS for World University and School (as well as my bagpiping services), Just finishing my first, actual / virtual, Harbin Hot Springs' book this week (9 draft chapters)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/american-paddlefish-online-musical.html

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Northern California dragonflies: During and after a good soak when everything comes into harmony and ease and great concordance, neurophysiologically, Virtual Harbin, Bagpipe competitions, Loving bliss neurosphysiology nine hours a day when desired, with consciousness

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/northern-california-dragonflies-during.html


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2012 - 147th Scottish Games

MacLeod Piping Stories & Traditions (and some of Donald MacLeod's Music)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/macleod-piping-stories-traditions-and.html

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2010 - 145th Scottish Games

Scottish Thistle with Butterfly: Bagpipe Lesson, Pleasanton Highland Games, Musical Sociality, Improving Piping, World Univ's Bagpiping Subject

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/08/scottish-thistle-bagpipe-lesson.html


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Silver Thistle: Pleasanton Scottish Highland Games

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/09/silver-thistle-pleasanton-scottish.html

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Scottish Highland Landscape: If the world, social milieus & landscapes can be seen as musical scores for bliss, Music w bodymind musical instruments

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/09/scottish-highland-landscape-if-world.html


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2009 - 144th Scottish Games

Wild Salmon: Bagpiping as 'Flow,' 144th Pleasanton Highland Games in California, Great Bagpiping

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/09/wild-salmon-bagpiping-as-flow-144th.html

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Peregrine Falcon: Peak Experiences, Pleasanton Highland Games, Loving Bliss

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/09/pleasanton-highland-games.html

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Prairie Falcon: Colorfulness, Pageantry, Identity Affirming Ritual, No Scots' Gaelic Spoken, Symbolism, Communitas

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/09/prairie-falcon-colorfulness-pageantry.html




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Eucalyptus: Excited for MIT & University of California students and faculty to explore entrepreneurialism on the planned for-profit side of WUaS - in all 200 countries' languages and 7,943 languages

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Excited for MIT & University of California students and faculty, to begin, to explore entrepreneurialism on the planned for-profit side of WUaS - in all 200 countries' languages and 7,943+ languages

re this business plan

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html

and as WUaS is a client for a second semester in a row in a UC Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" class to incorporate as a complementary for-profit, beginning soon.



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Zygaena loti: "Naked Harbin Ethnography" at ~ https://www.createspace.com/6072369 ~ Author gets twice the amount of royalties if you order "Naked Harbin Harbin" through the CreateSpace eBookstore - with this discount code, Into a virtual Harbin for the next book!

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Hi All,
My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" should be available on paper by tomorrow or the weekend! Yay! (It will be awhile until it's available on a Kindle. For one, to go from a 22 page book index on 8.5 x 11 page size paper with many entries and many more page numbers to the smaller Kindle format / screen will be big job.  And maybe an Academic Press at WUaS intern will eventually do this.  :)
Here's the new CreateSpace eBookStore page - https://www.createspace.com/6072369 - for my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" and what I just posted to the book's main web page - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html :

- Author gets twice the amount of royalties if you order "Naked Harbin Harbin" through the CreateSpace eBookstore - https://www.createspace.com/6072369 - than through the Amazon.com bookstore, which book page will become available in 3-5 days from Sep 8, 2016.

- With this discount code - EPUEY368 - "Naked Harbin Ethnography" will cost $59.95 from the CreateSpace eBookstore, and not $64.95 at Amazon.

And into a virtual Harbin for the next book! (D and I visited Harbin together some years ago - not quite her cup of tea, it's a beautiful place in actuality and virtually, as well!:)

See you soon for a party! Scott


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Scott MacLeod's  Naked HarbiEthnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
Foreword by 
Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


To place orders in advance, call:
415 480 4577
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

- Author gets twice the amount of royalties if you order "Naked Harbin Harbin" through the CreateSpace eBookstore - https://www.createspace.com/6072369 - than through the Amazon.com bookstore, which book page will become available in 3-5 days from Sep 8, 2016. 
- W
ith this discount code - EPUEY368 - "Naked Harbin Ethnography" will cost $59.95 from the CreateSpace eBookstore, and not $64.95 than at Amazon, too. - Author's page at Amazon.com http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity 



*AUGUST 28, 2016Naked Harbin Ethnography
NEW BOOK COVER

Naked Harbin Ethnographic Book Front Cover

Naked Harbin Ethnography Back Cover Blurb Anthro Soc Internet Studies



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West Indian manatee: New "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book AVAILABLE for sale ... with Discount Code ... in the CreateSpace eBookstore ... https://www.createspace.com/6072369 ... There are about 180 beautiful color photos! ... with Discount Code here ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ! ... in the new Academic Press at World University and School ... planned in all 7,943 languages!, Click on the Harbin gate link on the book's main page and begin to visit Harbin virtually

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New "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book page in the CreateSpace eBookstore ...

https://www.createspace.com/6072369 ...

with Discount Code here ... EPUEY368 ...

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html !

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There are about 180 beautiful color photos!



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Friday, September 9, 2016 ... 


Naked Harbin Ethnography

List Price: $64.95 

Add to Cart

Naked Harbin Ethnography web page
About the author:
Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's taught the open free "Information Technology and the Network Society" course on Harvard's virtual island and in Google group video Hangouts for many years, where he also teaches anthropology and sociology. He's the founder, president and CEO of World University and School (like Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare - http://worlduniversityandschool.org).

http://scottmacleod.com 

Naked Harbin Ethnography
 

Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin

Authored by Prof Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III
Foreword by Prof Nelson H.H. Graburn
An anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs, virtual Harbin, the 1960s forward, counterculture, virtual worlds and information technology

The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, Internet studies' researchers, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.

Naked Harbin is an actual-virtual ethnographic comparison based on extensive field work at actual Harbin Hot Springs, but comes into direct conversation with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life," which is based on extensive field work in the 3D interactive virtual world of Second Life. My "Naked Harbin" also examines the significance of making a virtual field site for actual-virtual comparison.

After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go play." This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing new methodologies in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or Alternative haven from modernity. Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "be there" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements. Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways. In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar, attractiveness, now mediated digitally. As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this hot springs' retreat center.

- Scott MacLeod

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


Publication Date:
Sep 09 2016
ISBN/EAN13:
0692646132 / 9780692646137
Page Count:
354
Binding Type:
US Trade Paper
Trim Size:
8.5" x 11"
Language:
English
Color:
Full Color
Related Categories:
Social Science / Anthropology / General


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Thursday, September 8, 2016 ... 



Naked Harbin Ethnography

List Price: $64.95 

This title is still being prepared for sale and should be ready soon.

Naked Harbin Ethnography web page
About the author:
Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's taught the open free "Information Technology and the Network Society" course on Harvard's virtual island and in Google group video Hangouts for many years, where he also teaches anthropology and sociology. He's the founder, president and CEO of World University and School (like Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare - http://worlduniversityandschool.org).

http://scottmacleod.com 

Naked Harbin Ethnography
 

Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin

Authored by Prof Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III
Foreword by Prof Nelson H.H. Graburn
An anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs, virtual Harbin, the 1960s forward, counterculture, virtual worlds and information technology

The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, Internet studies' researchers, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.

Naked Harbin is an actual-virtual ethnographic comparison based on extensive field work at actual Harbin Hot Springs, but comes into direct conversation with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life," which is based on extensive field work in the 3D interactive virtual world of Second Life. My "Naked Harbin" also examines the significance of making a virtual field site for actual-virtual comparison.

After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go play." This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing new methodologies in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or Alternative haven from modernity. Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "be there" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements. Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways. In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar, attractiveness, now mediated digitally. As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this hot springs' retreat center.

- Scott MacLeod

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


ISBN/EAN13:
0692646132 / 9780692646137
Page Count:
354
Binding Type:
US Trade Paper
Trim Size:
8.5" x 11"
Language:
English
Color:
Full Color
Related Categories:
Social Science / Anthropology / General

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...  in the new Academic Press at World University and School ...

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

... planned in all 7,943 languages!

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Someone asked:
Can you explain a little about the book? Are you writing about your feelings about Harbin? Did you collect other people's feelings?

And I replied:


My Harbin book is about many many aspects of Harbin and its pools, but kind of about "hippies to the hot springs" from the 1960s and from 1972 when Ish bought the property forward. There's a great poem beginning Chapter 9 on p 274 re wonderful Harbin feelings, and I hope in the virtual Harbin to emerge (in something like Google Street View with time slider, with OpenSim - click on the Harbin gate link here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - part way down) that you'll and all of us will be able to visit Harbin virtually, soak from home, and share our feelings - and wonderful ones - :)

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Adansonia: News, Announcements & Minutes-to-come for open monthly business meeting at World University and School

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Sep. 10, 2016 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School


World University and School

{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)

Sep. 10, 2016

9 a.m., Pacific Time



Email - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - 

if you'd like to participate.

News: 

a) 
WUaS will be a "client" in a UC Berkeley Law course this autumn for a second semester in a row, partly to explore forking WUaS into a FOR-PROFIT, to complement the NON-PROFIT, per these planned revenue streams - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html. Thank you, Professor Kell!

b)
Exploring entrepreneurialism at WUaS: 

Excited potentially for MIT & University of California students and faculty to explore entrepreneurialism on the planned for-profit side of WUaS - in all 200 countries' languages as "Harvards of the Web" and in 7,943 languages - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/09/eucalyptus-excited-for-mit-university.html

c)
Virtual earth classroom ahead at World University: a film-realistic, group build-able, 3D, interactive virtual earth with avatars as STEM research site in all 7,943 languages - and at the a) street view, b) neuronal (cellular) and nano (atomic) levels (e.g. like Google Street View with time slider, with OpenSimulator, conceptually, but very precise). 

d)
Virtual earth "classroom" will emerge out of newly published on-paper "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book: 

by Scott MacLeod
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
Academic Press at World University and School


- Author gets twice the amount of royalties if you order "Naked Harbin Ethnography" through the CreateSpace eBookstore -https://www.createspace.com/6072369 - than through the Amazon.com bookstore, which book page will become available in 3-5 days from Sep 8, 2016. 
- With this discount code - EPUEY368 - "Naked Harbin Ethnography" will cost $59.95 from the CreateSpace eBookstore, and not $64.95 than at Amazon, too. 
- Author's page at Amazon.com ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity 

e)
Students can add their names to the form here in applying to WUaS at this time  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org ...

Sincerely, 
Scott


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Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" course, 2nd semester - third semester for a $90 million IPO?

How do we file it?

How does we keep it distinct from the non-profit one?

separate bank accounts?

How would we set up an IPO - for a third semester?

Rebecca Lynn - https://twitter.com/VCRebecca?

Sales?


2
Finance

a
Treasurer's report

(Now members of Friends Association of Higher Education)

b
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slide-guide-killer-investor-pitch-elizabeth-kraus

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/08/wuass-business-plan-update-and-with.html

c

15 slides

We're a not for profit organization - and instead we're trying to give students free education - therefore we need to find a source to pay our expenses

and some of this can be from contributions

...
but we're also developing a for-profit side and its function is to support the non-profit side

... the organization as a whole is not trying to make a profit ...



3
Branding WUaS

a
outreach video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI


b
Harbin book in new Academic Press at World University and School

c
Quakers re outreach


4
I.T. - and IPO? - Wikidata?


5
MIT Media Lab junior faculty position (for Scott) and IPO?

a
ICYMI: Gene editing star CRISPR Therapeutics files for $90M IPO
https://twitter.com/JohnCendpts/status/774575588292104193
where CRISPR's Kevin Esvelt is MIT Media Lab professor
https://twitter.com/kesvelt

b
Bitcoin and BlockChain

c
Planned revenue streams -
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html


6
Accreditation


7
Closure



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- World University and School

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Samara (fruit): This is where Stuart LIddell goes with Amazing Grace, What I appreciate about Stuart Liddell, Kathryn Tickell, Maddy Prior/Steeleye Span is their skill in playing (to my ear), the sound of their instrument/voice ... and their vision (Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten yoga teachers, the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers, musically, before 1980) ... how to explore vision as group conversation and our own individual visions for music-making?

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This is where Stuart LIddell goes with Amazing Grace - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClkYg4MTKyw - thank him (and YouTube) very much ... :)


Amazing Grace (Pipes & Sticks On Route 66 Concert) (Live)

On with the "Amazing Grace Project" (your name, Bruce!) :) 


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Brilliant, Alan - works well - I added Amazing Grace pts 1 & 2, as well as a Hambo in PDF. 

Here's the Scottish Smallpipes wiki subject at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - before we move to a new wiki, with further resources, to which we can all add, as well :)

Off to play bass lines on a keyboard at a Scottish Country Dance in SF shortly here ..

Musical cheers, Scott

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Hi All, 

From my end, besides GHB Stuart LIddell and Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell being far-reachingly great musician - and inspirations for me in many ways - Maddy Prior, the lead singer in the folk rock group Steeleye Span, singing since the 1960s, is another great for me - http://www.pandora.com/station/play/2741705303108037 .


Musical cheers, Scott

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Hi Music-makers, 

Curious what the musical instruments of SSPs, voices and group video can do in creating a new genre or group or similar 50 years out, which people would choose to listen to again and again (comparably to a Pandora - with its "genome" or themes of each channel - or Spotify channel today of music from 50 years ago; what can we learn from such "musical genome" thinking too from which to build?). 

And how might we shape something novelly beautiful (yet somehow classic and riffing too with tradition) ... and even together in group video (as a kind of instrument - go figure:)? ... I listened to Tommy Makem of some of the folks you've mentioned in the 1970s, Alan, because I was drawn somehow to his music; haven't been drawn as much to the other folks you've mentioned. And group selection of beautiful tunes to make music with (e.g. many OpenBand musicians on a Monday evening at SCD would agree and say they like these 2 tunes better than the other 8 tunes of the evening ... in comparison with, say, I, Scott, or you, Bruce, finding this one SCD tune really beautiful on this Monday, even though everybody (including or not us) finds those other 2 tunes beautiful ... has to do with tastes, but I think it's great when Deadheads, for example, emerge en masse, and all like the same tunes again and again because of how the Grateful Dead played uniquely them). What's GD inspired SSP music? :)

Some quick riffs with your emails Alan ... 

See you Monday at OpenBand, Bruce and Rees? And when, Bruce might we meet to get you and I connected in group video? 

More later :), Scott


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Found this version of Lindisfarne as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJ_-u4htQc - with organ. It seems to be a Kathryn Tickell signature tune on Pandora too which channel also seems to begin with her "Northumberland Collection" album, and sometimes with its version of Lindisfarne. Nice to tune - with nice harmonies.

Email as conversation > into our own individual and group recordings of piping and singing (and other instruments) > into generative musical conversation with each other (as developing method for music generation)? 

What I appreciate about Stuart Liddell, Kathryn Tickell, Maddy Prior/Steeleye Span is their skill in playing (to my ear), the sound of their instrument/voice ... and their vision (Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten yoga teachers, the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers, musically, before 1980) ... how to explore vision as group conversation and our own individual visions for music-making?

In planning to take lessons with Stuart Liddell beginning next month online, I hope to explore a generative face-to-face interactive learning conversation ... and especially re the beauty of the tunes he plays - and the way he plays tunes (out of the Green CoP Tutor, for example, too, interestingly ...).

And re the Monday night OpenBand tunes and Scottish small piping, and beauty of tunes - say from the pink and blue books, or the loose music shared via email - there are only typically a few tunes in D with 2 sharps in the range of the SSP chanter (in the key of A), (and while tunes in A can work too, the 7th can be off - due to the mixolydian scale of the bagpipe, where the 7th is natural )- and I haven't explored the tunes in G for the wee D SSP chanter. Bruce, have you explored playing tunes in G on the wee D SSP chanter? 

Group video as musical instrument, too? :) For example, how to engage the lag of internet streaming musically ("Embrace the lag" vis-a-vis conductor and composer Eric Whitacre?)

How to extrapolate from the Amazing Grace version we have on sheet music to writing 4 parts for SSP sheet music with harmonies ? Bruce - might you give us a hands-on-in-video partial lesson in the MuseScore technologies of this ? And Barbara - might you be able to give us a lesson in group video on harmony writing even? (Wonderful Barbara Salisbury, originally from England and living in Berkeley, was playing in the OpenBand until this spring until she developed a back issue :( ). 
 
See you Tuesday night at 8pm, Alan, Pacific Time with you in NZ? And see you Bruce and Rees, Monday night at OpenBand at St. Clement's Church at 8pm PT perhaps? 

Cheers, Scott
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Hi Alan,

How about a) Scots Whae Hae (first tune in CoP Green Tutor which Rees and I know), b) Amazing Grace with its 5 part harmonies on sheet music already (and words!) - I'd like to take advantage of singing harmony with SSP given the new-ish for me bellows (and A.G. is not fast, is pretty, and I know it) -  and c) Lindisfarne? (A.G. is beautiful and "old" - a little like "Gaudete" -  - for Steeleye Span?)

Appreciating the interesting ideas you're sharing.

It's Steeleye Span's corpus of old Scots' and related tunes that OpenBand's sheet music on SSP could come into conversation with :)

Recording of that Ur-Scots' song, Robbie Burns' too - Scots Whae Hae here too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

I'd like Music Playing Spaces to be for independent playing/practicing especially, yet socially.

And, depending where you'd like to head with PLAY with SSP, I'd encourage you to seek out a piping teacher and lessons, too, Alan, per these Guidelines on practicing http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm too .. and outside the Music Playing Space. Bruce or Rees, might be available to give lessons, since Alan is new to piping? Is there someone in NZ who comes to mind as a piping teacher? (We could talk more about piping lessons as well).

Group video is actually very helpful for piping lessons on the practice chanter (and potentially SSP) because people aren't playing in unison typically (yet). (It's for playing together that I hope something new from Google will emerge  for example - cell phones with Hangouts but not to NZ could help).

I'm going to try recording myself playing or singing A.G. for practicing of learning how to sing with my SSP :) - (a good suggestion from my current teacher Lorne MacDougal in Glasgow and Carradale).

Cheers, Scott


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