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More attention for the silent launch of the Bates Social beta. "We’re always in search of fresh thinking on issues that affect nonprofit marketing." - Jay Collier

"We need a robust, free to use platform that thrives under many of the same values which the open source movement holds dear. The growth of such a community around the publishing software used by student newspapers would be of tremendous value to everyone, especially because most papers aren’t in competing markets." - Jay Collier

"For student newspapers looking to grow their technical capacity, CoPress offers top of the line managed hosting at affordable rates. In addition to transitioning college news sites to open-source platforms, other projects we’re working include the development of WordPress plugins and educational workshops. Collaboration is key; any success that the project has seen thus far is due to the partnership between a strong community and a talented team. We are strong advocates of transparency." - Jay Collier

Yet another tablet rumor, but I want a touch screen that I can actually type (and write) on. 7 inch would be just big enough. January? - Jay Collier

"What makes open video an essential part of an engaged, inclusive media sphere? How does open video promote free speech, diversity, and participation?" Note: WordPress now supporting OGG Theora. - Jay Collier

What does it feel like to fall / in slow motion despite it all? / There's no time to think it through / when we're connected over the blue. / Everything is moving so fast. / I am unlimited. - Jay Collier

This can't be real. But it is. "After taking Ambien CR, you may get up out of bed while not being fully awake and do an activity that you do not know you are doing. The next morning, you may not remember that you did anything during the night ... including... driving a car ("sleep-driving"), making and eating food, talking on the phone, having sex." - Jay Collier

"I’ve been thnking quite a bit lately about the merging domains of traditional, static web site design, and social networking. Jay Collier at the Bates Online Media group has recently blogged on the subject, and how it is influencing the Bates College site content." - Jay Collier

"This report... explores how networks are changing philanthropy and social change ... and goes beyond the basic description of networks and social media tools from the first piece to provide helpful advice on how to start working wikily." - Jay Collier

"Entrepreneur. Programmer. Open-minded experimenter. Multimedia storyteller. Social journalist and community builder. Blogger and curator. Multi-skilled. With fundamental journalism skills." - Jay Collier

"Every day, something we make, makes your life better ... usually." - Jay Collier

"Individuals. We believe everyone is special. Irreplaceable. And will follow the thing walking in front of it. That's why we celebrate all individuals. Even those going nowhere." - Jay Collier

"The human brain today is the same as the human brain 10,000 years ago. ... Many of the skills needed to use computers [weren't] highly useful [to the cavemen].. Such skills include remembering obscure codes from one screen to the next and interpreting highly abbreviated form-field labels. It's no surprise that people are no good at these skills, since they weren't important for survival in the ancestral environment." - Jay Collier

"Bojaio Sun, who grew up in China's Jiangxi province, is ... one of a growing number of Chinese students [enrolling as undergraduates in the U.S.] Last year alone, 98,510 Chinese graduate and undergraduate students poured into U.S. colleges and universities, lured by China's emphasis on academic achievement and the prestige of U.S. higher education." - Jay Collier

"Think you understand the academic grounding of the TV show Lost? Can you explain in detail how Desmond Hume might be actually able to travel through time using worm theory? Can you see similarities between the rifle-toting jungle woman Rousseau and Jean-Jacques Rousseau? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you could be at the top of the class at the newly opened Lost University." - Jay Collier

Best VD tag line. "Developing the next generation of food. And food-like products." (Better Off Ted.) See also NPR closer. http://bit.ly/4CvPfv - Jay Collier

Especially interesting is #5: "The more people can get their hands on the right info, at home and on the go; the more they date and network and twitter and socialize online, the more likely they are to eventually meet up with friends and followers in the real world. Why? Because people actually enjoy interacting with other warm bodies, and will do so forever." - Jay Collier

"Social media has created an interesting rupture in the landscape. Youth turn to it to reclaim unstructured social encounters, to create a public space that allows them to simply hang out with their friends, peers, and cohort. The flirting, gossiping, and joking around that takes place is not proof that social media is useless, but proof that it's extremely valuable." - Jay Collier

"Social media has created an interesting rupture in the landscape. Youth turn to it to reclaim unstructured social encounters, to create a public space that allows them to simply hang out with their friends, peers, and cohort. The flirting, gossiping, and joking around that takes place is not proof that social media is useless, but proof that it's extremely valuable." - Jay Collier

"The knowledge I am acquiring at school is merely one kind of knowledge, and I want to seek out knowledge in all its forms. Perhaps it is this other knowledge that will give me the power I am seeking: the power of appreciation, of sympathy, of connectedness, of understanding." - Jay Collier

"I am forever indebted to China for the gift of our daughters. But I do not forget that frightened Chinese mothers had to give up their babies because of government policies that lead to the abandonment—and worse—of little girls. ... We have come to think of Thanksgiving as a holiday for families like us: Those who know that America, whatever its sins, is a refuge in the world." - Jay Collier

"It is with a heavy hearts that we write to let you know that our mom, Pat Collier, passed away at 5:25 at this morning." - Jay Collier

2002: "As Americans have become ever more mobile, and as the social and physical environments we inhabit have become increasingly standardized and interchangeable, the longing for the local, the special, the unique becomes ever more acute. ... The real Maine has been a magnet for tourists for almost as long as it has been a state, and this, paradoxically, may be why it has retained a feeling of authenticity that other parts of northern New England have lost." - Jay Collier

"CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit." - Jay Collier

"It looks like the incredible success of the lipdub produced by students from UQAM in Montreal, QC (more than 2.5 million views as of this writing) has pushed some institutions in the US to finally join the university lipdub movement." - Jay Collier

Is parody the sincerest form of flattery? - Jay Collier

Deliberately inflammatory post -- "abuse" "lynching" "flaying" -- or accidentally biased? In any case, the tactic worked. Look at the number of thoughtful comments. Sage on the stage, 1; Wisdom of the noosphere, priceless. Here comes everybody. - Jay Collier

Setting the alarm to see the day-after-peak show. - Jay Collier

Allows "students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience." Next-generation of Harvard Live-Question http://bit.ly/1AWqJm - Jay Collier

Is fate preordained? Is there reason to be optimistic that we have control of creating our future? - Jay Collier