Greetings to family and friends. May you and yours have a blessed holiday season. The year 2007 has been a wonderful and eventful year for me. I hope that my 2008 and yours will be progressive and positive.
Peace and good will toward all of humanity
JAMES PETER NEAL, III
I apologize for not blogging much over the past two months. However my new job and the vagaries of my life have been occupying a great deal of my time. I will have much to report very soon. I hope all is well out there in the world with my friends and family. The blessed holiday season is upon us and I plan to enjoy.
HOME! After a great two weeks of education and training in Cleveland, it was nice to sleep in my own bed last night and then wake up this morning to breakfast at Flying Star where I ran into good ABQ friends. I'm so glad to be home.
I feel sorry for Hope Solo and the women's U.S. soccer team but I was amazed by the brilliance of the Brazilian female soccer star Marta.
I can't put him in the people I admire category of this blog yet but I will say that my thoughts about this gentleman have been provoked by my recent fortutious discovery of his work. I was recently listening to an interview between Danah Boyd and Henry Jenkins that I linked to from Danah's web site. Danah is a force unto herself and I thank her for exposing me to Henry Jenkins. Danah's interview with Jenkins took place at the SXSW festival a few years ago. Nonetheless I was more intrigued by the recent headline that passed across my computer desktop from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus alert. That headline reads "Is MIT's Henry Jenkins the Marshall McLuhan of the Web 2.0 Era?". I've long been a fan of Marshall McLuhan who I was first exposed to by my own father as a child. To compare someone to McLuhan would definitely get my attention.
You will find a link to the interview between Danah Boyd and Henry Jenkins on Danah's del.icio.us page here.
The article from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus about Henry Jenkins is here.
Jenkins also has a wonderful website and blog here.
I think this guy will evenutally become a person that I admire.
NOTE TO SELF: Summer is over. Fall is at the doorstep. It's time to organize and be increasingly productive. Here are some goals to keep you eyes on the prize.
Finish reading that last 50 or so odd pages of Ilan Stavans book On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language.
Organize your del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.com accounts and keep them updated.
Devote attention to grammar and vocabulary study with an eye towared beginning studying for the LSAT.
Systematize Spanish language study to include focus on verbs and vocabularly related to kitchen and cuisine.
RIDE YOUR BIKE EVERY MORNING THAT YOU CAN ON THE BOSQUE BIKE PATH!
A complete definition is in order here because I can tell by the vast number of people on the street, family and friends that I ask about the subject; most people don't know what net neutrality is or what it means. Futhermore while I have a vague understanding of what it means I must do more research. However I do know one thing for certain, the Internet is such an awesome tool that truly promotes freedom of access to information that I hate seeing any authority, govermental or corporate, exercising undue control over access and the content of the Internet. I began researching issues of net neutrality over a year ago but kind of fell off in my efforts. I was prompted to do so again after reading some troubling news from these sources Wired.com, the AP wire, and ZDNet.
Go ahead and search for "Net Neutrality" and see what you come up with. Some good starting points are here, here, and here.
