dead words on dead wood cc-by lemasney
Here’s an illustration of the idea that messages printed on paper, books and magazines are “dead words on dead wood”, and while a great many […]

Dead words on dead wood cc-by lemasney

Google before you Tweet is the new Think before you speak - LeMasney Consulting
So I recently gave a class at Princeton Public Library on Google Drive. I speak about it frequently to organizations and internal groups as well. It is a topic that is nearly as close to my heart as visual literacy, and one that strongly affects the way I learn, work, and live. The accompanying presentation is at this link on Google Drive. And that, in effect, is part of the power of it. I can control who gets what kind of access to all of my documents going back to my first digital document, and can grant access or editing rights with a link.

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When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. cc-by lemasney 1
Hacking is the art of understanding something in a complete way, mastering it, for the sake of changing it to meet a need. Usually the result of hacking is innovations not introduced or intended in the original designs. Open source systems promote and benefit from hacking. Proprietary or closed systems make it harder to do that. Information, knowledge and recipes should be free, as in freedom.

My philosophy regarding the benefits of hacking