I follow the Twitter writings of Ken Smith, an English professor at Indiana University-South Bend. In early July, he had a thought about “power tools of the culture”:
School shouldn’t be so alienating. Young people are entitled to the power tools of the culture.
They like to hear a faculty member say that aloud in class. They like talking about what it entails.
Education:
1) Shouldn’t be so alienating.
2) Power tools of the culture.
Dave Winer referenced this in a podcast that day. I had some thoughts on this as well, so I have created a wiki page collecting items from Ken’s posting over the past month on this topic, as well as my ideas. If anyone has anything to contribute, respond in the comments!
I remember reading about EC2 for Poets many years ago. But it was much shorter. A journalist had tried it & it worked. Dave was very pleased!
Then Amazon changed something & it no longer worked, so Dave told people not to try it any more. I found out about it a year after it stopped working.
Does this much longer one work? I was smarter though. I found a clever guy I was able to pay to get a River of News working for me. Much easier!
Ron,
I think that finding someone else to set up a server is easier in the short run. However, my book on setting up a server on Amazon Web Services (linked from the wiki page in the post) is still probably a good method.