Comments on: Uttercast: Steal This Idea http://doughaslam.com/2008/11/07/uttercast-steal-this-idea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uttercast-steal-this-idea Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind" Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:01:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Tremblay http://doughaslam.com/2008/11/07/uttercast-steal-this-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-1713 Ben Tremblay Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:34:25 +0000 http://doughaslam.com/2008/11/07/uttercast-steal-this-idea/#comment-1713 The best design I've come up with took a matter of minutes to congeal. Or, looking at it another way, it took more than two decades. I spotted a problem with group dynamics that really quashed discussion and thought about that for over 20 yrs. Then late one evening in the stacks of a university library I happened to have two texts open at once ... one on "discourse ethics" (Jurgen Habermas) and another on the Open Access movement (John Willinsky) ... and *klik* literally a Eureka moment. But, key, I'd been priming the pump for years. I thinks that's how it happens. --bentrem p.s. I'm disappointed to see how many people pretend to believe that "good ideas are a dime a dozen". The best design I’ve come up with took a matter of minutes to congeal. Or, looking at it another way, it took more than two decades.
I spotted a problem with group dynamics that really quashed discussion and thought about that for over 20 yrs. Then late one evening in the stacks of a university library I happened to have two texts open at once … one on “discourse ethics” (Jurgen Habermas) and another on the Open Access movement (John Willinsky) … and *klik* literally a Eureka moment.
But, key, I’d been priming the pump for years. I thinks that’s how it happens.

–bentrem

p.s. I’m disappointed to see how many people pretend to believe that “good ideas are a dime a dozen”.

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