my friend jenny cool had a dream (relayed by a common friend)

that I was on tv, doing justin's web makeovers, like beauty
with a studio audience ooing and aahing as I presented folks with the way a background image or header tag might change their whole outlook

so I started to think, about how much I enjoyed being on tv with denise, the positive feedback I recieved therefrom,
that I can talk to you and feel that you are in the right place with regards to creativity and spirit,

and so I wondered this:

(if not justin's web makeovers)

a three to five minute segment (or 10 or 20?) with me on camera, and a featured web site or person of the day. not necessarily a person or web site of much fame or destinction.

as I speak with them, and/or run the site on the screen, I give tips and wisdom on augmenting web presence. how to expand your personality online. how to reach people through the wires. what specifically can be done for the first half, and then take that and expound upon it as a general means of carrying yourself online to round it out.

it's a least worth a pilot I imagine.

I would love to explore this, or other ideas you might have over lunch sometime soon.

thanks for your time,
justin

bob -

thanks for your availability.

I'm thinking about a lot of things, trying not to take them too seriously.

when I think about swarthmore, and I'm still not sure what I'll be doing next semester,

when I think about swarthmore I have some questions that I hope we can work on to make imagining swarthmore easier.

thanks.

I spoke to tom blackburn about getting credit for my original work at wired/hotwired in the fall of 1994. he told me I had to write a paper about it. I've done a lot of writing. he and I didn't really "click," right; I never got around to codifying that work and presenting it to the school for credit.
- it being already a year passed, more than a year, can I still present writing or some other means of obtaining credit for that work during my time off?

in addition, I would like to present this summer and this fall for credit units. my summer trip and my work here at electric minds are each worth academic credit. I can explain further if need be; again, I've done some writing about these experiences, compiling these writings and making them academically accessable should be worked out with someone next semester.

it is critical that I live on campus in a dorm that has an ethernet connection. I don't know the situation with ethernetting the dorms, but a reliable and swift connection to the net is critical for the work I will continue to do while I am there.

I would like from the school the power to distribute half credit units and at least some kind of budget - to gather, teach, equip and compensate a group of students active online. with purchased digital cameras and digital audio equipment, we would record on and off campus and render multimedia reports on a college based web site.
I have been loosely organizing similar work during my recent time at swarthmore - the existing organizations (phoenix, bulletin, halcyon, etc) have neither the flexibility nor the budget.

money at swarthmore is both easy and hard to come by - I can write a more cojant proposal. essentially, I would like to see some official swarthmore monetary or acadmic support granted for the teaching and organizing work that I have done and will continue to do. and I don't want to work on the proposal during the next semester, I want to hit the ground running in january.

so, bob, lemme know what you think.
thanks for your time.

gimme a call,
justin