Live Free Learn Free Blog » 2007 » August <title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/themes/thirteen/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/rss/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/atom/" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php" /> <style type="text/css"> </style> <link rel='archives' title='August 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='February 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/02/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/03/' /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php?rsd" /> </head> <body> <div id="headwrapper"> <div id="header"> <h1 id="title"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog">Live Free Learn Free Blog</a></h1> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <div class="post" id="post-293"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/27/find-the-thing-you-love/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Find the Thing You Love">Find the Thing You Love</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> August 27th, 2007 at 10:45 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div > Here is a fabulous article on passion and persistence by pro-skateboarder Tony Hawk. </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #4c4c4c; background: #cccccc; border: solid 4px #336600; width: 100%; clear: left;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #cccccc;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="clipmarks' clip-to-blog"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/21da4b65-d866-4eb4-8ab2-80979e03a440/5FDE0549-6248-4C01-A304-C5E49A23E61A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5568583" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5568583" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npr.org</a></td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><br /> <div align="center"><img src="http://content1.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/C5930306-E2C1-41A8-9B71-5624D4FA727D" alt="Tony Hawk" /></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>It’s true. Skateboarding doesn’t seem like real work, but I’m proud of what I do. My parents never once questioned the practicality behind my passion, even when I had to scrape together gas money and regarded dinner at Taco Bell as a big night out.</P></td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.</P></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/27/find-the-thing-you-love/#respond" title="Comment on Find the Thing You Love">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-289"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/23/new-issue-new-book-new-site/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to New Issue, New Book, New Site…">New Issue, New Book, New Site…</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> August 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/the-magazine/" title="View all posts in The Magazine" rel="category tag">The Magazine</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>The newest issue is almost ready to send to the printers’, and (as usual) I’m so excited to watch it turn from a notebook full of printed-off, marked-up articles into a beautiful, inspiring magazine. It’s always such a joy to hold that first copy in my hands. You can read more about the newest issue at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/current.htm">LFLF website</a>.</p> <p>Since the magazine is being published more irregularly now, I’ve reflected that change on the site. Every subscription is still six issues, but the average time between issues is about 3 months. As an unschooling mother with an active 9-year-old boy and an ever-growing, highly-demanding business, this change will take <strong>a lot</strong> of weight off my shoulders.</p> <p>Also, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cafepress.com/lflfmagazine.162974059"><em>Live Free Learn Free: The First Year</em></a> is finally out!! We’ve gathered together each issue from our first year and bound them together into a beautiful book filled with unschooling wisdom from organic learners. <em>Live Free Learn Free: The Second Year</em> will likely be finished within a few days, and I’ll be announcing both of them, along with the newest issue, when everything’s ready.</p> <p>Finally, I wanted to let you in on a secret I’ve been keeping. The website has been undergoing an enormous redesign. It will sport a completely different look and feel, as well as a new, more intuitive structure. We’re also including more information on unschooling in general, a calendar of unschooling events and cool happenings, an interactive section on unschooling in the news, and much more. Overall, the site will be more community-based and informative, and more easily navigable. We’re all impatiently working to get the redesign up and running, but we have no set timetable, as it’s really a labor of love. Hopefully, we’ll be announcing the new site with the next few months. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/23/new-issue-new-book-new-site/#respond" title="Comment on New Issue, New Book, New Site...">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-288"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/16/whos-editing-wikipedia/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Who’s Editing Wikipedia?">Who’s Editing Wikipedia?</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> August 16th, 2007 at 1:49 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div > I love Wikipedia. I really do. But deep down, I knew this was going on, and it’s nice to have proof. </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #4c4c4c; background: #cccccc; border: solid 4px #336600; width: 100%; clear: left;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #cccccc;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="clipmarks' clip-to-blog"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/ae1ac87b-cc07-4745-a260-3dbb6dd5e877/59771E29-B47C-47BC-8DC0-A7820F69F3B0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12823729&ft=1&f=1" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12823729&ft=1&f=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npr.org</a></td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P><SPAN class="program"><EM><A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3">Morning Edition</A>, </EM></SPAN><SPAN class="date">August 16, 2007 � </SPAN> You might have suspected it, and ignored it until now in your online life: <A target="_BLANK" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</A> isn’t the most reliable reference. It’s just often the first source to come up when you do an online search. </P></td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>If you follow the IP address trail, you’ll see that often the editors of an entry are “interested parties,” not just encyclopedia nerds who want to make sure the facts are straight. </P></td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>The trail to wiki-understanding was forged by Virgil Griffith, a California Institute of Technology grad student. He created a database called the <A target="_BLANK" href="http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/">Wikipedia Scanner</A>, a search tool that traces the comments and edits on Wikipedia entries back to their source IP address. The once-anonymous writers behind the entries are no longer quite so anonymous. </P></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/16/whos-editing-wikipedia/#respond" title="Comment on Who's Editing Wikipedia?">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-287"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/12/new-widget/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to New Widget!">New Widget!</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> August 12th, 2007 at 10:28 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>With a little (okay, a lot of) help from my brother and webmaster extraordinaire Sean, I’ve installed a new widget on the sidebar of the blog. Now you can see random selections of unschooling books and our favorite resources attainable through Amazon. Very cool little plugin, once we finally got it working correctly. Click refresh a few times and see what pops up! </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/12/new-widget/#respond" title="Comment on New Widget!">Comments</a> </p> </div> <p> </p> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <li id="meta"> <h2>Meta</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-login.php">Login</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" title="Syndicate this site using RSS">Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/comments/feed/" title="The latest comments to all posts in RSS">Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="search"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="/blog/index.php"> <p> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="submit" value="Search" /> </p> </form> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="Powered by Wordpress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">Powered by Wordpress</a> · Design by <a href="http://beccary.com" title="Theme designed by Beccary">Beccary</a> and <a href="http://weblogs.us" title="Theme sponsored by Weblogs.us">Weblogs.us</a> · <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional"><abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a> · <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" title="This page validates as CSS"><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr></a> </p> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=605365; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=4; var sc_security="d224bf47"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=605365&java=0&security=d224bf47&invisible=1" alt="free stats" border="0"></a> </noscript>  </body> </html>