Lee Chu Keong's Tumblelog

Chopin

p. 3

Oct 30, 1849

Church of the Madeleine

p. 4

his friend, Delacroix

arrived in France in 1831

p. 5

portrait by Delacriox

p. 6

death - Oct 17

aged 39

Mozart’s Requiem

p. 7

special dispensation

remained invisible

behind a black velvet curtain

Funeral march from Chopin’s Sonata in b-flat minor

Adam and Alexandre Czartoryski — representated Polish exiles

Eugene Delacroix

cellist and composer — Auguste Franchomme — cello — only instrument other than the piano

Camille Playel — manufacturer of pianos

p. 8

Ludwika — “Please come, if you can.”

Apply for a passport immediately.

No medicine would help him as much as the sight of his sister.

husband — Jozef Kalasany Jedrzejewicz

15 year old daughter

arrived in paris in August

student — Adolf Gutmann

p. 9

princess — Marcelina Czartoryska

Countess Delfina Potocka (rushed from Nice)

Pere Lachaise Cemetary

sculptor — Auguste Clesinger + wife Solange (daughter or George Sand)

mould death mask

funerary monument

Jane Stirling — Scottish heiress

pupil and patroness

paid the bill for the funeral

5000 pounds

supported Chopin in the last year of his life

Absent — George Sand

p. 11

Solange -> Countess Mariliani -> George Sand

Chopin died in Solange’s arms

Sand was in her country house in Nohant

p. 12

p. 13

Fryk-Fryk

Chip-Chip

p. 15

Countess Marie Catherine Sophie de Flacigny d’Agoult

aristocratic French mother

husband and two children

live with Franz Liszt

soirees

Victor Hugo + Rossini + Meyerbeer + Berlioz + Chopin

Aurore Dupin Dudevant

p. 16

Baron Casimir Dudevant

journalist and novelist

Jules Sandeau

George Sand

Geneva

childhood home in Nohant

Hotel de France

Liszt introduced Chopin to George Sand

p. 18

Is that really a woman?

I seriously doubt it.

Something about he repels me

Web 1.0 VS Web 2.0

Educause

Mashing up the Once and Future CMS

By Malcolm Brown

Web 1.0

Publishing

Content management, presentation

Individual, large-scale websites

Directories

User observe, “listen to” websites

Subscription services

They, the media (control held by a few)

Macro content

Authority is key

Versions and major revision

Creator defines content, design

Taxonomy

Value indifferent to amount of usage

Business model

In author we trust

Harnessing of authority’s intelligence

Best-sellers

Control

Example: Encyclopedia Britannica

Web 2.0

Participation

Content reappropriation (e.g., mashups)

Blogs, wikis

Tagging

User add value, co-create

Low-cost or free services

e, the medai (we create the media)

Micro-content

Collective decision-making

Continuous micro-enhancement

User defines content, design

Folksonomy

Value increases the more it is used

Blogosphere

In users we trust

Harnessing of collective intelligence

The “Long Tail”

Cooperation

Example: Wikipedia

Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America

pimp to …

Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454

Shift (Carlos Ghosn)

I’m not addicted to technology for technology’s sake! (p. 193)

Digital Communities of Interest

Paul Ormerod

Digital Communities of Interest

Business Information Review, September 1999

Seven Ages of the Leader

Warren G. Bennis

[1] Infant Executive

[2] Schoolboy, with Shining Face

[3] Lover, with a Woeful Ballad

[4] Beaded Soldier

[5] General, Full of Wise Saws

[6] Statesman, with Spectacles on Nose

[7] Sage, Second Childishness

From Harvard Business Review (January 2004)

Q&A

The brain is not an organ we are authorised to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

Ram Mohammad Thomas

Smita Shah - lawyer

Who Will Win a Billion?

Brian Dyson (Ex-CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises)

To quote the past CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises (1959-1994) Brian Dyson:

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air.  You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit - and you’re keeping all of these in the air.  You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball.  If you drop it, it will bounce back.  But the other four balls - family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass.  If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered.  They will never be the same.  You must understand that and strive for *balance* in your life.

Ten Proto-Bourbaki Meetings

Liliane Beaulieu (1993)

The Mathematical Intelligencer

December 10, 1934 - p. 28

the work of many people will allow better and more thorough coverage

Delsarte is particularly insistent on this issue, but he also realizes that by sharing the writing the group will leave no traces of individual authorship and mau thereby safeguard against future claims to individual property. (p. 28-29)

Law of Definite Proportions (Heys, p. 13)

or, Law of Constant Composition

The same chemical compound, however prepared, always contain the same elements in the same proportions by weight.  (Proust, 1799)