Start the week off right and consider the big issues and ideas that will define your future and our shared future. Start with a good laugh, or a good cry. In either case, start here with Charlie Rose. Charlie is a well-known interviewer on US public television. Charlie once said, according to the CharlieRose.com “beta” web site, “I believe there is a place in the spectrum of television for really good conversation, if it is informed, spirited, soulful.”
Here is “Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett.”

Thanks for the link from Scott Heiferman, who got it from ZeFrank, and thanks most of all to the editor, filmmaker Andrew Filippone Jr.

If you read the iFOCOS blog THIS carefully, you deserve something for paying such close attention. So here’s something: a sneak peak at our newest research project, Random Acts of Media.

RAM is both research and a collaborative gallery and art project about how people around the world experience media. Our first formal report for RAM is about how the spring 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech university in the US signaled a permanent shift in the way journalism is practiced and distributed in the connected society. You’ll also find a curated gallery of images we’ve selected for exhibit, and a collaboration gallery we hope you’ll use to add more images, videos and insights. Hope you like it.