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Go, Go, Cow Go!

2:27pm JST Saturday 23 May 2009 (day 14304)

Met Miwa in Omori at 10am for our intro-lesson. She seems keen (and signed up), but doesn't yet know when she will have time to schedule her first lesson. Maybe she wants to have a non-me teacher. No worries; I want all our students to have the perfect match for a teacher!

Met Naoki at 11am in Omori for our 5th lesson or so. 4th or 5th I think. We talked about the Kindle, the focus of an article by Tim O'Reilly. Wondered about different ways electronic books can change the face of the medium. I liked O'Reilly's point that the current Kindle is like pointing a camera at a stage performance and calling it a movie.

Naoki and I thought about different ways, from Interactive Fiction, to stories being read aloud by computer generated voices of the different characters in the book. No one steal my idea, okay?

Then zoom up to Shibuya to meet Shuntaro for our first intro-lesson. He actually signed up with Cow-Go and scheduled our first lesson for this Saturday. For homework, he'll be writing a blog in English; I hope he chooses a site that has English navigation.

Headed to Tachikawa now for RC meeting.