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Your education consists some 90% in reading (and listening),10% in writing (and then mostly not real writing, but faking things which are much too difficult for you) and talking, the play of mind on mind, almost none at all (occasionally you will ask a question in class).  A chasm exists between your education and your personal life.  In the one you sit, stolid, non-responsive, fed information, and in the other you are defined by your interactions with digital media, wherein you are a player in a grand game.  Information in this situation cannot be contained to one source.  Unintentionally, everyone is inspired by everything... when one lives on the web.  And intentionally, inspiration ought to have no limits.  If you see something you want, take it, make it your own.  Remix it.  the first taxonomic level of the remix is the extension. this is the differentiation between values like “album version” and “radio edit.” The second taxonomic level of the remix is the translation, in which a song is re-adapted from its primary genre to a secondary genre. The third is the mash-up. All about the superimposition of well-known songs within one another, the mash-up at best constructs an homage and at worst creates superficial allusions that say “oh listen to that, and that. my wasn’t that something?” These forms of remix are not only personal, they are educational. Not formally so, yet.