Why I Love Alan Levine
I had the good fortune almost a year ago of spending a few days with Alan Levine.
I had been in Shanghai only a few hours when there was a knock on my hotel room door and when I opened it, there was Alan, with his hand stuck out to shake hands and asking, “where are we going to go to eat?” There followed a few days of exploring successively smaller and smaller streets in old neighbourhoods and me learning new things about taking pictures and sharing what you know all day long long.
Since that time, I’ve closely followed a lot of what Alan does and have been constantly impressed with the depth of what he is willing to share.
Fore example, I was looking the other day for an audio file of Chris Anderson’s new book Free, and I found on Alan’s blog that he had used AudioBookBuilder to piece together all of the mp3 chapters that had been posted, turning them into one full audio book.
When many people became interested in using Cooliris as a presentation tool, Alan posted a full blog post, complete with all of the code that he wrote, guiding people to make their own.
There are countless other examples of Alan putting his geek skills to work for the rest of us. Most importantly, he never hesitates to share what he learns. Alan is the perfect example of being a great digital pollinator.
P.S.
These days, Alan is sharing another passion of his, running. Alan is soon to run a 1/2 marathon and is gathering pledges for the American Diabetes Association. Chip in if you can.
I love you too, man.
Who could forget Shanghai? The moonlight long walks past the pipefitting shops, brushing off fake Rolex sales, sipping warm beer… just kidding, Clarence. It was a real treat to hang out with you and the other ed tech bloggers I met for the first time, in off all places, China.
Thanks for all the nice words, and the running plug. Paying it forward is pretty easy, I get paid by others, and try to pay it on.
I’m hungry again, where are we going to find food?
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In terms of one person making an impact by freely sharing digital 2.0 wonders, Alan is right up there with David Warlick in my book. Just in case you haven’t seen this…. http://feed2js.org/index.php?s=build … adds an rss feed to any web page. Have used it in many places for years. Thanks Alan!