Tweets- halavais: Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg
- halavais: RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint.
- halavais: I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/
- halavais: RT @tombarrett: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula h ...
- halavais: @laughingsquid I've always enjoyed Mattelart & Mattelart, as a brief supplemental overview.
- halavais: New post on the future of ebooks: http://alex.halavais.net/ipad-goes-back-to-the-future
- halavais: RT @mattthomas: Every time I’m confronted by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s paywall I am reminded of why I switched to reading Insi ...
- halavais: I'm quoted in a story in CT Post on PleaseRobMe: http://is.gd/9TIlL . Poor Finn is only 215, not 250. Now I'm going to the park :).
- halavais: Watching the livestream from TEDxNYED: http://www.livestream.com/tedxnyed
- halavais: "That's a low price to sell your soul," (on the LA Times selling out its front page for advertising). http://is.gd/9Nr1f
Monthly Archives: October 2002
“Feeling much better, really…”
While many scientists consider this a bit wacky, if it turns out they are right, it will make this seem a bit less wacky. Did you know this was the real origin of “saved by the bell”? Makes the eponymous TV show a bit morbid, no?
Enjoy your Samhain. Bring out your dead.
Pierre Levy goes to Canada
Pierre Levy has taken a chair at the University of Ottowa, where he will press on with his study of “collective intelligence.” He “says”:http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3244==–==296107-,00.html :
Mon ambition est de creer un nouveau champ scientifique dans l’etude de la cooperation intellectuelle. L’intelligence collective est une approche de la societe qui considere les groupes humains (une entreprise, une [...]
Elitism and Democracy
Bush doesn’t like “elites, these kind of professor types that love to read their names in the newspaper.”
I’ve been thinking a bit about elitism, and I have to admit it’s slowing growing on me. Mind you, this is coming from a long-held position that students should have the power in a university, and that people [...]
Supporting GPL Development
So, while the “New Democrats” are arguing that we should not support the development of GPL software with public money, the French are moving in to fill the void, and have supported the development of a new Mandrake cluster. Good for them, and for their French investors. Wonder if we have resolved to play defense [...]
NYT Anti-War Ad
Those responsible for the web petition for faculty opposed to rushing into war with Iraq have published a full-page ad (pdf) in today’s New York Times.
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