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Tweets
- Someone has been kind enough to point out that this is *exactly* the luck of the Irish, BTW. (I am irony-blind!) 1 day ago
- Microsoft keeps bugging me. http://alex.halavais.net/ms-for-your-protection 1 day ago
- I do not have the luck of the Irish. Got 2 flat tires on my way back from school Weds night. Replacements won't arrive for a week. 1 day ago
- Much better title than "Steal This Book": http://is.gd/aIpF3 5 days ago
- Each year, more of the clocks in my house spring ahead on their own. 6 days ago
- At ikea. Just bought a room's worth of furniture. Power has failed & so no systems for delivery. Sooo, sleeping here tonight? 1 week ago
- Yeah, yeah. Lady Gaga video. But I like the new Kate Nash: http://is.gd/anfMX 1 week ago
- Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year. 1 week ago
- These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: January 2003
Everybody talk about pop musik
“… in Hamburg, Milan, Madrid, London, Paris, as well as, Buffalo, New York. “
Hmmm. Which city doesn’t quite fit?
Grok the Milieu
Went to Rochester to meet up with Liz Lawley, Jon Schull, Mike Axelrod, and Steve Jacobs and talk about the proposal for a grant to study microcontent/blogs. We threw around some ideas. It was a worthwhile brainstorming session, and now we are under some pressure to do what you shouldn’t, by definition, do when brainstorming: [...]
Open spectrum FAQ
Is the FAQ the manifesto of the 00s? The open spectrum FAQ does a good job of explaining why there should be changes in spectrum governance.
Why moblogging sucks
“Moblogging sucks” returns no hits on Google yet, much to my dismay. This entry is long in coming, but the result of a number of things I’ve read recently, an entry by Jia most immediately.
Jia writes of Cecily from The Importance of Being Earnest as the prototypical, self-involved, obsessed blogger. I think, in many respects, [...]
How Gaudi
NPR had a story on this morning about a tower designed by Antonio Gaudi for the lower east side, but never constructed. It is strange (well, duh!), but far more interesting than what seem to be the front-runners among proposed structures for the WTC site. (I hate saying this, but is that really the leading [...]
Anti-intellectualism
There’s an interesting discussion over on Plastic about anti-intellectualism on college campuses. In some ways, it is nice to see that I am not alone in noticing that the increase in numbers of people seeking a university education has significantly changed the environment of the university. I wonder how this plays out in differences between [...]
Helping hands