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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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Monthly Archives: January 2003
Major putdown
“Media gets a lot wrong, not because they mean badly, but because they’re journalists, they majored in communications, they’re not people who wanted to spend two years studying statistical methodology so they could really learn how to do a social science survey.” - Megan McArdle, in Welcome to the Blogosphere on PBS tonight I posted [...]
Moveable Type Karma
So, I needed a discussion board for my law class. I wanted a karma system, but I like the way Moveable Type works. Since it is a static system, I couldn’t effectively do a “plug-in,” something else had to happen. So, I wrote a karma “plug-out,” a script in Python that interfaces through links back [...]
Let’s Roll
Somebody had a little fun with an editor to provide us with Bush’s vision of an evil empire. This really lightened up my day. (Via Boing.)
WNY Small Worlds
Everyone seems to assume that new technologies tend to decenter and diversify social ties. I think the best example of this is the degree of contact undergraduates have with their parents these days, even when they are “away” from home for school. But it also seems to tie together people in the “medium range”–what once [...]
RING
Put up the site today for the Research in Informatics and Networking Group. Hopefully, we can do with RING what we did with the NMRL in Washington. I have been thinking back to why that came about, and I realized that part of it was to keep me at UW. I was deciding at the [...]
Capstone project
The MI (Masters in Informatics) program requires a capstone project in place of a dissertation to graduate. I put together a short guide to distribute Monday to the students. A copy, with company names deleted, is available here: pdf.
In Memorium