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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: February 2003
Can I blog this?
Just got off the phone with a colleague who is organizing an interesting event. What I should have said at the end of the conversation is “Can I blog this?” But I didn’t. I don’t think I’ve ever said that to anyone. Self-disclosure in blogs — not just of one’s personal life, but of things [...]
Terror informatics
As someone interested in data mining and forms of large-scale pattern recognition, I reacted to the plans for the Total Information Awareness project at first like everone else did (“Calling Orwell…”) but then realized that the sort of ideas I work with would be very helpful to such a project. Despite the title (Informatics helps [...]
Whatever you do
Had a faculty meeting with our Provost (likely next President) an hour ago. During her presentation, she said: If you have an idea, don’t put it on the web. This was in the context of IP. The university shares profits from patented devices (or algorithms) 40/60 with the researcher, but she wants to make sure [...]
Hello, welcome to hell
Please, no. Not only is MTV’s Sorority Life: Season2 filmed at the UB coming to an idiot box near you (along with “Fraternity Life”), about half of the “Rushees” are COM majors. It’s not always true that any publicity is good publicity. And one of them chose UB because of the beauty of our campus. [...]
Word Bursts
So, it seems that word bursting is now all the rage. They have a page of bursts over at Daypop and I think something similar at technorati. The idea isn’t all that groundbreaking: it’s what Google has been doing for some time with their Zeitgeist. Nonetheless, having it out there and done frees me a [...]
I’m not alone, er, sort of
An article over at the Atlantic Monthly called Caring for Your Introvert has been making the rounds lately. I wonder if it’s popularity among blog authors is indicative of something. I have mixed feelings about the article. I am, and always have been, very introverted. At the extreme end, this bordered on agoraphobia. I would [...]
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