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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
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: February 2003
Sey know to $1200!
Pataki wants to raise tuition at SUNY by $1200. First hike in 8 years or so–but making up for what should have been gradual increases the whole time. Students get mad and start a petition. I sign it, because it doesn’t take much time to do so. Because it doesn’t take much time to do [...]
Greater and lesser blog divides
Several people of late have noted the great linkage divide between livejournal and the rest of the blogosphere. I have a feeling this divide will diminish over time. I wanted to get rid of the blogroll to the left. There were two reasons for this. First, I was only reading those blogs that pinged weblogs.com, [...]
Python swarm
Just found out about PyObjC. Talked earlier this week with Corinne Coen, over in the School of Management, who has done some work with Swarm. I played with Swarm a bit while at Santa Fe, and would love to do more work with it, but I fear that writing objects for simulation in Objective C [...]
D-Space
Tom Jacobson pointed me toward a recent article in the Chronicle on MIT’s Dspace project. It aims at allowing researchers to make their research and data easily available, and aims at making this archival software open source and customizable. Eventually, MIT officials hope, professors will be able find scholastic research as easily as college students [...]
Know when to walk away…
…and know when to run. I reported recently on the failure of a fairly time-consuming research project, a project I had hoped to publish in a special issue of JCMC. I had hypothesized that if collaborative filtering systems led to a narrowing of topics or perspectives, we might be able to measure how and why. [...]
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