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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: May 2003
First ICA paper presentation
I’ll put this up in HTML format soon, but for now, the paper I am presenting in a few hours is viewable in pdf format. It is a methodological note on measuring “idea bursts” over networks and nodes. I’ll post more (including some notes on the conference) tomorrow if I get the chance.
ICA Report – Saturday
Record time for burnout on a conference! I think it is, at least in part, that I was pretty burnt by the time I got here. Everyone I talk to seems to agree that the quality of the presentations are fairly middle-of-the-road, or maybe that’s just the jaded eye of intellectuals. I don’t think that [...]
Blogging instead
So, I should be downstairs at the reception “mingling.” I used to think that I just didn’t like not knowing anyone, a fairly natural reason not to want to be at a social gathering, but now I know a fair number of people in this room, and still I hate being there. It’s a bit [...]
Fear appeal?
These domestic violence PSAs from HomeFront in Calgary are disturbingly violent, and have not been allowed to be shown on television. Can’t you watch the Sopranos on CTV? Is that really cartoon violence, when compared to this? I guess the big question is whether it is an effective commercial–whether it shifts the agenda. I think [...]
Blog this!
I’m off to San Diego for the ICA meeting soon. I’ll try to blog some of the presentations if I get the chance, though I may have trouble getting time/access to upload. I am really sorry I’m going to miss the BlogTalk conference–maybe next year? Matt posted a link to this T-shirt. I have to [...]
It’s not EE-ran?
“If you take away the government, you have the people. And that’s the way it should be.” - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian artist (Not talking about Iran… here’s why.)
Remaindered