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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: June 2003
Too grad school
From a report written as part of the University of Washington‘s Re-envisioning the Ph.D. project (they have a lot of interesting stuff on their site): I wanted to add this, a “too” list: Graduate school is too expensive, graduate school is too impersonal. It focuses people down a narrow path. It discourages social interaction. It [...]
United against the FCC
It seems impossible to break the lock. Conservatives insist that liberals have a stranglehold on the media, while liberals insist that it is the other way around. Given this disagreement, how could anyone favor increasing hegemony of ownership in the mass media. Admittedly, this remains an issue that is largely taken up by those leaning [...]
Bots abound
A couple of cool links from /.. First, for a robot that can track things you are holding and then snatch them. Definitely worth checking out those videos. Extremely cool. However, I think we all need to pitch in and buy these guys tickets to T3. I don’t particularly want a robot that pounces. And [...]
Kind World Syndrome?
George Gerbner, over several decades, has argued that violence in the media leads us to think of the world as a nasty place, to overestimate the dangers surrounding us, and to trust our fellow citizens less–a problem he has termed the “Mean World Syndrome.” Lauren writes that she had her car “broken into” last night, [...]
Just blog it.
Jeneane Sessum has this to say in response to the Jupiter business blogging conference: No. Seriously. It’s like this. What the best teachers of writing tell you–and I did have some of the best under Leslie Fiedler at UB–is this simple secret: Don’t take writing or English classes to learn how to write. Take philosophy, [...]
Informicant Crawler
Enough requests have come–mainly as a result of the ICA presentation–to use the Informicant crawler that I pretty much need to get working on making it more usable. Since Maria and I are starting on a new project that makes use of it, this will be a good excuse to re-examine the crawler itself, and [...]
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