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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...
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Monthly Archives: August 2003
But wait. What if I’m a girl?*
Jill pointed to the Gender Genie, which employs a heuristic involving the use of particular words to infer whether you are male or female. I am female. (Er, I mean, my blog writing is). I even tried my most manly man posts, ones having to do with toys and aggression. No luck. Just couldn’t find [...]
Boost
I want one of these. The HAL-3, developed at Tsukuba U., is meant to allow the disabled to be able to climb stairs, and otherwise do things that even the iBot can’t do. We may always have been cyborgs, but we sure are looking a lot more like them lately.
Open access
Great overview of the open access movement: Michel Eisen, “The open access movement in scholarly communication,” which can be found as part of the proceedings of a conference on access in the 21st century library ( 1 Mb). (Via Open Access News.)
$pam $olution?
A while ago I wrote briefly about monetizing spam. Esther Dyson wrote a year ago about a system called Vanquish, which combines challenge/response with the ability to fine commercial operators. Only catch: $40 a year (or 18mb, whichever comes first). Let’s leave aside that I go through 18mb of email in a busy afternoon. (Not [...]
AOL journals live
So AOL is on track to beat UB to the blogging game. Of course, they have a bit more funding…
Things to do in Buffalo when you’re tenured
I am so stealing about 90% of Naomi Chana’s list of things to do post-tenure (excepting or modifying those which I’ve already done or which I am biologically ill-equipped to do myself.) Now back to my syllabi :).
Stars and Friends (pt. 2.5)