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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: October 2003
Indexing everything
It would be hard to have missed this news, but Amazon.com now provides search functionality within a big chunk of their stock. For example, if I want to find out if I am mentioned in a book, all I have to do is search for my name. Likewise, if you want to get at a [...]
But I don’t like spam!
Woke up and spent some time cleaning up comment-spam. Bah! I guess I’ll have to take a look at MT-Blacklist. Now I just have to decide whether to try to dive into SourceID.Java, a framework to allow for multi-domain authentication. My guess is that the last thing I need is another project.
Fallen
旅人と我が名呼ばれむ初時雨 松尾 芭蕉 (Known as a traveller upon the first winter’s rain. – Basho) My hands ache from the cold, the trees are mostly bare, and this morning it snowed. Winter has come to Buffalo, and it makes me want to be elsewhere.
Really virtual
I wonder if ontologically terrorizing customer service is a crime. This post was enough for me to want to subscribe to Julian Dibbell’s blog–unfortunately, it is without RSS. GooPy needs to get with the idea that making people pay for RSS is not a good way to grow the product.
Global city squares
This takes the idea of “always on” videoconferencing one step further, by providing a public portal from city to city. The planned installation would allow Londoners to meet with those in Vienna to chat.
Where’s Ludd?
So, unemployment remains at a rate not seen since the early 1990s, and at the same time, robot sales are exploding. It seems that jobs are the trailing part of a recovering economy. While workers laid off in previous recessions were often rehired when demand surged, this time around seems different: Some of it is [...]
Dean vs Revolutionaries