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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 2004
Flower power
This makes me think there are some very cool people living in this country. A nice way to show you care. And as a commenter on Metafilter noted, this would be a great way for a city to put itself in the news in a positive light. In that vein, I just heard the Buffalo [...]
Rolan the Datapimp
This is, in fact, a reply to a comment made by Rolan the Datapimp (of Orkut mapping fame) in the “below thread”:http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/000789.html. Go read that first, if you haven’t already. First, I want to thank both Alan and Rolan for great comments. It will give us a nice set of things to discuss in my [...]
Permanent job loss
Virginia Postrel has a piece in the NYT Magazine A Prettier Jobs Picture? in which she suggests that the death of work is much exaggerated. The Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers are flawed, she says, because the hide all the new jobs (explosive growth in finishing granite countertops and giving manicures) within “boring” categories of [...]
Post-grad networks
Tom Smith writes about the use of (commercial) IM in a class setting: At the OTHER media, when building HyperIsland School of New Media, and again in Kosova, we used Instant Messaging, as well as email of course, as one of the main communication tools. Using a “standard” tool like IM, means that as the [...]
My attorney is out of town
Jamie is at the -Atlantic Regional Round of the American Mock Trial Association National Competition- National Civil Rights Trial Competition at St. Johns College. I just heard that her team is advancing to the semi-finals. She’s worked hard in prepping for the competition, and I’ll keep my fingers crossed during the appropriate times tomorrow. Update: [...]
Trader Garcons
The NYTimes has an interesting story about how Comme des Garcons is opening 1-year-only stores, and following in the footsteps of “Trader Joe’s”:http://www.traderjoes.com/ and others who rely on customers marketing the stores and products to one another. They put a shop into an empty space — an old bookstore in Berlin, for example — and [...]
Baby license