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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: February 2004
Oreo stacking
A cartoon version of Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry’s fame) stacks up the federal budget for you to encourage you to support his new political push, True Majority. Taking economic advice from the ice cream guy might seem a little strange, until you recognize that he has managed to make real progress on a [...]
On Not Scraping Orkut
Liz on Many2Many posts a pointer to this geomapping of orkutsters. I spoke to my class Monday night about the ethical dimensions of getting at that data. The minute I first signed on to Orkut, I realized that it would be a great source of info to mine for looking at several social sciency questions, [...]
Walkthrough
Lilia over at Mathemagenic writes about how MT (Typepad, actually), is more difficult than we seem to think. There is some irony that the power of weblogs comes with the ease they bring to publishing, and yet their complexity remains a major stumbling point (IMHO) to adoption. I ran into the same difficulty she had [...]
Speed community
Tomorrow morning, I am going for a personal record: relaxed interaction, a short video, and 34 slides [pdf] in 50 minutes. Guest lecture for the Intro to the Internet class. That’s about 30 seconds a slide :/. We’ll see how that works.
Feeling worn out
People who do not have the enthusiasm which enables them to feel no regret over the thought of spending a whole lifetime investigating one missing letter from an old moth-eathen manuscript are unsuited to academic learning. - Max Weber
I am not (as) alone
Couple of recent papers are intriguing in that they fall squarely into areas of particular interest for me. The first is a paper that will be appearing in the proceedings for CHI 04 called Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space. Since my dissertation (“pdf”:http://alex.halavais.net/research/diss.pdf) dealt a little bit with the [...]
Shifting allegiances