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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: May 2004
At speed
Local newspaper sent out a photographer to take my picture for an article on hypertasking. After being rudely tossed out of Starbucks, we ended up in the student center. I had planned on wearing a regular dress shirt, but since Sam reminded me that my wardrobe had a heavy Hawaiian influence, I went that way [...]
Blogads survey
Henry Copeland of Blogads has posted the results of his survey. Unfortunately, given that it isn’t a sample, the results have to be taken with a huge chunk of salt. If there is any question of this, some of the demographic items indicate a US-centric skew, among others. Other items strike me as intuitively pretty [...]
Military Sousveillance
Joi Ito picked up on a posting over at Smartmobs suggesting that the military (and specifically Rumsfeld) has is banning digital cameras and camera phones from the military. Now, leaving aside that there is thin evidence that this is a real news story (the original link has evaporated and I find nothing similar via Lexis-Nexis), [...]
Villa Incognito
It’s difficult not to like a book that begins “It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute.” Tom Robbins has a habit of saying plainly ridiculous things, and then spending a lot of time explaining to you why they are plausible, whether this is a person with [...]
The Rousseau in me
A father and daughter were recently “discovered” living in a large urban park in Portland. I find the reaction, both by the police and the media, to be astounding. The discussion on MF gets at my discomfort in the story. The father was getting by on a disability check of $400 a month. He and [...]
Berg Conspiracy Theories
I initially found no reason to watch the video of the apparent killing of Nick Berg. But when CNN notes that Zacarias Moussaoui used Berg’s hotmail account in the US, it is bound to trigger conspiracy theorists. Perhaps it is simply a coincidence, but it seems like a pretty strange one. Of course, it’s hard [...]
Why Bush will win