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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: June 2004
Conferences and weblogs
Academic conferences play an important role in the life of the academic, and in the life of the academy. For a graduate student (and in some cases, an undergraduate), it is often the first experience of the wider world of academia beyond their own schools. Despite a general understanding among scholars that there exists this [...]
NotCon
Tom Coates is blogging from NotCon. Already I wish I could be there. Mentions a presentation on biomapping, combining biometric data (e.g., galvanic skin response) with GPS data to create a collective map of physical reactions. Damn, that’s cool.
Scholarati
So, a while back, I put up a a wiki page listing Scholars Who Blog, drawing from a bunch of similar lists on the web. Since then, a handful of new sites have been added or taken from the list, and there are about 550 blogs listed. At the time, Seb Paquet agreed that a [...]
Overqualified
The NY Times today notes that Google is unusual in that it actively recruits Ph.D.s: Until recently, when computer science students completed their long Ph.D. training and stepped into daylight, they were treated warily by industry employers. American business has had to overcome its longtime suspicion of intellect. “Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men,” an [...]
Come together
* I think it’s time to pick up Flash again. If you like the Beatles, or if you like animation (or both), check this out. (Via MeFi.)
My Life Thus Far
I have little time for my memoirs. However, since my “stalkers,” who knew more about my history than I ever seemed to, now
Scholblog network