Monthly Archives: August 2004

At their word

Is it just me, or has the administration recently owned up to how offensive it is being? Seems like a great drinking game: every time an administration or GOP official says “on the offensive,” take a very small sip. I don’t know who is doing their strategy, but “turning a corner” (Daily Show translation: “I [...]
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Return of Joe Isuzu

Fine. Great. I get about a comment a day through the summer and then the first day of classes, when I have no chance of keeping up, I do something that brings a boatload or two of people to my blog. So, with apologies for the shotgun response… 1. You killed Wikipedia. You bastard! Well, not really. [...]
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The Isuzu Experiment

Update (9/5): Please don’t do this: vandalizing the site is not a good way to test it. If you want to test Wikipedia, please do it non-destructively. Joi Ito points to an ongoing discussion regarding the authority of wikipedia as a source of information and knowledge. The discussion was prompted by an article in the Syracuse [...]
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Blog Server, Part Deux

So it turns out that I launch a very beta version of our new informatics blog server on Software Freedom Day, which makes sense given that we are moving from the MT Server that has been up for about a year and a half to WordPress. There isn’t a pretty blog on the front of [...]
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Better than latte

Remember the movie Strange Days, which was built on the premise of the possibility of sharing another person’s recorded experiences by wearing “squids,” a set of sensors around the scalp? It always hit me that wearable computers could give you something of the same experience. In-car cameras, for example, have made motor racing a much [...]
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Where will you be on 9/11?

I will be in Bloomington, Indiana. But if you are here in Buffalo, you may be wondering how you can hook up with events tied into the September Project. Unfortunately, despite some lobbying on my part, neither the public libraries nor the UB libraries decided to participate. However, the Medaille College Library is linked [...]
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Theories of Communication

I needed an outline of communication theory issues, so I threw together some stuff and put it up as an article on wikipedia. You can read it over there (where you can also add appropriate changes and follow the links) or see it by clicking “more.”
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