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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 2005
Take on me!
OK, I don’t have much to say about this except that I haven’t been so excited about an animated feature in a while. Or, more consicely: Dude. A Scanner Darkly preview
Blogging in Public
When I speak with people about blogging, I often make the distinction between blogging as a personal but transparent act (much of the blogging on Livejournal takes this form), and blogging as a kind of intentional micropublishing; that is, the creation of a public persona. I consider my blog to be of the latter type. [...]
Google Maps Walking Tour
Tim Bray posted a link to Udell’s Google Maps walking tour of Keene, NH, in case anyone (like me), hadn’t seen it. This is really very cool: it’s what happens when you allow others to co-design your service. I don’t know how many of the current MI students read my blog (I suspect very few), [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged buffalo, Mass Customization, Masters of Informatics, MITIA, Todo, WearComp 1 Comment
1 & 1 equals 0
As long as we are on hosting issues, I have a new company to add to the avoid category: 1and1.com. Some of you may remember this outfit: they were offering free hosting for a while (and still do, on a trial basis), a couple years ago. They also allowed you to register a domain for [...]
Social Software in the Academy Workshop
Chances are you already caught this here or, um, pretty much everywhere, but some of the folks involved in the SSAW last year are now staging SSAW II: The Revenge of the Academy (OK, that last bit isn’t official yet.) Go forth and socialize.
Bad Vibrations
You have no constitutional right to vibrators (Yahoo News): The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys. The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices and by two vendors who [...]
Teaching Porn