Monthly Archives: February 2005

Teaching Porn

Teaching a class in pornography is strange: * I have to check the spam folder almost as often as the inbox, since student emails seem to get dropped there easily. Likewise, when I get an email reading “Here as promised the log-in to that amazing adult site,” I have to do due diligence to make [...]
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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
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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. [...]
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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), [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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