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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: April 2005
Bush reads newspapers!
I was waiting for my bagel this morning and noticed a story on the cover of the Buffalo News: Bush orders border plan review. Bush had criticized an earlier announcement that passports would be required for Canadian border crossings in a couple years; which is a big deal in a city where you cross the [...]
Fake science
One of the standard features of rumors is that they tend to amplify certain parts of a story and ignore others, so that as the story gets passed from person to person, it ends up being shaped, and often shaped into a meme. Thus when three grad students submitted a computer generated paper to a [...]
Re-Activism CFP
Hey, just as I am musing about borders and activism, I notice a very cool call for papers for a conference next October in Budapest: re-activism. I would really love to go, but just how many conferences can you attend in October/November without cloning yourself.
Killing edublogging
James Farmer suggests two ways in which educational blogging as a widespread activity may be effectively killed: 1. University-created blogging systems and 2. Courseware-integrated systems. I’m less concerned about the first. We started a school-level blogging server about two years ago now (what has evolved into Schoolof.info), using first Moveable Type and then WordPress. I [...]
Virtual skirmishing
“Cyber attacks” — either breaking into public websites or otherwise shutting them down — seems to have staying power. This has shown up a number of times before, particularly (interestingly) when it comes to border disputes: in Palestine and Kashmir, for example. It turns out that there was a broad attack recently by some Chinese [...]
Google Video
More beta fun from Google (yes, I am becoming a Google fanboy): Google Video (Beta). If you produce a video, upload it, and they will index it and allow you to sell it. Cool. I have a project coming up. I had planned to leave it openly available, but now I wonder if maybe I [...]
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