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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: May 2005
Self-introductions
I know you all know one another, and I think I’ve got everyone’s name down by now, but it doesn’t hurt to have a one-paragraph “this is me!” statement ready and on hand. Time permitting, we’ll talk a bit about finding your professional place on the net — what Phil Agre calls “Networking on the [...]
Capstone schedule
What a gas! The second meeting of our course was prematurely ended by a gas leak. Hopefully we can stay on track electronically. The finalized presentation schedule that we pounded out before being driven from the building appears below, with discussants in parentheses. Kristen, Dawn, and Renee, please let us know what we should be [...]
Going to ICA
It starts today, but I’m headed to the International Communication Association conference in New York first thing in the morning. If the bloggers who are going want to get together for a bloggers’ lunch on Saturday, post here or drop me a note. I have a feeling that sushiden is not exactly “cheap eats,” so [...]
The servants’ table
I remain wary of those eager to label blogging a revolution and skeptical when people claim that the mainstream media “doesn’t get it.” But then there is something like this: I think we would be poorly served as a nation were the primary news-gatherers to fall on such hard times that we had to count [...]
Capstone Seminar
I hadn’t planned to teach the Capstone Seminar for the Masters in Informatics degree this year, but it kind of fell to me. Now I am excited to get started: our first meeting is tomorrow evening. As in earlier classes, I will be blogging for the class from my “home” blog here. I will also [...]
The graduate
My lovely and talented wife, Jamie, graduated on Saturday from the Buffalo Law School (probably with honors, but those aren’t official until the final grades come in). She’s had a busy few years, acting as the executive editor of the Buffalo Law Review and the president of the Criminal Law Society (which hosts the only [...]

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