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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: June 2005
Zombie Dogs
It seems that scientists in Pittsburg are resurecting dead dogs: US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and filled with an [...]
Class notes
Some remaining bits from discussion in class last night: In class, we had discussed whether executives will blog, or just have convincing ghost writers. Here is a job that seems to be the latter. They would need to get good people: maybe they should hire me :). On the mapping front, Google has released Google [...]
Student evals for porn class
Brenda, who helped with the cyberporn & society class, emailed asking what the student evaluations ended up looking like. It’s really a mixed lot. I’m not unhappy with the overall evaluations, especially for a class this size. I know a lot of profs don’t care much for student evaluations, returning to the old “in what [...]
PRing Kevin
Kevin blogs about some cool iPod shuffle skins he received from the company after blogging about them. I bring this up because it feeds directly into a discussion we had in the capstone seminar a couple weeks ago. We had talked about whether it was appropriate for bloggers to accept gifts. In this case, and [...]
Waiter Rant
The next time someone tells me blogs are all about teenage angst or political rants, I’m sending them to this entry, which is neither.
TCM Locative Reader
In preparation for talking about mobile technologies, mapping, and locative media on Monday, please take a look at the following: * TCM Locative Reader – Introduction * Mousehunter at Banff * and skim for interesting chunks on these two blogs: Mapping Hacks and the “locative” category from We Make Money Not Art.
Australian Wine Tasting