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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: July 2005
UW + Napster + DRM
Oren writes about UW’s agreement to pipe free music into the dorms. Free as in beer, that is. Looks like an interesting approach. Of course, whatever the DRM scheme, it’s possible to record the music, even if it means sticking a microphone in the computer speakers (which it won’t). But the thing is, this is [...]
1 and 1 Hosting Sucks
I’ve already complained about this once (1 & 1 equals 0), but it’s my blog so I get to again. If 1and1sucks.com wasn’t being squatted, I’d set up a site just so everyone would have a central location to complain about this company. I just got a letter in the mail from a collections agency, [...]
Cameron Marlow’s survey
I finally got around to taking Cameron Marlow’s Weblog Survey, and I’m glad I did. I had seen his request on his blog, but initially resisted because I wasn’t sure about the anonymity issues. Still not sure about the sample (since it will reflect the networks of people who know him and know people who [...]
Self-service
The Buffalo News recentle ran a story on self-service (ATMs, self-check-in kiosks, retail self-checkout, self-service prescriptions, etc.) that featured a photograph of the back of my head and a brief quote. A colleague here at UB (Neil Yerkey asked me how well the short quote reflected my real view. This is how I answered: My [...]
Mood Maps
Coates has a post up about tracking livejournal moods. I suspect a lot of people have been thinking about this lately. I’m always a little reluctant to post about work at its earliest stages, but before the summer is out, I hope to have a “mood map” running and be able to compare regional attitudes [...]
Torpedoing my job prospects?
I am officially “on the market,” looking for an academic appointment in New York City or the commutable surrounds starting in the fall of ’06. So, for starters, if you are a dean at Columbia and are desperately looking for someone like, well, me… here I am! I’ve been talking to a lot of people [...]
Job interview #1