Monthly Archives: November 2005

Flying academics

By alex | Published: 11/28/2005
Spent much of the day on IM with students. One (anonymous) grad student, in a discussion regarding the expectations of The Academy, commented: “But I am always very interested (from the beginning) why you enter academia. I think you are the person flying in the sky.” It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the disaffected [...]
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Blogging with benefits

By alex | Published: 11/28/2005
From a Buffalo craigslist job posting: “I am looking for someone to help me start a blog….if you know how to do it, please me.” Are those two different jobs? (Via Amal.)
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Wanna buy a sofa?

By alex | Published: 11/26/2005
Been looking for a way to make money from blogging. Figured selling used furniture is a good start, if not particularly sustainable. Want a cool velvet sofa? Bid for it on eBay, and if you win, come pick it up in NYC. If you mention the blog, I will throw in a beer, or beverage [...]
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Jamie (nearly) barred

By alex | Published: 11/25/2005
So, since people keep asking, my better half, Jamie Halavais, soon-to-be-esquire, did pass the New York State bar exam. And yes, she did do well enough on the multi-state that she can eventually be waived in to the D.C. bar. And no, I don’t yet know if she is also sitting for the California Bar. [...]
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Syriana and propaganda from below

By alex | Published: 11/24/2005
Syriana is the next in Participant Pictures’ series of… well, I’ve called it “propaganda” before and I’ll stick with that for now. They produce films with a “message” without being overly cloying. Their tag on the associated site, participate.net is “Movies have the power to inspire. You have the power to act. Participate!” “What is [...]
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Dogears and classroom ROI

By alex | Published: 11/24/2005
Interesting brief article in Queue on IBM’s Dogear social bookmarking tool for the enterprise. It appears to be a system like del.icio.us, but with the ability to assign groups and to set up levels of privacy. They skip over the most interesting and difficult part: How to get folks to use it! They casually mention [...]
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Price perfection

By alex | Published: 11/23/2005
One of my gred students, Kevin Lim was interviewed for a story in the Buffalo News about pirating Black Friday sale fliers for the internet. You may have seen the earlier story in the New York Times. I was interviewed for the story as well, and it was actually a longish interview. This is one [...]
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