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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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Archives
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Alexa Web Search Platform
Alexa is opening their engine to API access. This should provide a great opportunity to web researchers who otherwise have to deal with crawling. Of course Alexa & the Internet Archive are linked in some ways, and the IA have been nice about providing research access to their data, so it may be that the [...]
Blogs and the City
A bit of a late notice, but: Jia Lin will be defending her doctoral dissertation “Blogs and the City: Weblogs as Indicators of Urban Culture in America” tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13, at 2 pm in Baldy 553 on the north campus of the University at Buffalo. I am her committee chair, and other members include [...]
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Honda Ad
Great commercial overall, but love the ending. Who hasn’t dreamed of doing this at Niagara Falls? The Impossible Dream. Also check out this Microsoft gem.
Update on job search
This is the season for looking for an academic position (actually, a little late in the season) so I am spending a little time talking to local or commutable universities. I am being a bit picky about where I am applying, and will be a bit picky about who I accept a position with, if [...]
“Bloggers’ block”? Don’t blog.
Kevin links to yet another guide to Battling Bloggers Block. But I have the perfect one-step solution: don’t blog. Frankly, if you don’t have something worth saying, or don’t have the time to say it, why bother. Go do something else. Heck, watch TV. Your blog will still be there later. Now, of course, there [...]
Feeling pea green
I’ve been neglecting my blog lately, so I figured it was time for another post on colors. Went to the MoMA this weekend to see the excellent exhibition on “safe” design. Be sure to check out the online version, which has some cool things like a tree-mountable tent, a trans-dermal RFID tag, and other fun [...]
Peer reviewing the encyclopedias