Monthly Archives: January 2006
Eliminate your weakness!
I got a spam email with the following subject today: “Eliminate your weakness and become king!” I didn’t bother reading the rest, but I am sure you know what it is. Selling the same old stuff: inexpensive plans for ascetic living in order to overcome all worldly cravings, followed by an intensive course in courtly [...]
Hi, NYTimers
Welcome to those who linked over from the article in the Times. All three of you*. Sorry the place is such a mess.
It’s a nice short article on travel blogging, and why there aren’t more travel blogs. It’s funny that we have gone from “there are all kinds of X blogs” to “why aren’t there [...]
Rate Your Students
Since I am crushed by my lack of hotness rating on Ratemyprofessors.com, I may have to make use of Rate Your Students. Anonymously, of course. Erm… I mean… it wasn’t me? It was all Dr. Cassatta? (via Dan Li)
Cyberporn & Society
I’ve had mixed reviews about blogging my classes here: some love it, some obviously find it distracting. I’d like to say that I’d stick completely to research, but my academic life is not so neatly compartmentalized, and I’m not sure the blog should be either. In order to keep things a bit more orderly, I’ll [...]
Kindness of blog servers
Week before classes start. Everybody wants everything, now. I’m still working on things that needed to be done in 2005. And so, my blog server dies. No, not this one, the one that I set up for the students. And early next week, 400 students in my class, and many others in other classes are [...]
Article on kids in MySpace
I was interviewed for a short article on MySpace for the Buffalo News (thanks to David for the reminder). The moral panic was kept to a minimum, I think.
In the article I suggest that parents should be searching the web for their kids’ social spaces, and that this is not the moral equivalent of [...]
Better bring a book