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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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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Think-a-writer
The Grail for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)–or at least an interim grail–is being able to think words into a computer. Through what seems to be a fairly painstaking process, this can now be accomplished. It’s an exciting proposition, I think, because it suggests the idea of typing at the speed of thought. Of course, it turns [...]
School of Informatics post-mortem
Update (6/16): The official word has come down. Communication will be going to Arts and Sciences, Library Studies will be housed in the Graduate School of Education. The informatics programs will continue, it seems, though where they will call home is still in the process of being discussed. I’ve been at a couple of workshops [...]
Lessig’s Wake
The New Yorker has a wonderful story on the James Joyce estate, and it’s overprotective keeper, Stephen Joyce (the author’s grandson). My erstwhile academic home, SUNY Buffalo, features prominently due to its Joyce library. The article suggests that the estate, with the aid of the most recent extension of copyright, has a stranglehold on the [...]
My Dissertation: $1
So, a couple of days ago I got a royalty check from ProQuest for my dissertation. Not many people had purchased it through ProQuest: one person got a hard copy and a number had gotten it in another form. There several couple of reasons this surprises me: 1. The softbound print version is a whopping [...]
Hyperlinked Society: [adult swim] v. YouTube
At the Hyperlinked Society conference, it was suggested that hype over new technology often outstripped real audience numbers. The challenge came from Jack Wakshlag, from Turner, to Jeff Jarvis, of BuzzMachine and other climes. The example given was that it was stupid to talk about the “immense popularity” of YouTube when the audience numbers were [...]
Hyperlinked Society: Navigating Nodes of Influence
This session looked a bit at how people interact with various hyperlinks: especially ethical and social issues. Ezter Hargittai shows some great video of people searching for information and getting caught up in sponsored links that they did not realize were sponsored links. What sort of users don’t understand the nature of sponsored links? Lee [...]
3 Macbook Pro annoyances