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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...
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Monthly Archives: July 2006
The New Yorker on Wikipedia
The New Yorker has a very nice article on Wikipedia, which sums up the site better than I\’ve seen it done, and (as noted by David Robinson) Wikipedia agrees with that assessment. It will be a nice item to add to introductory social computing readings–something the Atlantic Monthly (esp. Charles Mann) has been a good [...]
Squeezed?
When people meet all 200 pounds of The Finn on the streets, their first comment is almost always “I hope you have a big apartment!” We do, by Manhattan standards at least, but the truth is, Finn would be just as happy in a place half this size. As proof, here he is snoozing in [...]
Slim Timing
Normally, it’s not a good sign if you think people are reading your mind, but sometimes it can be convenient. I’ve been using a spreadsheet to track my time for a while now, but it’s not reliable because I forget to enter time once in a while, and a bad record is more frustrating than [...]
Virtual Reality @ Real Life
I’m a bit behind the curve on this one. I’ve done the standard 15 minute presentation, but it took me a lot longer to put together than I had expected. The topic: the learning blogosphere. I’ve glanced as some of the other offerings for VR@RL, and this is a bit on the lightweight side, but [...]
I’m on a Washington Radio (o, o, o ,o)
Some of you may have missed my short interview on the radio this morning about blogging basics. Why? Well: * It was on a DC area AM talk station. * It was early in the morning on a Saturday, when most of the party animals that read this blog are just going to sleep, some [...]
Phantom quotes
So, someone forwarded along the following from C.W. Nevius, a journo-blogger from the SF Chronicle Alexander Halavais, may only be an assistant professor of interactive communications at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, but he knows how to deliver the money quote. Asked about bloggers by the Washington Post, Halavais came up with a beaut. “The average [...]
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