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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: July 2006
Pew Internet: Who are the bloggers?
Pew has released a new survey of bloggers. The idea is to get a feel for who blogs. I worry a bit about the whole idea of a “central tendency” among bloggers, since I suspect that there are several central tendencies. I am reminded a bit of the Perseus claim a few years back that [...]
Dark and stormy
The winner of the Bulwer-Lytton prize has been announced: Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you\’ve had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, [...]
Ze Frank knows hisself some ugly
Ze Frank has recently been getting more didactic in his Show, but in a good way. He does a short blurb on Friday about the democratization of ugly. He’s running a contest for the ugliest MySpace page, which, as some of the commenters note, may be a bit redundant. But it does give him an [...]
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Finding last names in Excel
I talked to someone today who had a list of names in Excel, and wanted to sort them by last name. Unfortunately, they were not split into first / last names. What is the (non-programmer) to do? It’s actually a good opportunity to talk about doing stuff in Excel, since it tends to be a [...]
Flash Mob: A singular act of female rebellion
Derek reveals an early (1844) example of the term flash mob. Makes the term \”smart mob\” perhaps more appealing.
Converging mainstream media converage
A book chapter is about to come out in a collection entitled Media Diversity and Localism. When I get proofs, I generally read them out loud, to catch any errors. This time, I recorded it, and if you have a spare half hour, it would make a good bedtime story. Here’s the gist: There is [...]
A populist review of Pirates of the Caribbean