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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 2007
[OSI] Hidden in plain view
I am down in Washington for a couple of days for a conference on open source intelligence organized by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. I suppose I should mention why I’m here, before moving on to some conference blogging. I’ve been interested in intelligence, and particularly open source intelligence, since I was [...]
Facebook kinda sucks
OK, not really; just an inflammatory headline. I think it’s great that they’ve opened up the site and are letting others build it. It seems like a model (cf. eBay, YouTube, Second Life) that is bankable. But what is a pain is that I can’t tell them what classes I’m teaching, because my home program–the [...]
Online survey tools
People frequently post to AIR-L asking what host they should use for their online survey. I decided it would be worthwhile to compile these answers and put them somewhere (on the AIR Wiki) for future reference. Survey Monkey Survey Monkey is the most frequently mentioned web-based survey system on AIR-L, and many researchers have posted [...]
Slow Blog Death
I have always claimed that I don’t look so much at my statistics for this blog, that I write for the sake of writing. That is mostly true. However, I probably should have been thinking a bit more about my readers over the last year or so. For one thing, I just found out that [...]
Yummy Frankenfruit
Have you tried “dinosaur eggs“? Saw them at Fairway and they looked a little odd, so I figured they were worth a try. Absolutely delicious. It’s not really a frankenfruit in that the genes have not been directly altered. It is instead a particular hybrid of plums and apricot (more of the former than the [...]
[OSI] Open Source on the Web