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Tweets
- In case, like me, you've been living under a rock recently: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ (Thanks, Jeff!) 1 day ago
- Tomorrow is up at midnight and then bed at midnight. Blah. 4 days ago
- Napping in prep for a late night (Don Giovanni at Haus fur Mozart, then dinner), and early flight out. 4 days ago
- News item on my #Alpbach talk on ORF: http://bit.ly/bXZhDB 4 days ago
- Auditorium over full for presentation on James Bond and Physics. #alpbach #efa10 6 days ago
- Rain descends on the #efa10 in #alpbach http://twitpic.com/2ixsjn 6 days ago
- RT @floritter 'Our brain only learns things that are done with enthusiasm': Hüther #efa10 #alpbach 6 days ago
- Oops: The Der... Like The al Qaueda...RT @halavais: New term for me: the Der ... 1 week ago
- Interview for the ORF's science site (im Deutsch): http://science.orf.at/stories/1658905/ #efa10 #alpbach 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Professors strike back
I got a kick out of some of these responses of faculty to their RateMyProfessor comments. Some are pretty amusing. They share what seems like the prevailing view: don’t trust what you see on RMP because it is clearly biased, and if you have a complaint, come talk to your instructor, and you might actually [...]
I wouldn’t steal
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The New Media Professional
The other course I’m teaching this semester–also distance–is formally titled “Communication, Media, and Society.” Is it only because I am in the field that I think that title might as well be shortened to “Stuff.” It’s hard to think what it doesn’t cover. In past incarnations, I’ve left it to the students to brainstorm a [...]
MTV c. 1983
My partner and I have, at times, discussed the reconstruction of music from the 1980s. She knows a lot of music that just never made my radar, and vice-versa. And neither of our understandings of what constitutes “80s music” corresponds directly with what is now considered “oldies” collections. (I still get a kick out of [...]
Interactive Communication – The online version
You may have noticed I have abandoned the idea of going all audio here. I’ve also decided not to echo every post from my grad courses here, but instead to do more periodic posts. And the periodicity will be rather long, since this semester’s classes are set up on a two-week cycle, in order [...]
Going Solo
No, no, not me. Or at least not except during the summers and weekends. But there is a fun-looking one-day conference on May 16th called Going Solo, all about the process of becoming a successful freelancer in a world that seems to be moving us all in that direction. They have some well-known speakers lined [...]
WebMynd and distributed archiving