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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: January 2008
Wikia Search Alpha
I’ve had a chance to play around with Search Wikia over the weekend. The New York Times provides a broad overview today. One of the arguments of my book is that a lack of transparency is one–though only one–of the socially dysfunctional forces of the current crop of search engines. Google sometimes reminds me of [...]
Is rent theft?
A Christmas wish appears in the classifieds of last month’s New York magazine: WE NEED HELP BUYING AN APT on the UWS, 3bd 2bath. YOU are a phil- anthropic, wealthy person who would not miss a million bucks and would be interested in donating (or even investing) in a highly targeted manner: to my fami- [...]
Real meaning of “friend”
If another person says that Social Networking Sites are changing the meaning of the word “friend” for the worse, and makes it sound like he is saying something profound, I’m going to scream. As if we have a stable, broadly-accepted idea of what “friend” means. It’s more often something like Stewart’s “Casablanca” test for pornography: [...]
Did blogging kill the public intellectual?