Tweets- halavais: RT @brainpicker: Trailer for Last Call, the first interactive horror movie where audience can interact with protagonist http://ow.ly/1gzPm
- halavais: Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year.
- halavais: These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1
- halavais: Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg
- halavais: RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint.
- halavais: I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/
- halavais: RT @tombarrett: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula h ...
- halavais: @laughingsquid I've always enjoyed Mattelart & Mattelart, as a brief supplemental overview.
- halavais: New post on the future of ebooks: http://alex.halavais.net/ipad-goes-back-to-the-future
- halavais: RT @mattthomas: Every time I’m confronted by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s paywall I am reminded of why I switched to reading Insi ...
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Why Google Rules?
Hal Varian, who is generally someone worth listening to, has a post up on the Google Blog about why he thinks his company (yes, he works for Google) continues to dominate the market. After dismissing economies of scale, lock-in, and network effects, he goes on to say:
The answer, at least in my opinion, is a [...]
Wireless Balloons
I’ve been talking about this for years, and people seem to just think I’m crazy, but it looks like Google doesn’t. It looks like they will be investing in Space Data Corp’s floating SkyWiFi. Basically, these are hydrogen-filled WiFi repeaters floating around at high altitudes and providing internet and cell-phone coverage in rural areas. I [...]
On the Hudson
I think the best place to live in Manhattan would be aboard a houseboat in the 79th street boat basin. That dream is actually not as far out of reach as some. For the first time in decades, the city is allowing new residential slip rentals, which average less than $500 a month. Moor something [...]
Kiki & Bubu and “The Shift”
Never thought I would encourage sock puppets on my blog, but Kiki & Bubu (with a guest appearance from Trekkie Monster’s cousin) explains that the seeming shift of ownership to workers is just another version of false consciousness. I don’t happen to agree entirely, but it’s an interesting way of presenting the message.
Are “strange” courses best?
Via Tomorrow’s Professor I find this list of the top 25 strangest university courses. First, an observation: few of these strike me as all that strange. Perhaps it is because I am in a field–communication–that is often associated with courses about popular culture that might otherwise be considered trivial (courses in soap opera and games [...]
Securethatdomain.com: How sleazy can you get?
I registered a domain for a non-profit organization some time ago. They decided to let the site go, and so the domain was left open. It’s a very specific domain, of no interest to anyone other than the original organization.
Received the following email from Ken Palm at securethatdomain.com. Now, there is plenty of sleaze in [...]
The market speaks on Vista