Tweets- 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 ...
- halavais: I'm quoted in a story in CT Post on PleaseRobMe: http://is.gd/9TIlL . Poor Finn is only 215, not 250. Now I'm going to the park :).
- halavais: Watching the livestream from TEDxNYED: http://www.livestream.com/tedxnyed
- halavais: "That's a low price to sell your soul," (on the LA Times selling out its front page for advertising). http://is.gd/9Nr1f
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Let’s do the time warp
Google has a search engine warped back to 2001. Even though they don’t have page caches of these sites, a little ego-searching sends me back pretty quickly.
Sedaris on undecideds
David Sedaris in the Shouts & Murmurs column of the New Yorker, entitled Undecided. On undecideds:
I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. [...]
Gaming the (Twitter) election
Last night, we did a hyper-short meeting of my large Intro Interactive grad seminar, so that we were able to go to a panel discussion on race, gender, and age in the coverage of the election. One of the objectives of the day was to get folks Twittering, and so, in about 4 minutes, I [...]
[ir9] First session (and my paper)
Yesterday, the Internet Research 9.0 conference got going at IT University in Copenhagen with a set of workshops. I participated as a mentat mentor, and I’m not sure how much the doctoral students got out of it, but I learned a great deal. It’s an interesting way of meeting academically, since we tend to deliver [...]
Quinnipiac “making a name for itself”