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Tweets- 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
- halavais: Tonight's *way* overdue grades will be brought to you by @WoodchuckCider .
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Why I am not a Liberal – part 1
When we lived in Buffalo, I made, maybe, a dozen car trips into Canada. No, not for the ballet; either to eat, or to visit Toronto (“and that’s what’s great about Buffalo”1). In our “post 9/11 world” I always found Canadian border guards to be perfunctory but relatively polite, and American border guards, with rare [...]
What Iceberg?
I’m really disappointed, but I’m giving up on any possibility of getting a paper in for the very interesting looking YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle workshop. I had a small seminar last semester, and we collected and coded a sample of YouTube videos that appeared in mainstream broadcast news, and then looked through the [...]
Search Engine Society – Lecture 1
After some of the discussion of talking heads below, here is the lecture from one of my seminars this semester.
My new school?
Did your jaw drop at the end of that? Mine did.
Is this a bit like a McDonald’s commercial that temporarily blinds you to the fact that they serve grease on cardboard? Doesn’t make me think any worse of the commercial, though.
This caught me at an interesting point, since it seems to wrap up a [...]

A Panglossian View of the Depression