Monthly Archives: January 2009

CommentPress and Diigo

I have two new courses online this semester: one that introduces HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL and CGI. Yes, really. It’s a lot to cover, but I’m trying to do a very basic intro of each, cutting out anything at all extraneous. This will leave students with a lot more to learn to be effective, but [...]
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Very Mashed

I generally use the video for the Gray Album when I talk about the cultural effects of mash-ups. I’d love to use this in class instead, but I suspect it would be… less than appropriate. Equal parts brilliant and deeply disturbing. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
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Cuttlefish rule

Cuttlefish are awesome.
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Knowledge everywhere: the distributed memory of social media

We know almost nothing about the college years of the 43rd president of the US. We know that George Bush attended Yale University, was a cheerleader, played rugby, and did not excel as a student. Compare that with what we will know about the 49th president. It is very likely she will have a Facebook [...]
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