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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
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Gripe: Stop breaking my car
Several weeks ago, I parked my car in LGA long term parking. Maybe that was my first mistake. Someone ran into the car, taking off the trim on the rear bumper. By the time I got in, fairly late at night, the keyless entry wouldn’t let me in. I assume it had set off the [...]
Word of the day
Google Mail tells me that the word of the day is “thaumaturgy”: “The performance of miracles or magic… Thaumaturgy comes from the Greek words for ‘wonder’ (thauma) and ‘work’ (ergon). A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a thaumaturgist or thaumaturge.” And a blog that chronicles such works would be “a thaumaturgical compendium.” The links to thaumaturgical [...]
The MS grad’s job
One of the questions the faculty in the Interactive Communication program at Quinnipiac discuss is the sort of jobs people do when finished with the program. I don’t think we have a set job in mind, but this posting out of the Obama administration comes close: New Media Director of an Agency The New Media [...]
25 random things
I have managed to evade this 25 things meme that has infected Facebook. But now I have been officially tagged by Ms. Perry, who can–I believe–see Sarah Palin’s house from her back yard. And so, I am cheating, and following Liz Lawley (who was following Julian Dibble), on a 25 things with an obvious twist: [...]
Hope you forget your MySpace
Need to excerpt a bit of this for my Media in Transition talk :). (via Aaron)
Hypocritical like that