-
Tweets
- These are not the drones that are looking for you. (And no, I don't buy this argument.) http://t.co/SKEifVak 4 hrs ago
- What's the Frequency, Google? https://t.co/2fHu6K4Q 4 hrs ago
- Want! MT @mariekshan: ...Terminator-style glasses stream real-time info to your eyeballs http://t.co/OQcjmvZi 6 hrs ago
- @barrywellman Yes. But the flaneur also makes the everyday strange, and to enjoy that strangeness... i.e., does sociology. 1 week ago
- "The death of the cyberflaneur" http://t.co/A1kE5pKE (Anyone who has seen my email .sig will know why this title disturbs me. :) #fb 1 week ago
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 2 weeks ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 2 weeks ago
- More updates...
Archives
Author Archives: alex
IRBs and Clean Secrets
There’s a comment piece I wrote that appears in today’s issue of the journal Nature that talks a bit about the role of open data and IRBs. But I worry that perhaps in the number of iterations it made before publication the main point got muddied a bit. So here it is: Funding agencies and [...]
Retreating on the Grades
Heading into a new semester and assembling the syllabi (well, one–the other, once again this term, is in the hands of the students), I’ve decided to give up on my short-lived “no grades” policy. At least nominally. What happened? Well, at least pedagogically, I was fine with it. To recap, I was concerned that students [...]
Google plus what?
Over the last few days, I’ve been exploring Google Plus a bit, in my spare time, along with a quarter million of my closest friends around the globe. There are already a lot of reviews… that’s not what this is. I find it to be an interesting entry point, and I’m curious to see what [...]
Dirigible Avatars
Not quite Blade Runner, but I like the idea of presenting myself in physical spaces as a giant airbag…
Posted in Technology Tagged Aerospace, Airbag, Blade Runner, Dirigible, Robots, Themes in Blade Runner, Video Leave a comment
Toys & Tools
It’s no secret: one of the reasons I wanted to have kids is for the toys. It’s so much more socially acceptable (and fun) to buy Legos and light sabers for your kids. But the irony is that kids don’t want toys, they want the real thing. Sure, they’ll settle for the cardboard box fashioned [...]
And I Blog…
Certainly not the first time a Twitter thread has led to a bumper sticker: michaelzimmer: Right now: I supposed to be working on a journal article (tenure), but instead I’m writing a blog post (impact). halavais: ∴ impact ≠ tenure RT @michaelzimmer: I supposed to be working on a journal article (tenure), but instead I’m writing [...]
Posted in Teaching, Technology Tagged adjunct, blogging, impact, metrics, Scholarly Communication, Teaching, tenure 5 Comments
Open Analytics and Social Fascination Talk