Tag Archives: Open society

Hello, world

By alex | Published: 2/6/2008
Allen, who took the snapshot to the right, emailed and reminded me of this short piece I wrote for our alumni magazine (Quinnipiac Magazine) last fall. Here it is: Hello World! Technology opening classroom doors University campuses often reflect the character of their community, and that feels especially true here in the shadow of the […]
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Outsourced graffiti

By alex | Published: 1/18/2008
Don’t have time to tag your own walls? Outsource it! Send a Message is an interesting site that allows you to dictate a message to be spray-painted on the Palestinian wall. Full employment for Palestinian graffiti artists. Besides, remember back when the Berlin Wall came down and Bloomingdale’s was selling chunks? Maybe in a few […]
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Global villages 2.0

By alex | Published: 1/18/2008
The USA Today has an article today on the “blurring of social circles online.” It doesn’t quote danah, so I think it’s suspect from the outset (kidding!). Really, I want to note a couple of things. First, the author (Janet Kornblum) did something kind of interesting: set up a Facebook group to gather opinions. She […]
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Quinnipiac Chronicle and administrative “oversight”

By alex | Published: 12/8/2007
I haven’t blogged about the ongoing saga of the Quinnipiac Chronicle, our student paper, which is facing administrative censorship. An editorial printed in the paper lays out the problems: efforts to constrain the way the paper represents the university and its policies. The president doesn’t like how his position has been portrayed in the paper, […]
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