Tag Archives: CyberPorn

she / partner / god

By alex | Published: 3/12/2006
Cyberporn & Society is about all the hot-button topics you aren’t supposed to bring up in polite company: sex, politics, and religion, especially. Not surprising, then, that there are postings that tend to step on people’s toes, or go further than this. One student, for example, suggested that those who performed in “gay for pay” […]
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Cyberporn & Society

By alex | Published: 1/15/2006
I’ve had mixed reviews about blogging my classes here: some love it, some obviously find it distracting. I’d like to say that I’d stick completely to research, but my academic life is not so neatly compartmentalized, and I’m not sure the blog should be either. In order to keep things a bit more orderly, I’ll […]
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Kindness of blog servers

By alex | Published: 1/13/2006
Week before classes start. Everybody wants everything, now. I’m still working on things that needed to be done in 2005. And so, my blog server dies. No, not this one, the one that I set up for the students. And early next week, 400 students in my class, and many others in other classes are […]
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Dogears and classroom ROI

By alex | Published: 11/24/2005
Interesting brief article in Queue on IBM’s Dogear social bookmarking tool for the enterprise. It appears to be a system like del.icio.us, but with the ability to assign groups and to set up levels of privacy. They skip over the most interesting and difficult part: How to get folks to use it! They casually mention […]
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