Tag Archives: Systems Seminar

Generalized Video

By alex | Published: 9/23/2005
As I got on my short Jet Blue flight home Wednesday night, nearly every monitor was re-(re-re-) playing the landing of the stuck-gear jet at LAX. I had been in class, and not following the event. I mentioned to the flight-crew that having a “crash landing” Jet Blue jet on the displays was probably not […]
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Next couple weeks

By alex | Published: 9/19/2005
I‘ll have a few more weeks up later in the week. This coming week provides an example of why I wanted some flexibility. While we will talk about Baeyer’s definition of information and its place in science and society this week, we are going to put off the idea of information more common to information […]
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The perfect blog entry

By alex | Published: 9/13/2005
A number of folks participating in the two grad seminars this semester have asked what their blog postings should look like. As always, I prefer to be surprised, but perhaps a better way of asking that is how to improve your posts. This has less to do, I should note, with how to make a […]
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Columbia Course on Social Software

By alex | Published: 9/10/2005
Interesting syllabus for a course at Columbia’s Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education (found via weblogg-ed). They are also aggregating content, through the del.icio.us tag “ccte”. It’s not clear to me if they are also using del.icio.us to tag their own blog entries, though that would be a pretty effective way to go about things. […]
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