Tag Archives: Teaching

Social Graph API

By alex | Published: 2/1/2008
If you are like me, you probably think that XFN and FOAF are really cool ideas that just don’t seem to end up being very useful. Part of the reason for this is that it has been a little difficult for people to understand what the use of the links are, since there aren’t a […]
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Professors strike back

By alex | Published: 1/27/2008
I got a kick out of some of these responses of faculty to their RateMyProfessor comments. Some are pretty amusing. They share what seems like the prevailing view: don’t trust what you see on RMP because it is clearly biased, and if you have a complaint, come talk to your instructor, and you might actually […]
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Interactive Communication – The online version

By alex | Published: 1/23/2008
You may have noticed I have abandoned the idea of going all audio here. I’ve also decided not to echo every post from my grad courses here, but instead to do more periodic posts. And the periodicity will be rather long, since this semester’s classes are set up on a two-week cycle, in order to […]
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The Wire as Teaching Tool

By alex | Published: 1/11/2008
I was a big fan of the Wire, on HBO, from its first season, but didn’t keep up with it, and decided to wait and watch it on DVD instead. It’s a complex soap opera of a plot–one of the creator’s former colleagues referred to him as the “Balzac of the newsroom” in a conversation […]
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