My silence is not indicative of a lack of interest in the weblog world… nah, there’s much going on worthy of attention, and some of my favorite bloggers have been on fire lately.
But ever since I got back from the trip to Virginia I’ve been in full-on scramble mode… and the rest of this week [...]
From the monthly archives:
May 2005
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How cool… Vancouver-based supergenius Alexandra Samuel (I gotta meet this person!) has published a piece intended to render the “tagging phenomenon both accessible and meaningful to a general audience” in one of Canada’s biggest newspapers (free registration may be required).
Patrice Neff is a software developer based in Switzerland who uses del.icio.us to share links [...]
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As a cumulative assessment project for one of my Office’s co-op work-placement students, I asked Frank Pan to develop a weblog/resource to support personal audio production and podcasting. As usual, I was pretty vague in my instructions to him (in my experience, cutting the younger set loose prompts wonderful surprises). I told him [...]
I’ve been back for four days now, and I’m still enjoying the rush I got attending the Faculty Academy at the University of Mary Washington. I need to post something to at least briefly capture some of the observations and provocations from the event — but now is not that time. I was [...]
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[Reporting semi-live from the UMW Faculty Academy...]
I am a terrible conference blogger. But textual silence is not indicative of a lack of interest on my part… quite the opposite. I’ve been having a blast through most of the sessions, some of which have triggered frontal lobe blowouts (a good thing). I’ll [...]
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My great deficiency as a weblogger is that I never write the posts I really want to write. If I feel genuinely engaged with a topic, I defer the actual writing of it endlessly — mulling it over, adding elements, seeing linkages elsewhere. All too often, I put off compositions until I am [...]
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I’m working with a unit on campus who have some stimulating challenges ahead of them. UBC’s Careers Online is [one of] the university’s most visited website[s] (about 1,000 distinct visits per day from students). Most of the visitors who log on to the site are after one thing — job postings — and [...]
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I’m becoming increasingly fascinated by the friction points between weblogs and traditional journalism. This commentary by the NPR Ombudsman points to a recent episode:
NPR’s Vicky O’Hara reported on a Defense Department document, which exonerated U.S. military personnel [in the shooting death in Iraq of Nicola Calipari, an Italian intelligence agent]. The document was highly [...]
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A rare and welcome victory on the professional front. A project proposal submitted with partners at BCIT and UVic Distance Ed was awarded with significant funding from BCCampus’ Online Program Development Fund. (We should also have a private sector partner that I’m very excited about, but I’ll hold off announcing that until the [...]
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