Monthly Archives: August 2004

Cool Tools for Back to School

The new issue of EDUCAUSE Review presents a set of features on some of the groovy tools and applications that are seeping into higher education: “blogs, wikis, swarms and games.” Stephen Downes does a great overview on educational weblogging, one … Continue reading

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Walking the talk — time to deal out some serious abject learning

As if I wasn’t busy enough trying to drive learning object and social software projects into the ground, this fall I’ll be an instructor for a course entitled Text technologies: the changing spaces of reading and writing. Quoting the description: … Continue reading

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Well, that was more complicated than it needed to be…

Well, the migration seems to have been completed, though some of the spam seems to be resisting the powers of MT-Blacklist. It could be a local server issue, a complication arising from the import/export process, or something else entirely. Thanks … Continue reading

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Oh man, this proposal to save the world sounds ALL too familiar…

An excerpt from Bruce Sterling’s speech at SIGGRAPH 2004: “When Blobjects Rule the Earth”… We are filling the atmosphere, and the seas, and the surface of the planet, and our own bodies, with our industrial emissions and our dead junk. … Continue reading

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“I don’t care what you think” or, “If it feels good, blog it”

I couldn’t help but wince when I read Alan’s recent post on comment-free weblogs… I understand fully the bloggers who have dealt a blow by spam. I have too dealt with the scourge of blog spam, but rather than quitting … Continue reading

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Oh man, this proposal to save the world sounds ALL too familiar…

An excerpt from Bruce Sterling’s speech at SIGGRAPH 2004: “When Blobjects Rule the Earth”… We are filling the atmosphere, and the seas, and the surface of the planet, and our own bodies, with our industrial emissions and our dead junk. … Continue reading

Posted in Objects | Comments Off on Oh man, this proposal to save the world sounds ALL too familiar…

“I don’t care what you think” or, “If it feels good, blog it”

I couldn’t help but wince when I read Alan’s recent post on comment-free weblogs… I understand fully the bloggers who have dealt a blow by spam. I have too dealt with the scourge of blog spam, but rather than quitting … Continue reading

Posted in Webloggia | Comments Off on “I don’t care what you think” or, “If it feels good, blog it”