Monthly Archives: April 2008

ETUG Spring Workshop on Creativity

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Granville Island, Vancouver, originally uploaded by Alan Stanton. A quick post to let those here in … Continue reading

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Headin’ down the road to Fat City

Image by Rob Kruyt Nearly a decade ago, when we were planning our return to Canada after a couple of years living in Mexico, we had no idea where in our home and native land we might be able to … Continue reading

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All the people can’t be wrong all the time – a defensive egoblogging reflex

One of the benefits of insignificance is that people rarely have reason to take shots at you. So when some fairly sharp criticisms were directed my way over my recent NMC Mashup Symposium mashup I really didn’t know how best to … Continue reading

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Viva El SeƱor Presidente!

I’ve blogged a couple times previously about the Murder, Madness and Mayhem Wikipedia project (MMM) this semester, as it is the most potent cocktail of new media learning and public education that I’ve ever tasted. As the semester wraps up, … Continue reading

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Without a doubt, the best figure skating blog I have ever seen…

Don’t even try to argue with me. Boot and Blade is definitely a figure skating blog. I can’t imagine a better place to go if I want to see the worst figure skating falls. You may have guessed that I’m … Continue reading

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Gardner Campbell, Computers as Poetry

I have lost count of the number of people who have asked for the media for Gardner Campbell’s wonderful session at UBC last month, “Computers as Poetry.” I just got the results back from the lab today, and while I … Continue reading

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Mashed out of my mind…

I am humbled by how much people seemed to enjoy my mashup unartistry delivered in Second Life yesterday (though that reaction was hardly unanimous). And while I’m a little embarrassed by the heaps of praise offered up by Alan Levine, … Continue reading

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