Monthly Archives: October 2008

No new media triumphalism here…

Financial turmoil – whichever way you look at it!, originally uploaded by canonsnapper. No question, a bad week for some traditional media heavyweights: It’s been an especially rotten few days for people who type on deadline. On Tuesday, The Christian … Continue reading

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Coming out of the mobile closet… into what?

Dead iPhone, originally uploaded by mikeykrieger. So, a few weeks ago I acquired a certain much-discussed handheld telecommunications device made by a certain corporation based in Cupertino. It wasn’t a step I took lightly for a few reasons… for one, … Continue reading

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Making WordPress comments behave like a threaded forum

I mentioned a couple posts back that we are running some courseblogs this semester on WordPress, with a range of approaches and configurations. One of these courses has all of the students working within one multi-authored courseblog, posting assignments and … Continue reading

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Is there a remedial data literacy class I should be signing up for?

I hadn’t really looked in on the blogs today, but I did take a peek at Twitter, and I got the impression from some of my trusted network of experts that @psychemedia had gone and done something that had gotten … Continue reading

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Happy open access day!

As it has for generations, Open Access Day at my house will involve insane travel stresses, endless hours of cooking and dishwashing, dangerously excessive alcohol consumption, the therapeutic airing of familial tensions, grievances and debates on the Creative Commons NC … Continue reading

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My oh my, can this really be a WordPress post? (feeling Groom-y)

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } PorcuJim, originally uploaded by Serenae. So, we have very quietly been running some WordPress blogs for … Continue reading

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When the wheels come off: on information, experts, and the limits of the crowdsourced hype brigade

An excerpt from Neil Postman’s 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: …information derives its importance from the possibilities of action. Of course, in any communication environment, input (what one is informed about) always exceeds output (the possibilities of action based … Continue reading

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Radical reuse: or, what happens to online learning when things fall apart?

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Banksy, originally uploaded by Pete Ashton. This blog is rapidly approaching a state of hibernation. I … Continue reading

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