Monthly Archives: March 2009

Dirty bits

Posted on March 29, 2009 by William Chinda

I was up last night at some ungodly hour and managed to catch Nabil Elderkin’s video for the Kanye West song “Welcome to Heartbreak”: Maybe it was the sleep deprivation, but I was absolutely stunned. The effect used is called … Continue reading →

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Anachronisma

Posted on March 21, 2009 by William Chinda

A bit of expansion of my comments on a recent post at St8ED. I’ve been doing a bit of pondering on the value of traditional media, particularly with the recent shutdown of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the release of Amazon’s … Continue reading →

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Drunk with power

Posted on March 14, 2009 by William Chinda

The USF billboard that I critiqued in a post last month has been changed. Coincidence? Or evidence of the incredible influence that I have?

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Classical conditioning

Posted on March 8, 2009 by William Chinda

When I heard a story on NPR last week about the use of “clickers” to engage students in college classrooms, my opinion of the technology swung wildly: when they teased the story, I thought it was idiotic. “Clickers?” Isn’t that … Continue reading →

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