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Off the grid
I should probably do more with this blog than just link to stuff, but I’ve just redesigned my portfolio site, so I think I’ve hit my upper limit for producing web content in a week. This is a really great … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Alternative Reality Games, Evan Ratliff, online communities, online privacy, Wired
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The Future
I used to listen to podcasts of speakers at educational conferences on a fairly regular basis. This was, of course, until I came to the realization that I would fall asleep at regular intervals in the course of listening to … Continue reading
Posted in Instructional Design, Technology
Tagged Brian Lamb, future, instructional technology, insurance, Jim Groom, NMC, Tom Woodward
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Chindapedia
I recently saw American Splendor, a movie about the life of the underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar. It’s a fantastic movie, and currently sits near the top of my favorite movie list. I’ve never read any of his comics … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Technology
Tagged American Splendor, directories, egosurfing, Google, Harvey Pekar, movies
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Getting Paid
Of course not more than a week after I praise Hulu on this very blog, the overlords of Hulu at News Corp have forced me to eat my words. According to News Corp’s Chase Carey: It’s time to start getting … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Technology
Tagged digital media, Eric Garland, Greg Sandoval, Hulu, piracy
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The Customer is Always Wrong
Greg Sandoval of CNET has an interesting blog today about how Hollywood is on the verge of collapse. The reason: digital piracy. Sigh. We already went through this with the music industry, do we really need to go through this … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Technology
Tagged digital media, Greg Sandoval, Hollywood, Hulu, movies, Surfthechannel, television
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RE-spect
Despite all the pontification about how learning online is “THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION,” this SNL sketch (as well as the comments section on any article regarding online education) certainly points to a continuing belief that anything short of a face-to-face … Continue reading
Dirty bits
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
Posted in Media, Technology
Tagged data moshing, David O'Reilly, digital media, Kanye West, music videos, Nabil Elderkin
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Anachronisma
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
Posted in Media, Technology
Tagged Books, Kindle, Media, newspapers, Sven Birkerts, The Long Tail, vinyl
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Classical conditioning
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
Posted in Instructional Design, Technology
Tagged behavioralism, Cole Camplese, higher education, NPR, Twitter
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Podcasts will (save/replace) us all!
This is a bit of a follow up to the paper I wrote last semester that I posted a few weeks ago. I’m going to go off on a bit of a rant (like I didn’t vent enough in the … Continue reading
