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03 Nov 09
The Ed Techie: Remote conference participation - results
This is a subject that deserves some thought. For the most part, online conferences (and online strands of face-to-face) seem to be perceived as (and often subtly created as) alternative to the "real thing" that are inferior but better-than-nothing. Reminds me of the way distance education and online learning (mostly) used to be seen the same way in comparison to their face-to-face counterparts...
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Terrible Poetry Jokes.
You have to be a poetry geek, perhaps, but a few of these made me laugh out loud. The exchange between Whitman and Pound is priceless.
Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos
Some great videos here... thanks @jstein
30 Oct 09
The Agony Column Audio Interview Archive
Audio interviews with scores of writers of all kinds, including many speculative fictioneers and discussions of writing, writers and the writing process.
The Prose Poem: An International Journal
All of "The Prose Poem" vol. 8 is available online in the Providence Digital Commons... wish the rest were!
29 Oct 09
Beauty, Art, and Darwin — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
Interesting piece discussing _Beauty_ and _The Art Instinct_, both of which take on the fascinating subject of evolutionary aesthetics...
14 Oct 09
Twitter Literacy (City Brights: Howard Rheingold)
"Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it."
13 Oct 09
Regretsy - Handmade? It looks like you made it with your feet
Great collection of some of the more unfortunate handicrafts for sale on Etsy...
10/GUI : The Video
Rethinking the human-computer interface and GUI
12 Oct 09
Gay issues, the "Fringe Left" and the liberal veal pen - Glenn Greenwald
"In that regard, the furor over Obama's complete inaction on gay issues vividly illustrates the same elements that shape political controversies in virtually every other area -- from war to civil liberties to health care and beyond: "
Doug Belshaw - Ed.D. Thesis
What does it mean to be 'digitally literate'?
11 Oct 09
One Million Monkeys Typing: A Collaborative Writing Project
An odd, but intriguing experiment combining DIY and "Choose a Path" ideas with social writing.
'Self-learners' creating university of online - Times Online
"By chance he discovered a website called Open Learn, an offshoot of the Open University (OU), which is in the vanguard of a new era of education. Short-circuiting tuition fees and over-priced student flats, Open Learn offers expert material, accessible via the internet, free to anyone, anywhere. "
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