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How Facebook is killing comedy (and other indie content creators)

8 years ago

Facebook has monetized access to online content. The mobile apps make it difficult for you to actually leave Facebook to…

Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read

8 years ago

It was pleasurable to encounter a familiar reference to Plato's Phaedrus (which I just assigned in my Media & Culture…

On the Importance of Nonverbal Feedback in the Classroom [an Anecdote]

8 years ago

I don't generally like teaching with slide decks, but students are used to them. I use a typeface that makes…

How Star Wars was saved in the edit

8 years ago

I learned a lot while watching this video. I didn't realize how much of this movie was driven by off-screen…

The Cover Letter That Led to Awesome Interviews

8 years ago

When I do a career planning unit, I am often amused by the students who list "design skills" or "very…

Research Poetry (communicating research results and expressing their significance through poetry)

8 years ago

For an article on communicating research findings in poetic verse rather than academic prose, an article in Qualitative Inquiry cites…

Fie upon your multi-page, ad-stuffed crapfest of shame. (Don’t click!)

8 years ago

What I wrote is not actually a list, just a narrative rant against clickbait listicles.

Updated a post about Sarah Rush — the “launch when ready” crew member from 1979 Battlestar Galactica

8 years ago

I recently noticed that a blog post I created in 2003 has been getting a spike in traffic. Today my…

Apology of Socrates, By Plato

8 years ago

Aristotle classified Plato's work, representing Socrates's defense against charges that he corrupted the youth of Athens, as a fiction. But…