—Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Fantastic content. No time to comment on it — not until my to do list is clear. But this is definitely worth a link. I will say that this is a far more optimistic depiction of The Machine than E. M. Forster had in “The Machine Stops”…
To Do List (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) No recreational blogging for me until I’m done with everything on this list. Write letter of ref for recent grad (deadline was Feb 1; turned in letter Jan 31) Finish new article on a classic work of interactive fiction (deadline was Feb 1; I’ll have it done in a few…
To gather up a few logs, it might seem like lunacy to deploy the same kind of sophisticated and pricey ROVs used to explore the Titanic or investigate 9,000-foot-deep geothermal vents along the mid-Atlantic seafloor. But do the math and Godsall’s method starts to make good financial sense. Operated by just one person, a so-called…
—Boston Ad Prank Suspects Talk About … Hair (Fox | Youtube) I sense these two fellows might be worried their 15 minutes of fame might be receding faster than my hairline. It was a nice try by the reporter who asked a question about whether the suspects felt their hair would be safe if they went…
What makes Ledonne think that a video game is the best way to try and deconstruct the tortured minds that led to Columbine? Gaming is essentially escapist entertainment and while there are plenty of violent games out there to help you get off, if that’s what gets you off, no one has ever confused a…
A front page article about the sexual assault appeared on the front page of this week‘sstudent newspaper, The Argonaut. The paper was distributed Thursday and sometime before Friday morning nearly 500 copies of the paper showed up with the article snipped out. The papers were apparently stolen, vandalized and returned to the display boxes, said…
So I admit it. I got caught up in all the hype about blogs — about their potential for communication, for creating global connections, for expressing oneself, for extending face-to-face discussions, and for building community in online environments. In most cases, my initial excitement has not borne fruit. I don’t fault my students. I am…
Quite bluntly, if your web application can’t easily be adapted as a classic text adventure, your application has serious problems on multiple levels. Applications that can’t be easily adapted likely suffer from application structure and design problems and UI dependency, to organizational politics and bad decisions. —Michael Buffington —Your Web App as a Text Adventure (ETech…