I spent today at home with a sick baby who slept a lot, so I ended up with a lot more time to catch up on blog reading than I had expected. Something’s been tumbling around in my brain (actually there’s a lot […]
Archive for January, 2006
This is interesting. (via Gizmodo)
I think it’s interesting that Microsoft seems to think that to add their own kind of value to an iPod-like device, they’ll need to consider including games innthe mix. That sounds to me more like a Game Boy or […]
Thanks to Steve Greenlaw for pointing me to Clay Shirky’s article Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags. This is a fantastic piece that serves to explain the difference between ontological and folksonomic classification approaches. You should read the whole thing, but the gist is that for centuries we’ve been forced to categorize information […]
Over break, we ordered a number of new G5 iMacs for a lab used here at UMW by the theatre department. One feature we were excited about (and planning on using for our project with Gregg Stull’s class) was the built-in iSight camera. We were imagining that the cameras would allow students to do […]
A funny thing happened yesterday. I was digging around in my desk through some files that I had brought from home (looking for something which I now can’t remember) and came across a series of folders from a class I took in graduate school on Orality, Literacy, and Technology with Clifford Hill.
I had […]
By far, one of the coolest gifts I received this Christmas was a copy of The Movies (from Activision). For those who haven’t heard of this game, basically it allows you to write, film, and edit movies. With characters and building tools reminiscent of those in The Sims, your job is to build […]
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