Archive for February, 2007

How far can two dollars go?

A group of students at UMW are planning a project to see if they can live on $2/day(as almost have the world’s population does). Our student-run portal has a story about it , and the comment thread that is developing is further refining the project planning.
There’s a mention in the story about KIVA, […]

Sort of about rigor — also about tough questions

Over at Signal vs. Noise, Jason wonders about something that perplexes me all the time. Why don’t we talk to each other more?
I’m amazed by how often when faced with a difficult-to-interpret situation, rather than asking someone “What did you mean?” or “What would you like?”, we try to guess. I know I do it […]

Oblique Conversations

One of my favorite features of del.icio.us is the ability to “send” emails to other users by using “for:” tags. I regularly stumble across resources that I want to share with my colleagues, and my practice is increasingly to del.icio.us the site and then add a tag for that individual.
I love the way that […]

Annotating Web 2.0

Lots of people have been talking about Michael Wesch’s Web 2.0 video recently. Today, via Ken Smith, I’ve stumbled upon the version that Wesch posted at Mojiti.
I actually find this version even more stirring than the original, contextualized in a Web 2.0 tool that allows for user-generated annotation and commentary. . .




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