December 2011
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August 2011
2 posts
why it's good to have more than one blog in your...
Shared server ‘perseus’ offline for unscheduled hardware replacement
Posted (August 8th, 2011 at 12:36 am PST) by patrickm
We regret to report that the shared server ‘perseus’ had to be taken offline to perform a file-system integrity check, as it came back from a reboot with a read-only file-system too many times. Unfortunately, this process did not work and we are now replacing the hardware for...
December 2010
1 post
Minimal Mac: The ... Question: Air or iPad? →
Put me in the Three Computers for Everyone: desktop iMac, 11” Air, and iPad. Mini is right: the iPad and Air are different machines for different uses. But I love that iPad form factor.
minimalmac:
I’m going to play Carnac here for a bit and answer the question that I’m sure is on some of your minds…
If the MacBook Air were introduced at or near the same time, would I have bought the...
April 2010
2 posts
If you, as an author, see the iPad as a place to ‘publish’ your next book, you...
– Reader
for weblogs: Instructions on How to Get a Comment... →
I figured that this would be useful just in case you guys wanted to have a comment box on your personal Tumblr account and be able to add actual comments.
1. If you don’t already have a Disqus account, go to: http://disqus.com
2. Click “Get Started”.
3. Sign up on the site.
4. Make sure…
March 2010
5 posts
the most important part of learning physics comes by doing, and so students who...
– High-Tech Cheating on Homework Abounds, and Professors Are Partly to Blame - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Accident of the Additional Last Line
XII.
“Daphne with her thighs in...
– H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts) [Part I] by Ezra Pound : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry.
As for the dance for “A Million Ways,” we’d come out with our...
– Reader
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A PLE (personal learning environment) is: a system that helps learners take...
– Personal Learning Environments
February 2010
10 posts
To pull out of this tailspin, writers and their patrons both will have to make...
– The Death of Fiction? | Mother Jones
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After more than a century of founding and subsidizing literary magazines as a...
– The Death of Fiction? | Mother Jones
Weblogs and Wikis: Weblogs and Wikis
→
My page.
Students'-eye view of Webcam spy case | For the... →
At least one student at Harriton isn’t particularly worried about the administration spying on students. In a podcast interview, 16-year-old junior Jon Brodo said “I don’t think anyone knows the true story…the problem is in this case is that there are so many rumors going around.” He said that he is somewhat concerned, but “I do trust that the school district...
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Jason Kottke described tumblelogs on October 19, 2005:[1]
“ A tumblelog is a...
– Microblogging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Morgan's notes on tumblr
At http://tumblr.com
Focused: Short form. Multimedia. Tumblrs seem to be tightly focused on a topic and linked back to sources.
Dashboard. Like Twitter stream.
Persistant in ways that Twitter isn’t.
Make posting choices by media: text, quote, image, vid. But it slants toward image.
Uses follow - followers model, like Twitter.
Search functions for own stream, follower stream, Tumblr...
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feltron →
Lifelogger and data designer Nicholas Felton posts not just annual updates but more frequent tumbls.
December 2009
6 posts
You know you're in for it
when the weather service starts couching their estimates in feet rather than inches:
ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
EARLY SATURDAY OF ONE TO TWO FEET STILL LOOK LIKELY…WITH THE
LESSER AMOUNTS ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER AND THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS OVER
FAR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. ISOLATED
AREAS OF AROUND TWO FEET ARE CERTAINLY...
November 2009
1 post
August 2009
3 posts
Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker →
Confessions of a convert
July 2009
3 posts
June 2009
4 posts
May 2009
3 posts
Joe Cocker Reheard →
Animate Projects - Summer with Monika →
April 2009
10 posts
links for 2009-04-08 →
History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Home
A history writing project at Richmond.
(tags: newliteracy writing fyc)
links for 2009-04-05 →
if:book: will the real iPod for reading stand up now please?
“And the Web is full of belles lettres. Now and then in my wanderings around the Web, I come across something and think ‘That’s…