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Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing Home Page on February 3, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..
Jargon and sadness in the archive
Hey, looking at old posts is a good way to discover one's annoying mannerisms and careless use of shoptalk and jargon, and you get to wince in private over the worst of the posts. Luckily, some of the posts hold up, and you find inspiring gems written by other folks. Speaking of jargon, I laughed again upon reading this spoof of the special jargon of the Star Trek world, where someone is always saving the ship by reversing the polarity of the warp drive: The other night,... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on February 3, 2006 at 4:47 p.m..
A theory of information control
The guest lecturer today was talking about England in the age of Swift, but the line of thought kept suggesting this week, this month, this year. In a capsule: people were fretting over a social order in which information was tightly controlled by players whose motives and actions were obscured from the view of the general public and who often enough shared information that amounted to little more than plausible fictions. Ring any bipartisan bells? For example, in the State of the... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on February 3, 2006 at 4:47 p.m..
Caring About the Content
The semester has changed at my school which means new blogs going up, old blogs coming down. Yesterday, a creative writing teacher bounded into my office bringing urgent messages from his former students. "You took the blog down," he said. "You can't do that." His students, it seems, had just expected to keep writing and sharing in the class blog even though the course had ended, and they were distressed when it disappeared. "You have to put it back up," he said. Similarly,
weblogged News on February 3, 2006 at 8:45 a.m..
P2P Surveys Becoming Almost Entirely Worthless
Too often, people use survey data to argue that the RIAA's lawsuits have had a significant impact on downloads. After the latest AP poll, I think it's time we treat these surveys as wholly unreliable. According to
WIRED, "Eighty percent of the respondents consider it stealing to download music for free without the copyright holder's permission, and 92 percent say they've never done it, according to the poll conducted for The Associated Press and Rolling Stone magazine."But it c From
A Copyfighter's Musings on February 3, 2006 at 4:45 a.m..
EDP / GED / HSED
What do these acronyms have in common?... They all stand for high school equivalency programs. Find a high school completion or equivalency option that works for you.... From
Adult/Continuing Education on February 3, 2006 at 12:46 a.m..
Google Updates Toolbar - Susan Kuchinskas, Internet News
Google released a new version of its toolbar Sunday night, and added one designed for the enterprise. Google Toolbar 4.0 broadens its focus and functionality beyond Google Search, adding four new features: custom buttons, Web-based bookmarks and site-spe From
Techno-News Blog on February 3, 2006 at 12:46 a.m..
Politicians notice Wikipedia - Blogma, CNET News
Congressional staffers have made more than 1,000 changes to entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the past six months, an investigation by the Lowell Sun has found. The Massachusetts newspaper highlighted changes made by staffers for U.S. Rep Ma From
Techno-News Blog on February 3, 2006 at 12:46 a.m..