The Ning site for the Institute is up and running. It’s just getting out of the gate. People have signed up, some additions have been made, but we haven’t begun to spend significant time there. I feel confident that if people start to see it as a place where they can do a lot of [...]
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Spoiler: If you are one of the three people in the country who has not seen There Will Be Blood, then you won’t want to read this post.
Very busy around Brooklyn this week. I could start many places, but Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing, you may have heard, never was brought to the floor for [...]
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I’ve got to say bravo the WordPress folks for the upgrade they did on the Dashboard, but I know it’s going to take a little while to get used to it.
I know that WordPress 2.5 was just released. I don’t know if this new design is consistent with the new version of WordPress or something [...]
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Posted in 2.0, Blogging, Pheremones on March 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Before Spring Break two weeks ago, I mentioned my frustration with having to use the Blackboard CMS systems in my comp classes. As I said back then, I was pretty fed up with the clunkiness of the system and the lack of intuitive movement it allowed. I spent a good portion of Spring Break migrating [...]
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I can’t deny it. It could be cleaner, a little sharper, less clunky. It’s those arrows I think. I wanted to use Jing for this tutorial that I put together for my students, but I was having issues with my account (or, more likely, I was having issues pulling up my username and password from [...]
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Posted in Blogging, tagged Blogging, new york, wordpress on February 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I’m not the only one who has lost their posts in the past. I have a strong feeling that they’ll be gone forever. These comments are from August 2007.
timethief Inactive August 9th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
You are not alone. Problems are afoot and the staff are aware of them http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=14316
sincitykitty Member August 9th, [...]
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Posted in Blogging, tagged blogs on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Logged on to the computer and all my blog posts were somehow deleted. It looks like I got hacked or something. I have no idea what happened. I didn’t change themes. I didn’t do anything. I have a note out to admin. Hopefully, I’ll be able to recover the posts. Sorry for the inconvenience. At [...]
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After my discussion of an article idea yesterday, I received three pieces of helpful information to continue thinking about emergence and CMS’s. One came from a colleague over email and another shows up on Donna’s Blog where Scot adds a riff. I’ll start with the blog and then move to the email, which adds an [...]
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Posted in 2.0, Blogging, tagged ants, CMS, emergence, schooliness on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Someone I work with hit me and a few others up with an article idea that had come to him after his students bombarded a discussion list inside of Blackboard. (As I’ve said before, BB has been the standard sameness around SJU.) He hit us up wondering about the phenomenon and about how the traditional [...]
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Posted in Blogging on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Back when I was at the University of Texas, Arlington working on my PhD in rhetoric, I started a coupla blogs. The first was “Neo-Baroque”, the second was “Workin’ On it.” I used them as think places for my research on my dissertation, but, for some reason, I never quite felt comfortable putting my research [...]
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