I recently got a Netflix film packaged in what I thought was a cheesy Valentine’s day ad (see above image). I was partially right, it was cheesy a holiday-inspired ad, the only rub was that it was being passed off as art because it was created by the legendary Orlando Bloom, a.k.a. Legolas. All [...]
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5 reasons why I want to go to Northern Voice
Published by January 23rd, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 10 CommentsMy plea for travel funds from Northern Voice at UBC:
More seriously, I have no more developmental funds from UMW left, and I think that Northern Voice is where I need to be. The structure of the conference, the caliber of people, and the possibility of figuring out what is in the water up [...]
Darcy Norman recently had a great post on current definitions of the digital native and spaghetti sauce. I love his metaphysical marriage of such unlikely bedfellows as learners and gravy. He adopts this conceit from Malcolm Gladwell’s 2004 TedTech Talk in order to talk about the varying modalities of teaching and learning in technology we [...]
Who says there is no good content on Youtube?
Published by January 20th, 2007 in movies and video. 4 CommentsPlease be warned that this video requires a sense of humor!
Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout - a quick review
Published by January 12th, 2007 in Uncategorized and movies. 0 CommentsThis week has been a long one, the semester starts Monday and I have much to say about my recent experiments with Drupal, MediaWiki, bbpress, Open Journal Systems, and WordPress. But until I muster up the time and energy to discuss this work in more detail, I wanted to share my two cents on a [...]
Colonizing Social Sites: It’s Fun & It’s FREE!
Published by December 20th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 5 CommentsJim Spadacinni at Ideum recently posted on the potential of institutions -in this case museums- to colonize web 2.0 spaces (article link). He brings up a lot of excellent examples in his post. See his discussion of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s My Space profile and Ideum’s work-in-progress with the Maxwell [...]
I was just reading Andy Rush’s blog, spending some quality time admiring his new “My YouTube Favorites” sidebar widget -very nice!, when I came cross a veritable gem! He is always good for an entertaining video, but the one I clicked on today was a lot more than that. YOUTUBERS, despite the melodramatic [...]
A Social Revolution: The Web 2.0 Poster
Published by December 16th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 2 CommentsRoss Mayfield’s “revolucion” poster puts a very specific context of the social back into Social Networking!
“Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people,”
Ross Mayfield - WEb 2.0 Conference.
via Christian Contini
Mikhail Gershovich over at cacophony just pointed to a great video on YouTube that features a clip from a 1980s sitcom called Grammar Mechanic. If I am remembering correctly, it was sandwiched between The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes which, as the video below confirms, was a grossly underrated period of fine television. [...]
There has been some speculation as to my uncanny resemblance to Gordon Freeman -a video game superhero with a Ph.D. in Physics. I hope the pictures below will finally put the question as to whether I am or am not this “so-called last freeman” to rest once and for all.
As you can plainly [...]
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