It's been one long fall. And it's finally come to a close. Late December is when everyone comes out with their "best of" or "worst of" lists, so I thought I'd throw together a few lists. There's no best and no worst, simply a snapshot of some of the things that made life as a… Continue reading Goodbye 2006, Goodbye US Airways
Tag: Teaching
GMU Course Blogs
I've been fed up with the standard issue university courseware options--namely Blackboard and WebCT--so I decided this semester to wing it with my own version of courseware (what I'm calling "of-courseware") powered by WordPress. Although Sample Reality runs on Movable Type, I've been hearing good things about WordPress, and I thought I'd give it a… Continue reading GMU Course Blogs
Search Inside This Book
Like many avid readers and scholars I am thoroughly enamored of Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book feature. The feature debuted October 23, 2003 with the complete text of more than 120,000 books. I can't find any recent data on how large the digital archive has grown in the past several months, but the folks at… Continue reading Search Inside This Book
Story-Space-Surveillance Triangle
My posting the other day about DARPA's now-defunct Total Information Awareness project inspired me to rethink a New Media course I've been designing, using the concept of TIA as one of the three themes for the course. The technology that DARPA proposed in its Total Information Awareness program is an example of what Laura Marks… Continue reading Story-Space-Surveillance Triangle