Vision of students – video reply

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Michael Wesch’s video on the state of student learning in Web2.0 America has been augmented by a remix that adds the racial dimension. Michael responds that they considered including racial statistics to the original but felt it was too emotional of an issue and would “draw attention away [...]

Back from travels

Florida. Never never land. Chicago. I’m back from far away places and have a thing or two to report.
1. Swimming with the Manatees is still the best vacation activity I’ve ever experienced. Go to Bird’s Underwater in Crystal River, Florida.
2. Best beach restaurant I’ve ever tried is The Sandbar on Anna Maria Island. Right [...]

Great MLK week music

Nice Flash typography. The music and the obvious personality of the performer are the story.

Is this a trend?

I first noticed it at Denison. I’d seen several presidents come and go at Denison and OWU; I’d met Gordon Gee at OSU; but not till Dale Knobel did I notice a President who was equally, it seemed, a scholar, a historian, with a life of his own aside from being President of a university. [...]

First time Bill Gates made me laugh

And, probably, the last.
Here’s a wide screen version with big-audience laugh-track from the CES.
Couldn’t find it yet on YouTube, but as good as it is, it doesn’t match Letterman’s version:

Fair use abuse

This Chronicle clip talks about the academic/pop culture remix uses of copyrighted video on the web. The American University profs in the interview claim that the sorts of uses they sample for the reporter are fair, and contribute to a new kind of dialog among people. I’m not inclined to agree. I think most of [...]

From Dan Pink to John Moore to Steve Jobs

Thanks to all three for leading me here to hear an inspirational message for the new year. (I’m not a poet who don’t know it … just an alliterative fool).
(Navigate to Steve Jobs’ commencement address in the right hand column)
And what is the content of the message? Stories. 3 to be exact.
Happy New Year. Stay [...]