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Resist the present!

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Not to mention the future: Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind - ChronicleReview.com
So let’s restrain the digitizing of all liberal-arts classrooms. More than that, given the tidal wave of technology in young people’s lives, let’s frame a number of classrooms and courses as slow-reading (and slow-writing) spaces. Digital technology has become an imperial force, and [...]

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Social media

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

A wonderfully succint definition by lynnewu on Twitter:
social media are “presence by other means”, and that includes Twitter, IM, and SecondLife

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Great good news from Microsoft

March 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

The web geek in me is pleased as punch with this announcement IEBlog : Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.

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