Archive for September, 2007
on notes from the interblags: what’s with the term?
I just received a comment on another post asking about the term “interblags,” which I use when making quick notes about things I’ve read online. Maybe I should explain the term. XKCD, one of my favorite webcomics, has a chart of the terms used to make fun the Internet that I stole the word from. [...]
notes from the interblags: a litany of things
• Via Spinuzzi, this article on Why we remember what we write. • A couple blog posts on Facebook and MySpace. Joseph Orosco asks if social networking sites are warping our concepts of friendship and community. Steven Krause explores the relationship of Dunbar’s number (Wikipedia) to online social networks. • Academic freedom is (as always) [...]
scroogled
If you have a minute, you might want to read this excellent story by Boing Boing‘s Cory Doctorow. I had been meaning to read it for a few weeks, and finally got around to it. It’s pretty good. The tagline: Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your [...]
notes from the interblags
Some interesting links: • Konrad Glogowski posts about his own voice in blogs while teaching 8th grade. I found his post really interesting in regards to personal voice and identity presentation/representation. An excerpt: What I am really concerned about, however, is my own voice. For the past three years, my three successive grade eight classes [...]
we’re all so anxious, so very very anxious
Via this Nonist post, I read the great discussion happening at Varieties of Unrelgious Experiences on Humanism and the virtue of anxiety. Pretty interesting stuff. I don’t feel versed well enough to add to the discussion there, but it does raise an interesting question. There is this general anxiety (or crisis) in the humanities regarding [...]
bodies, bodies, bodies… and ears and rings and hoops
Via confusion at the Blogora over what type of ears a graduate student is wearing, I read this Chronicle article about professional dress in academe. I too am confused about what type of ears the graduate student in this article is wearing, but I’m hoping for rabbit ears. But this seems to link back to [...]
technology biff
My first class went pretty well, but I couldn’t get the smart cart to work in order to show some information and some web resources to students. I got it figured out as class was ending and students were filling out a form to give me information about their previous writing experience. It turns out, [...]
do you ever conflate scholars?
I am almost ashamed to admit this (but not so much that I’m not afraid to admit it here), but it wasn’t until recently that I realized that Harold Bloom and Allan Bloom were different people. I’m feeling a bit naïve now, which is fine, but this is also a lesson I’m learning: I’m constantly [...]
notes from the interblags, talk like a pirate day edition
It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I refuse to celebrate (while it is fun, I feel somewhat uneasy about the whole concept, for reasons I can’t quite explain yet). Here’s some interesting stuff I want to catalogue/share: • Sometime I need to read Craig Bellamy’s new Fast Capitalism article he discusses here • Is [...]
notes on academic agonism from Mike Rose
I have one more thing to say about the kind of critique I tried to fashion [in Possible Lives]. Academic training is agonistic; graduate study instills in us the penchant for critique, and the disciplinary tools to do it. More generally, Western intellectual life is energized by attack and counterattack — just read the letters [...]
