This morning’s Today Show featured a segment about a New York actress who vents about her impending divorce on a YouTube video. She shot the video in her kitchen. Standing against her countertop, she dishes about the shortcomings of the couple’s sex life, offers up juicy details about the pre-nup, and angrily vents about what [...]
Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
On-line Litigating
Posted in technology on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Keeping Humanities Alive
Posted in professional, technology on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is the future of humanities in a technologically driven world? According to Paul Hammond, Director of Digital Initiatives at Rutgers University, “The future of humanities is in technologies.”
Hammond gave the keynote address, What’s New About New Media: Multimedia Composition in Today’s Classroom, at the ninth Annual Conference of the New Jersey Writing Alliance at [...]
What’s Next in Writing Tools?
Posted in technology on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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A Nation of ADD
Posted in humor, technology, wec class on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone who has ever taught an student with Attention Deficit Disorder can tell you what it looks like. The forgotten homework, the disaster inside the desk, the unfinished assignment inside the backpack. They’re all telltale signs. The adult with ADD is equally identifiable. His is the house half painted, the one with the Christmas lights still [...]
Nowhere to Hide
Posted in technology, wec class on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The other day, I couldn’t remember the web address for the home page of a graduate course I am currently taking on electronic communities and writing. Rather than look it up, I decided to take the easy way out—I did a Google search. I typed in the instructor’s name and the course abbreviation, then hit [...]
What Would McCluhan Think of YouTube?
Posted in technology, wec class on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ineresting.
Electronic Shopping Buddies
Posted in technology on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The business section of this morning’s Asbury Park Press had an article about a web site where shoppers get together on-line to chat about shopping, share information about products, and steer each other to good buys. The website, called Kaboodle, looks and acts like a social networking site and combines two of the things Americans [...]
Why I like Amazon.com
Posted in technology on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nielsen and Loranger’s Prioritizing Web Usability has many concrete applications in my daily life. Had I read this book a year ago, I would have known not to side with colleagues who felt their creative freedom was under attack because the college web pages were being standardized. I’ve learned about various things I have [...]
On “Why Do Students’ Blog?”
Posted in technology on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Diane Penrod’s informative and entertaining article does much to enlighten the non-blogger regarding the fascination with this technological mode of self-expression. One wonders, however, if blogging has more to do with a disconnected society heading for a psychological breakdown than it does with writing. If it is true, as Penrod says, that bloggers write “because they want [...]
On Vannevar Bush
Posted in technology on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I remember the day a tractor trailer pulled up outside my college newswriting classroom in 1975. The professor escorted us inside and pointed to the rows of PCs sitting atop long tables. What he showed us was the newsroom of the future. “Someday,” he said, “newsrooms will look like this.” Of course, none of us [...]
