Posts
This page is the home to both long(er)-form blog posts (which are collected separately here and have their own RSS feed) and to microposts (~280 characters) that get forwarded to my Twitter and Micro.blog accounts (and can also be read here or followed here). You can read more about the reasoning behind my web presence on my About page.
- May 9, 2019 Currently in the middle of the long process of purging old tweets from my Twitter account, so my profile page looks weird, as though I haven’t tweeted regularly since 2017.
- May 8, 2019 Thoughts on the AECT child care survey
- May 3, 2019 Super excited that Alfred 4 is coming out this summer. I was just thinking yesterday how the app continues to impress even after years of using it.
- May 2, 2019 YouTube is a great way to talk about personalization algorithms. On one hand, it’s quite good at what it does. On the other, that often leads to my watching more YouTube than I meant to, and I resent it for that.
- April 30, 2019 Repeatedly stopping this afternoon to jot down notes for next offering of a particular course. Not sure if this makes me a good prof (thinking ahead) or a bad prof (I’m supposed to be grading)
- April 29, 2019 Odio and Internet Radio
- April 27, 2019 Reading Cory Doctorow’s “radicalized,” and it’s great so far. Funny how a story like “Unauthorized Bread” can make me angry in a way that reading news stories and blog posts on the same subject just can’t compete with.
- April 25, 2019 It’s superhero day at the YMCA tomorrow, and my wife is going to high fitness class as Squirrel Girl after years of teasing me for liking such a relatively-obscure character. Counting this one as a win!
- April 24, 2019 Sometimes I unplug my headphones and give anyone walking by my door the gift of learning about Johnny Hallyday.
- April 23, 2019 I recently finished “Weapons of Mass Diplomacy,” the English translation of a comic based on the author’s time in the French foreign ministry in the leadup to the Iraq War. Loved it, but wish my library also had it in the original French.
- April 19, 2019 Just got a notification that today marks a whole year since I began journaling in Day One. I’ve really enjoyed it so far (even if I have a couple dozen incomplete entries right now that I need to go back and finish).
- April 18, 2019 Returning proofs for an accepted article is always fun!
- April 17, 2019 New Presentation: Every Nation, Kindred, Tongue, and Tweeple
- April 16, 2019 To be honest, I don’t know that I’d prefer radio to TV/cinema in *every* instance, but I believe firmly that it’s more about how you use a medium than it is about what medium you use. Dangerous to think one is inherently better than another.
- April 16, 2019 I once had a neighbor who argued that because it had higher fidelity, 3-D was the future of cinema. To prove his point, he asked “who would prefer an audio adaptation to a video one?” and was surprised when I, a big radio fan, raised my hand.
- April 15, 2019 Il y a une cathédrale magnifique qui brûle, et le président américain se permet de donner des conseils aux sapeurs-pompiers. Je n’en peux plus.
- April 10, 2019 Every year, I hit a point where my productivity system feels constraining, so I give it up for a few days, only to feel like I no longer have any control over my time.
- April 8, 2019 Sometimes, being a bike commuter means spending the first 30 minutes of your work day fixing a spring clasp on a pannier.
- April 5, 2019 I don’t really understand how fraternities and sororities work, so whenever I hear about Greek life, I half-expect someone to follow up with a discussion of “Roman life”, where all the names are different even though everything else is the same.
- April 4, 2019 New Presentation: Implications of Spam for Educational Twitter Researchers