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Today, Michigan Radio ran a story about the Red Cross strike in which they do not mention the reason for the strike, but quote at length a Red Cross representative who talks only about what a hardship this strike will present for blood collection efforts. On August 29, they ran a story about a survey . . . → Read More: Is Michigan Radio Anti-Labor? I’ve been going through my hard drive today, looking for bits I could use in upcoming projects, and trying to clean out my documents folder, which is horribly disorganized. I occasionally make a new document for a random idea that comes to me, and it sits in there forever. I thought I’d post some of . . . → Read More: Old notes: Snippets 
It is probably too early to prognosticate about Google+, but I’m going to ahead and do it anyway. First, off, here’s a good article comparing G+ to Facebook, and making the case for switching. The most important points, to my mind, are those involving ease of use and security of personal data, and Google seems . . . → Read More: Google+ first thoughts 
Sign at the register for Tree of Life An ephemeral pink gaseous cloud. Stars being formed. Fire. Water. Foliage growing. Dinosaurs. On hearing the buzz around Terrence Malick’s latest film, Tree of Life, I feared it would come off like Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, which tried to take on huge transhistorical themes, and which . . . → Read More: Tree of Life 
Woody Allen’s new film, Midnight in Paris, is the fanciful tale of a writer, Gil Prender (Owen Wilson) who is about to get married, but falls in love with the city of Paris and contemplates moving there. Every night at midnight, a car picks Gil up and brings him to his favorite era, 1920s . . . → Read More: Midnight in Paris: A review 
I have been hearing a lot lately about school districts and colleges supplying students and teachers with iPads, which strikes me both as potentially cool, but also limiting. What bothers me is that the story is always about iPads, not other tablets or systems. I am not a reflexive Apple hater, but I am critical . . . → Read More: My move to Android The recent attempts by conservative groups to use open access laws like FOIA to do blanket searches for emails of professors they deem liberal is a bald attempt to intimidate academics, whom many conservatives see as liberal and therefore enemies. This practice came to light most recently after William Cronon brought to light the actions . . . → Read More: Privacy and Professionalism II: Academic Freedom In this day, privacy seems to be a thing of the past. Employees are expected to have no private life, and if an employer discovers one, he reserves the right to fire the employee. Incidents of disciplinary action from social media and other online activity abound. Schools discipline students for posting pictures of drinking on . . . → Read More: Privacy and Professionalism, Part I What can we expect from students and what can they expect from us? This is a broad question that I would like to narrow down to technology. What they (can) expect. When I started teaching at the college level, email was still somewhat new, and many people had mobile phones, but texting was not an . . . → Read More: Expectations of Technology Access in Education A post at profhacker about writing longhand and a conversation with David Parry (web|twitter) on twitter have sparked some thoughts that have brewing for some time. I wrote a bit ago about word processors and other software shaping the writing experience, and the fact that I have found writing with Scrivener has helped me organize . . . → Read More: Tech ideology |
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