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Archive for year 2009
Old School Star Wars
Dec 25th
It was an old school Star Wars Christmas for my nephews this year. Yes, I’m way jealous…
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Mother’s Acting Up
Nov 29th
I love those random, unplanned experiences that often land in our laps. A few weeks ago I ran into a faculty member and her friend at a local breakfast joint… in the midst of our quick conversation we ended up (as so often happens in my life) talking about social media and Twitter. This initial conversation led to a follow up breakfast meeting with several very cool folks from the organization Mother’s Acting Up (MAU). We had a really great breakfast talking and strategizing about Twitter… what I like to think of as “understanding social media and how not to use it for advertising.” It was really fun and rewarding to spend time with such genuine people who are interested in engaging with social media in the right way. They had lots of cool ideas that they’re beginning to put into action. I’m looking forward to seeing how their efforts grow and develop, I hope the social media seeds we planted bear lots of fruit.
Mother’s Acting Up is a great group doing important and meaningful work. Check out their site for more info and ways you can get involved.
http://www.mothersactingup.org/
And on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mothersactingup
Tweetin On A Jet Plane (YouTube vid)
Nov 15th
#educause09
Nov 4th
Attending the Educause conference for educational technologists in Denver this week. A quick shot from the opening Keynote.
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Brilliant YouTube Vid- GWave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Oct 16th
This is wicked good. Especially if you’ve used Wave, you can see how they’ve integrated a lot of the features and tools. If only Wave flowed this smoothly {little laggy so far}
Def adult rated (it’s Pulp Fiction after all).Posted via email from MarkGammon
Wave has landed
Oct 14th
I was finally hit by one of the GWave roll outs, so I’m on board. Now I just have to find some other Wavers to ride with…
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What is a Browser? (YouTube)
Oct 12th
I hadn’t seen this before. Interesting and gives some insight into just how quickly particular technologies can be integrated into our daily lives… and of course the relative transparency of certain tools. The browser as search raises lots of potential questions… Google’s ubiquity, that the clip was produced by Google, that it’s not how (through a browser) but what (searching) people are doing that defines their perceptions… Thoughts?
Post: A River Runs Through It- Persistently Present
Oct 12th
David Liu, an executive at AOL, calls it replacing the in-box with “a river that continues to flow as you dip into it.
via online.wsj.com
Thinking about this quote from David Liu in the WSJ.com article dovetails nicely with a key facet of my dissertation research. Email works with the old online (check/send messages), offline framework. However, we’re increasingly moving to a state of constant, or as I argue, persistent presence in our lives and selves. The online/offline dynamic, while still important, is becoming less effective as a mode of thinking about our relationships to technology/media AND each other. We’re no longer “going online” to check mail, or look something up… when was the last time you told someone you were “going online?” This is no longer an action we do or place we go because we’re already there- persistently. Even when “we” are not there in an active way, a sense of us is, continually informing and being. This is what I call the “social extensibility” of technology, the way it allows us to expand, extend, and enhance our self and social presence. More to follow…
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