Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • False Panacea

    October 22, 2007
    University

    I ran across Jon Udell’s post on The once and future university which pointed to Mike Caulfield’s post with the video (Transcript). Technology, I think, is a false Panacea. The role of information technology is to better aggregate information for whatever it is we do. Such aggregation draws disparate sources together, but the sources fail…

  • What the Heck Is a Hot Fix?

    October 22, 2007
    Blackboard Vista, Conferences

    At the BbWorld Developers’ Conference (Thursday afternoon and Friday morning after BbWorld), there was a session by John Fontaine called What the Heck is a Hotfix? (PPT,audio recording). I’d been meaning to go look for this at the Bb Connections web site where the conference presentations were uploaded. However, I found this through a Bb…

  • links for 2007-10-21

    October 21, 2007
    Bookmarks

    NPR : Steven Pinker Comes to the ‘F’ Word’s Defense (tags: Psychology language) Cognitive Daily: Casual Fridays: What charity gimmicks are most effective? (tags: charity)

  • Worst Kind of Easter Egg

    October 20, 2007
    from LiveJournal, Photography

    Worst Kind of Easter Egg, originally uploaded by Ezra F.

  • Melungeon

    October 20, 2007
    About Me, Race / Racism

    Mom dropped me a note last night. She ran across the word melungeon while doing some genealogy research. It describes someone who is of European, African, and Native American descent. It was popular in the Appalachian Mountains and similar in use to Mulatto in being a negative term. I haven’t talked about this much on…

  • links for 2007-10-20

    October 20, 2007
    Bookmarks

    Melungeon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: culture wikipedia history)

  • D is for…

    October 20, 2007
    from LiveJournal, Memes

    Drinking Alcohol Living in a college town, alcohol is readily available. There are plenty of bars, restaurants, and stores where the purchase should be no problem at all. However, I don’t drink alcohol. Why I don’t is a multi-pronged issue: My religion, the Baha’i Faith, prohibits the drinking of alcohol. Plenty of religions prohibit the…

  • links for 2007-10-19

    October 19, 2007
    Bookmarks

    Campus Management higher education administrative solutions Host and developer for Georgia ONmyLINE (tags: university universitysystemofga)

  • links for 2007-10-18

    October 18, 2007
    Bookmarks

    Colleges Struggle to Keep Up With Storage Demands (tags: Blackboard_Vista storage) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: Professor Avatar (tags: education social) Designing For Spam (tags: google search) Customer Reference Checklist | Smiley Cat Web Design (tags: checklist software)

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