Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: Internet

  • Study Groups Violate Academic Integrity?

    Maybe I need to add a “What were they thinking?” category? A student created a Facebook group for chemistry students to ask peers for help. As these students already collaborate face-to-face in a study room and use official tutoring services, this was just replicating this online. The students claim to just be helping each other.…

  • Product Confusion

    Someone hit my web site looking for “blackboard administrator certification”. So I was curious out what was out there on the Internet for this. I ran across a Blackboard training web site. In looking though the offerings, I was struck by the use of two different names for the same product. (I don’t mean like…

  • Who Is Benefiting From This?

    My employer does not pay for my cell phone or Internet service. When new administrators interview or schedule time a forum to talk to us, the question of them paying for one or both services usually is asked. Usually the response is something about it being complicated with a ton of paper work and an…

  • Few Care What Google Says About Them

    Yeah, I keep writing about identity management. [1][2]. Few Internet users say they Google themselves regularly – about three-quarters of self-searchers say they have done so only once or twice. Study: Googling Oneself Is More Popular People admit to having looked themselves up once or twice, but few people regularly monitor themselves. I guess its…

  • Are Books the Only Way to Learn?

    Is the Internet really a bad invention? According to Doris Lessing, yes. We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women, who have had years of education, to know nothing of the world, to have read nothing,…

  • Del.icio.us Daily Posting

    I’ve terminated the daily posting of links from my Del.icio.us account. If you liked those links, then I suggest updating your RSS to the Feedburner RSS feed for Rants (this site). Feel free to comment, email, or IM should you need a recommendation for a reading RSS.

  • links for 2007-11-25

    Internet users give up privacy in exchange for trust | Science Blog (tags: privacy)

  • Sunset on Whois

    Whois may die. I’ve used it in the past to determine who owns a web site. I’ve even been frustrated that a very negative web site had a privacy blocker in place so I could not determine who ran the site. At the same time, I have the same protection on most of my domains.…

  • Input Into Decisions

    Fear brings out the worst in people. Fear of change or the unknown manifests in criticism, anger, and overreaction. Yes, I am guilty of this like everyone else… I am not somehow above all this. The idea of democracy, I think, where everyone is able to provide input into the making of a decision was…