February 2009
King Corn Versus An Urban Rustic →
I heard a brief interview on the radio with independent documentary filmmaker, Aaron Woolf. He directed Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball, and the United States, and Dying to Leave:…
January 2009
Locavore Nation →
Listening to the podcast edition of the program The Splendid Table (episode January 17, 2009) got me thinking about several topics that I will write about this weekend.
The show sponsored…
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Even Shakespeare Goes Open Source →
William Shakespeare is
probably the original open source author online. People have been putting up Shakespeare Websites since the beginning of
the Web since his work is public domain and…
Help TV →
More and more companies are offering
video to support their tech products. At one time, that meant a few screen capture clips, but now it can be a
full-fledged channel of videos.
Two…
Mother Earth News Magazine GROW IT Blog →
gardening DIY
Super Short Attention Span Theater →
Someone wanted to buy a three-second commercial during NBC’s Super Bowl coverage and the network said no. I also heard that Miller Brewing Company is running one-second ads with local NBC stations….
What Are Adults Doing On Social Networks? →
Question: Are there more adults or teenagers on the popular social networks (like Facebook, MySpace)?
Answer:
Adults
Percentage wise, the majority of teenagers join social networks, but adults…
Listening →
I hope you are listening to podcasts by now. Whether you are using a slick Apple iPod touch or a Zune or you are content, as I am, with my small and much lower-priced Apple…
Don't Feed the Trolls →
A troll, in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an
online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room. Why? Their…
John Updike 1932-2009 →
“What does he mean,” I asked, “the humanistic values implicit in the physical sciences?” “You ask him,” my father said. “Maybe he knows. Maybe down deep in the atom there’s a…
John Updike 1932-2009 →
March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009
John Updike died today. He was 76. I could write a lot about him. I have read almost all of his books. I bought and read every one of his novels. He…
A Knol Milestone →
It has
been a year since I first wrote about Knol. Knol is Google’s Web encyclopedia
project. (A “knol” is their “unit of knowledge”)
Unlike Wikipedia, Knol tells you who wrote
the…
1968 Plus 40 Equals Obama →
I heard a commentator on CBS’ Sunday Morning program yesterday mention that Robert Kennedy had predicted that America could have an African-American president in 2008. Really? I did some Net…
Starting Today: poems for the first 100 days of... →
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking America.” President Barack Obama, January 20, 2009
Just another example of the interesting…
Our Internet President →
Obama using his Blackberry.
I guess
you’ve heard that President Obama is going to get to keep his Blackberry.
His first day in office got a big
inauguration Internet start. Just look…
iPhone Class in Session →
“CS 485 -The study of new and/or advanced topics in an area of computer science not regularly covered in any other CIS course.” —Thus Spake the Course Catalog
Last Tuesday, January 20th, was the first meeting of a brand new class at NJIT: Apple iPhone Application Development. As part of a development…
December 21, 2012 →
Some people disagree about what humankind should expect on December 21, 2012. There’s not even agreement on whether or not that is the correct date. But you’re going to hear more about the date…
WordPress TV →
I’m still pretty new to WordPress, so I was happy to stumble upon WordPress TV which has lots of onlne videos about working with WordPress.
Has YouTube Jumped the Shark? →
Has YouTube jumped the shark? When the Pope has a YouTube channel, you know it is officially mainstream. Why is the Pope doing this? Check out this short introduction from the…
AdobeTV - Visual Design →
helpful instructional videos
AdobeTV - Digital Design →
online video instruction focusing on their products
Unprogrammed Worship →
A few years ago, I took an evening “adult school” class that met at a local Friends Meeting House. It wasn’t a course on anything that had to do with Quakers. It just met there. One night a…
Flat Classrooms and Future of Education Simulcast →
View my page on Future of
Education From the folks at Classroom 2.0 The kick-off event is Saturday, January 24, for
their Future of Education and will be a “simulcast” in order…
The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg - The Film →
Most video on YouTube are short, but lately I have found much longer pieces available there. Case in point: The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg - The Film For 25 years, Academy…
Economic Indicators 2.0 →
I’ll bet it’s the dream of some Web 2.0 entrepreneurs that they create a cool product and then get bought by someone
like Google.
The problem is that sometimes these services are bought and then…
Modern Financial Insanity →
Is there an upside to the financial chaos of the stock markets? Maybe. I was listening last month to an NPR interview with author Michael Lewis. Lewis wrote his 1989 best-seller Liar’s Poker…
"Attack of Literacy!" →
one of the finalists for best design
Megacities →
megacity - term used by the United Nations for cities or metropolitan areas with more than 10 million people. Projected growth: Megacity country pop. 2003 (mil) est. pop. 2015 Tokyo Japan 35.0…
Is College A Waste of Time? →
A few weeks ago, I read in the New York Times a column by Charles Murray entitled “Should the Obama
Generation Drop Out?” I wrote about it on another blog, but
the opinion continues to…
Watching the Inuaguration Online →
On my campus, there will be TV monitors set up in many areas for people to watch the inauguration of President
Barack Obama. But I suspect that this new President, who is sometimes called the…
Edgar Allen Poe →
January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
Happy Birthday, Mister Poe →
Edgar Allen Poe’s 200th Birthday
More poet animationshttp://poetsonline.org for poetic inspiration
Good Reads →
I have been using the service called GoodReads for the past few months. It lets you see what your friends are reading, keep track
of what you’ve read and what you’d like to read. (Hopefully,…
Waiting For Charlie Rose →
This is not a new video, but if you haven’t seen it, it is a new video.
PBS talker Charlie Rose in conversation with Charlie Rose. Talking about Internet technology (perhaps).
In this editing…
Steven Spielberg Tells Andy Warhol How He... →
1979 - Andy Warhol buys a broadcast-quality camera and starts playing around with television “programs” for Manhattan public access cable channels. “Andy Warhol’s TV” ran for 27…
Bright College Years →
Bright College Years is part of the “Sixties Legacy” series. It’s a feature length documentary on the “student revolution” at Yale University.
I recall that on May Day (May 1) 1970 there was…
Jazz and Zen →
I like this list. Check out the full post at http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2009/01/zen-jazz-creativity-lessons-from-the-art-of-jazz-part-iii.html Twenty-one things…
Penny Postcards →
Montclair Teachers College
(now Montclair State University)
I came across two shoeboxes full of postcards that I have saved over the years.
Some are cards that were sent to me. Some…
Playing With Form: Sonnet + Addonizio = Sonnenizio →
In Kim Addonizio’s fourth book of poems, What Is This Thing Called Love, I was surprised to find that she had written another paradelle. She has a poem (“Ever After”)…
Some Lessons From Digital Conversion →
In a month,
analog TV goes away. It’s the form of television we have had since the beginning of broadcast TV.
Most of
us have been using digital TV for the past four years. People who are…
Tell Google What To Do →
Companies seem to be increasingly asking customers to participate in developing products. This social networking on
the corporate level might have to do with adding new features to an…
It's the End of the Dodge Festival As We Know It →
and none of us feel fine. Many of you who read this blog probably received this email from David Grant, President and CEO, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation this week. Greetings to you all at the…
Happy 200th Birthday Mr. Poe →
Next week is Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday. Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the…
Snag Films →
I just discovered the site snagfilms.com that let’s you watch
full-length documentary films for free. They have a library of over 200 documentaries which you can browse by
topic or by…
S35 The Next Generation →
As Serendipity35 has grown over the past 3 years, Ken and I have worked to keep it up-to-date (Ken’s prodigious Wordsmithy) and updated (my software tweaks and twists). Over the Christmas…