dopplr
When I was at Harvard this summer, I was introduced to a slew of social networking tools. I joined Facebook a couple weeks before the session started and have come to use it on a daily basis to keep up with my SDP and other academic contacts. Now that applications have been added, I can [...]
Oh Snap!
I just found out, funnily enough, that I added Snapshots to my blog two days after Jill/txt disabled it on hers! I added it this morning after seeing that my husband’s new blog automatically had the plug-in. While I’ve had some issues with it today–sometimes the snapshots show up, other times they don’t–I do like [...]
thankful for the job search???
It’s been a wonderful couple of days, with a trip to New Orleans for a conference last weekend [a post on that is already in the works], and then coming back to Tampa for Thanksgiving break and the end of the semester in sight. Only two more weeks of teaching and grading, and I couldn’t [...]
Give One Get One
I’ve been going back and forth about participating in this program–not because I don’t believe in the OLPC initiative, but because I felt that I’d only be purchasing it for novelty sake. Do I really need another computer? Still, its size and “cute” factor are part of its charm, and it was brilliant for the [...]
Writer's Strike
I’ve been wanting to learn more about the Writer’s Strike and what exactly the issues/terms/wants are and was just pointed to this blog by one of my students. It’s a frequently updated overview of what the impact of new media is upon the writers’ lives and an explanation as to why, in their words, they [...]