This was a presentation the other day on basic skills to survive in today’s digital jungle. The summary description is below but it feels kind of pompous when I read it now. I will likely revise it in some way in the near future. I do like the core idea that there’s a lot of […]
Month: November 2018
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-18
Photos: The Ubiquity of Smartphones – The AtlanticWorth looking at. from David C […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-11
OrcasoundCentered within the summertime habitat of the endangered southern resident killer whales, Orcasound Lab is also a good place to listen for ships passing through Haro Strait and boats traveling along the west side of San Juan Island. In the fall you can hear humpbacks, and in the summer male harbor seals vocalize nearby. Brooklyn […]
ePortfolios: Competing Concepts
I talked to some VCU people about ePortofolios1. It’s a conversation I’ve had any number of times over the years. I think that experience is leading to a better understanding of what’s going on structurally and the space we have to navigate competing interests. I’m also in a better position to show how certain technologies […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-04
Why you should never ever eat a garden slug | TreeHuggerAccording to news reports, 19-year-old Sam Ballard caved into a dare to swallow a slug. Tragically for Ballard, the slug came with the roundworm parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, AKA the punk-rock-sounding rat lungworm. While when mature these parasites take residence in rats, in their youth they […]
Weekly Work Log – 11/02
Lots of face-to-face workshops this week. The stupid thing that ate a lot of time this week was a strict setting on Maria DB which we thought was fixed but for some reason didn’t stick (evaporating fixes are the worst because you think that thing is done and not something to look at again). That […]
Weekly Work Log – 10/26
It didn’t take me long to forget to do this but I’m catching up as it was already written. For clarity this is the combined efforts of Matt, Jeff, and myself. It’s not a particularly exciting week. Lots of maintenance of things. Lots of meetings. This Week Workshops Qatar virtual workshop canceled due to flooding […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-10-28
GENERATION OF GREATNESS Our young people, for the most part — unless they are geniuses — after a very short time in college give up any hope of being individually great. They plan, instead, to be good. They plan to be effective, They plan to do their job. They plan to take their healthy place […]