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Insignificant Wranglings
Category Archives: internet
Just When You Thought It Was Safe…
Way back in the Fall of 07, I decided to vote for Obama based on his policies concerning media and technology, specifically the internet. Obama was the only candidate who opposed private regulation of information–comparing the internet to a public … Continue reading
Reputation as Ethos for the Responsible Netizen
I picked up the quizercise from Karl Stolley (who, I am pretty sure, just adapted Janice Lauer’s “writing opportunity”): every Monday, before we begin discussing the week’s readings, I ask students some kind of question that calls on them to … Continue reading
Posted in 106blog, digital-media, internet, jobmarket, productive mess, teaching, theory-in-practice, writing-tech
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106: Week One
If you are looking for baby photos, then you should scroll down to the previous post. If you are looking to pass English 106, then you should scroll down to the baby photos, sufficiently oooh and aaah, and then scoll … Continue reading
Posted in 106blog, blogging, internet, lecture-notes, teaching
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Content v. Copy
Here’s one of the problems that comes with creating a syllabus. You carefully arrange each reading and budget out your (and your students’) time. Then, checking up on your RSS feeds, you come across an article far better than most … Continue reading
Standards Compliant URLs
I haven’t put up a technology-oriented post in awhile, but, then again, I haven’t been doing much web design this summer. This week I’ve started working on my course website for the fall, and thought I might share a cool, … Continue reading
Victory is (sorta) Ours!
SoundExchange (representing the music industry) has agreed to re-think its fee structure for internet radio, 16 days before the killer rate increase. DiMA has a mixed review to the announcement. While many people are questioning the move, it at least … Continue reading
Posted in digital-media, internet, ip, music, politics
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A Sign of the Apocolypse
I had another post written up and ready to go last night, when I came across this NYTimes article on a chef suing several posh New York restaurants for stealing her menu. I laughed it off, dismissed it as crazy, … Continue reading
Help Save the Music
Today is a “Day of Silence” for internet radio, the SaveNetRadio Coalition is encouraging all internet radio stations to go silent for one day in protest of the extreme rate hikes expected to go into effect July 15th. Although I … Continue reading
Posted in digital-media, internet, politics, things-to-do
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So Angry I Can’t Think Straight
I concluded an otherwise relaxing morning reading a thread on advertising and ISP’s over at /. I am now ready to enlist in some nerd militia and storm an ISP. Let me explain. For those with no desire to RTFA … Continue reading
Posted in crime, internet, net-neutrality
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There goes Obi-Wan
I read a kind of farewell post over at Lawrence Lessig’s blog yesterday with a heavy heart. Lessig announced that he will be changing the focus of his research and activism, moving away from intellectual property and net neutrality and … Continue reading
Posted in digital-media, education, internet, net-neutrality, politics
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