Category Archives: productive mess

Calling for Five Minutes of Your Time

Posted on November 14, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I just read a disturbing story on how libraries are being pressured away from cooperating with open source project: a concise post, written by Aaron Swartz over at Raw Thought. If you don’t have the time to read the article, … Continue reading →

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Embracing Error

Posted on June 2, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I found Tim Barker’s “Error, the Unforeseen, and the Emergent The Error and Interactive Media Art” on work/space. In Barker, I hear what Lanham would refer to as a strong defense for rhetoric: one that recognizes probability not as a … Continue reading →

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Shouldn’t This Be Bigger News

Posted on March 14, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Came across this story on artificial intelligence this morning. Let’s put it alongside this: I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all … Continue reading →

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Reputation as Ethos for the Responsible Netizen

Posted on September 27, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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 →

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Computers, Writing, & Productive Mess

Posted on May 17, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Just got back from Detriot and Computers & Writing, our talk went well. Three of us presented on wiring classrooms together for massive forum discussions (80 students participating in one discussion on the history of the higher education in the … Continue reading →

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