digital culture through file types
This is a fabulous idea by Mark Sample: studying digital culture through file types. He mentions MP3, GIF, HTML, and...
Tag: Computers
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laptops of the Borg
What, yet another Borg-Complex argument for laptops in the classroom? Yeah. Another one. Laptops are not a “new,...
coping with OS frustration
Alex Payne recently did what I do, in a less thorough way, from time to time: he re-evaluated his commitment to the...
down memory lane
A conversation on Twitter the other day reminded me of my earliest experiences with online life. It was in 1992 that I...
backup strategies
Here’s an odd post by Gina Barreca about a student of hers whose completely un-backed-up computer died....
I want to believe
Returning to the subject of today’s earlier post: The authors of that study write this in summation: Statistical...
doing things with computers
This is the kind of thing I just don’t understand the value or use of: This paper is the report of a study...
reader’s report: Jane Smiley
Well, the recent traveling and busyness may have kept me from posting, but it didn’t keep me from reading....
learning Greek
Sure, people think it’s a good idea to learn Greek. But of course they would when you put the question that way....
confusion reigns
Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen see user-interaction chaos in new gestural devices: In Apple Mail, to delete an unread...