Category Archives: Writing

Slow numbers

My department’s general education enrollment continues to decline. We need to diversify our Continue reading

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Thesis thesis

Yesterday two graduate projects crossed my desk: Katherine Schutte’s thesis about the use of blogging in first-year high school classrooms, and Alison McGaughey’s prospectus for her masters’ examination. One almost done, and one getting started.

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WordPress content management

WordPress as content management Continue reading

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Updates

Facebook status updates: the memes go meta with the latest interface changes. Continue reading

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@Facebook update

Facebook’s new @name syntax: copying Twitter to put the wall back into focus? Continue reading

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Office goes online, maybe

Microsoft Office goes online, a little slowly, but for a reason: cloud via Office, not via browser. Continue reading

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From A to <A> is under contract

I’m happy to say that at long last, From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Jeff and I hope to see it in print in Spring 2010.

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CPTSC 2008

I recently attended CPTSC 2008 in Minneapolis: pretty good conference, damn good beer. Continue reading

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if (Web == OS)

About Ted Dziuba’s “web != OS” rant, inspired by Google’s Chrome browser Continue reading

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Beer & evidence

I recently traveled to Chicago for excellent beer and a course by Edward Tufte. Continue reading

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