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Monday, March 29th, 2010You’re working on your Ph.D. or you just recently finished your dissertation? Congratulations, you are now one of a handful of experts in your domain. Yes, even as a “lowly” graduate student, you still know more about your research than the vast majority of people, and that makes you an expert. So what are you […]
Good lord, have I been blogging that long?
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009I got an invitation to join a group on Facebook of old-timey bloggers: people who had been blogging before 29 September 2003. I was able to pinpoint when I started using my own blogging tool (which I have since abandoned): 8 October 2003. I know that I was blogging before that on another lab server, […]
Online Fandom
Monday, October 26th, 2009One of the people I follow in Twitter (I can’t find who at the moment so they shall remain anonymous for now) pointed to an interesting article at Online Fandom about a recent addition to Facebook which now tries to suggest we interact more often with our Facebook friends. Nancy Baym explains that Facebook has […]
A useful tool for blogging scientists
Monday, December 10th, 2007Now this is very nice: Daniel Lemire points us to a Google chart API that lets you incorporate charts directly into your HTML. Holy crap! No longer will you need to save your figures from Excel, upload them to your server, and then point to them in your text. Now you can just recreate the […]
Blog on virtual worlds
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Just found out about Constance Steinkuehler and group’s research blog on virtual worlds (read: World of Warcraft, looks like): Pop Cosmopolitanism.
Pop.Cosmo is a research team with the Games, Learning & Society Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that studies cognition & learning in the context of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) or virtual worlds. Constance […]
uncov: for the snarky comments
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Part of my job is keeping track of what is going on in the high tech world, which is why I read tech-related blogs. Yesterday, I came across another such blog, but one with a bit of a bite: uncov. These people are determined to uncover the faults of the web 2.0 apps that […]
Second Life and SlideShare
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007I was looking for information on education projects in Second Life which led me to a couple of interesting resources. Doncha just love serendipity?
For people working on education research in Second Life, Intellagirl’s (Sarah Robbins) blog looks like a good read.
And her blog led me to SlideShare, where you can upload and share slide shows. […]
