Seth Godin has a post today about how Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about Chris Anderson’s book. At least, I think that’s what the post is about. As usual, Seth is speaking as a deep insider and assumes I’ve read everything “Malcolm” and “Chris” have written. I haven’t. Anyway, Seth is responding to and offering...
Read more →UPDATE: I got my iPhone fixed by Mission: Repair and am very happy. See my review post. Yes, I dropped my iPhone today. Yes, that drop, from less than 3 feet, cracked the glass. Yes, I wanted to cry. Now what do I do? I went to the Genuis Bar at the Briarwood Apple...
Read more →A couple of commenters asked why I use the ChronoSync + SuperDuper! combination instead of just Time Machine. The main reason? Time Machine uses too many resources. It’s also slow. For awhile I avoided it because I wasn’t sure how to make a bootable backup, but Mac OS X hints has instructions. I don’t...
Read more →I’m starting a new research project on which I collaborate with two other people, one in Ann Arbor, MI and one in Phoenix, AZ. We use Macs and PCs. We have no budget for software. We’re likely to have a bunch of qualitative data to keep track of and share. My first task is...
Read more →A couple weeks ago, my advisor counseled me to make the research statement I was writing for a job application “more manifesto-y.” A few days later, we elected Barack Obama President of the United States, spurring at least one manifesto . This week I have watched an embarrassing number of...
Read more →I like my new iPhone a great deal. I especially like good apps. For instance, the Yelp app rocks; it uses the “current location” feature of the iPhone to show me stuff nearby (such as restaurants). And it’s Yelp, which I already use a lot, so it includes user-contributed reviews and info. The Yelp...
Read more →It occurs to me, while riding the Microsoft Connector bus (MSFT’s private, wireless-enabled buses that shuttle us through a reverse commute between Seattle and Redmond) back to my sublet, that I have changed. When you read what I have to say, you may think that only what I think has changed and that I...
Read more →Ok, so now I’ve done some reading, and I have dusted some of the luster off the academia-business divide. (It’s Friday; I wrote another proposal draft yesterday; I’ll be unpredictable today.) I’m reading Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007″ report. I got it from Socialtext, but I’m not sure how. ...
Read more →This morning, I ventured out into the five inches of fresh snow Ann Arbor received overnight. I love snow, and I was happy to go out. My roommate needed to go to work; I “needed” to justify my ownership of a 4×4. For the most part, Ann Arborites do a good job driving on...
Read more →My research group (Stephanie Teasley, Eric Cook, and Jude Yew) and I are proposing a workshop for the International Conference for the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2008). We’re hoping to get a group of people together to discuss learning as it occurs outside classrooms and other formal and semi-formal instruction environments. I’ve been frustrated with...
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