Night On Town Fails To Rekindle Fading Business Relationship | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
Funny and may help to think about distinctions in relationships. This one is in terms of a business alliance which takes on a romantic connotation.
Technorati tags: humor, social-network, business, relationships
Comedy Central – Media Player
A Daily Show piece (video) on an attempt to sell a tofu-based product to anthropology students. They could have used the "anthropo-" prefix for something else.
Actually, that product has a site too. Ah, well…
Technorati tags: humor, anthropology
Notre Dame Football Announces Improvements To Its Storied History | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
Only lived in South Bend for eight months but these were the most historical five years of my life…
Technorati tags: humor, sports, Notre-Dame, South-Bend, football
O’Reilly Network: The Real Problem with Textbooks: A SafariU Editorial
Some typical tech enthusiasm coupled with a certain dose of self-praise from O’Reilly. As O’Reilly is often perceived quite positively (as a “non-evil” in the tech publishing world), the implied marketing is relatively benign.
Interesting notion about what changes in publishing imply:
A key design principle of this new publishing is remixing–putting together digital content in creative new ways. Remixing is powering new services that are shaking up traditional publishing and distribution.
Of course, other publishers are trying to adopt similar strategies by which iinstructors are able to “build” textbooks by picking and choosing textbook sections (chapters, modules, units) from a publisher’s database. There’s an issue of granularity but it does represent a bit more freedom than being forced to use a monolithic textbook. If the publisher’s collection contains a broad range of material, this can be a solution to some people’s problems with textbooks.
But mix-and-match textbooks address issues of openness only obliquely. The editorial uses iTunes and Google News as examples of remixing. The world is ready for forms of remixing which are more open-ended, like blogs and wikis.
Technorati tags: academia, publishing, textbooks, new-economy, technology
Le réseau sans-fil ouvert/gratuit/libre «Île Sans Fil» se fait une tournée des bars:
Île Sans Fil Montréal – Québec – Canada : PubCrawl2005.
Pas pire! Bière et geekitude. T-shirts pas chers, prix de présence.
En passant, ISF est un des groupes montréalais qui traversent le mieux les «deux solitudes»…
The “Île Sans Fil” Free/Open wireless network in Montreal is having a pubcrawl:
Île Sans Fil Montréal – Québec – Canada : PubCrawl2005.
Pretty cool! Beer and geekness. Cheap t-shirts. Door prizes.
And, BTW, ISF is one of the groups in Montreal where the “two solitudes” are most integrated.
UPDATE: Purchased an iRiver H120 jukebox/recorder.
For instance, on Audio Activism (a podcast about using podcasting and other online methods for political and social engagement) is a blog entry asking Does the new iPod record audio in stero?(sic)
Guess we’re all still wondering. The answer to that question will come soon enough. Well, actually, we know part of the answer but we still don’t know how the iPod can do “voice recordings” at 44.1kHz stereo or what the quality of those recordings might be. And let’s really hope that this feature isn’t crippled.
Technorati Tags: field-research, ipod, podcasting, recording
Internet Archive: Details: Day In The Death Of Donny B.
Now, this is one good reason to keep archives. This one was linked from a Dailysonic episode on soundtracks from the 1970s. This one is a short anti-drug docudrama from 1969. Quite powerful. Non-moralistic, rather realistic, non-sensationalist, social… The soundtrack is haunting, the images are quite strong without being drawn out too far. As Dailysonic’s Adam Varga was saying, such a movie couldn’t be made nowadays.
Technorati tags: movie, drugs, soundtrack, archives, 1969
Started yet another blog, this time on Opera.com (a “community” site based on the Opera browser, which is now free).
It’s a rather limited blogging solution but it does allow for importing from Blogger so it’s now populated with entries from here.
So the list now includes, as personal blogs:
As well as the academic blog on Thinking Globalization Through Music.
Fun!
Is it too much? Well, yes. But it’s mostly about testing features. Eventually, all of the personal blogs among these could/should be merged into one reliable blogging interface.
Thought about creating a blog for some courses I’m teaching or will be teaching. This one will be (at least initially) for an ethnomusicology course to be taught at Concordia University (in Montreal) during Winter semester 2006.