Monday, February 14, 2005

Jake wrote Dreamland about Hilary Rosen's Wired article (the one about loving Larry now). 12:42:12 PM    comment []

David Bollier's blog: Honoring Socially Created Value 9:26:58 AM    comment []

Team Party Crash: Pundits on Parade 9:26:01 AM    comment []

Defining successful user experience. Defining successful user experience: Jason Kottke (whose weblog, kottke.org, in my opinion, is the benchmark for weblog design) has follow-up news on an observation he made last week that Google has switched from dictionary.com to answers.com for their "definition" links. He wondered then if the decision was a business deal. Turns out, Google switched because answers.com doesn't have pop-up ads -- making for a better user experience. Which reminds me, the most incredible web-based user-experience dictionary I've ever seen is the ObjectGraph dictionary. [rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog] 9:25:20 AM    comment []

U.S. Drones Checking on Iran. Surveillance drones are being flown over Iran by the United States, according to a report by The Washington Post. UFO sightings flood in, but U.S.-trained Iranian military officers say they recognize the tactics. [Wired News] 9:15:51 AM    comment []

New Web Site for Academics Roils Education Journalism. A new online publication, insidehighered.com, hopes to become the first significant competition in higher education publishing since Lingua Franca folded in 2001. By LIA MILLER. [NYT > Education] http://www.insidehighered.com/ features today: Intellectual Affairs On the centennial of Ayn Rand's birth, Scott McLemee takes a look at an author neither quite accepted in academe nor completely outside it. more Bloggers in the Flesh Six academic bloggers at the MLA gather to ponder the significance of their texts and their media. more The Truth About Pell Grants The Stealth Curriculum Against Syllabi The Chronicles of Dr. Crazy wonders when students are going to start treating her "less like a girl and more like a professor." On The Blogora, a proposal for the ideal rhetoric curriculum.... Valentine's Day Help From Poetry Professors  And that last compels me to note: Happy Sts. Cyril and Methodius Day! (It appears I haven't made that remark here, though I did annualy at t'other blog.) Why Cyril and Methodius? Because Feb. 14 is their day! 9:15:35 AM    comment []

Pew: "11% of all American adults own iPods or MP3 players -- that's more than 22 million people." [Scripting News] 9:07:58 AM    comment []