Tag: books
Video Fridays: How the digital revolution is killing books | Out of Print: More Here Than Dead Tree Media
This 2013 documentary popped up in my feeds and I find that there’s something quaint about the...
Reminder For Those Shopping From Home
Hope y’all are enjoying Black Friday from the comfort of your home. Just a reminder for...
Helpin’ a Brother Out
monopoly Recent events have reminded me of the John Lennon quote, “Life is what happens...
Know Your Tech History – Steve Jobs Biography
I have been working my way through the Steve Jobs biography the past week and I’ve been a...
The Modern Printing Press: From Manuscript to Dead-Tree Edition!
Just in case you have forgotten how hard it was to make a book in the modern printing press era....
iPad’s Achilles Heel: Moving Media Companies to the Current Century
It’s something that the computer geeks don’t get. It’s part of why Microsoft’s efforts to promote Tablet PCs for the past ten years has completely failed. It’s not about the hardware or the feature...
In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God – Not What You Think
I just finished read/listening to Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God, and like waking with...
Gotta Keep Reading Video on Oprah’s Show Today
Got an unusual email from the boss, Dr. Ludgate, this morning saying that she wasn’t going...
Art of Possibility Reflection: Unexpected Directions & Unanticipated Destinations
I just finished updating the reading part of my course and I somehow ended up telling my own story of Possibility. At this point in the course my students have read the first nine chapters of the Art of Possibility and are...
Grading Rants for a Monday – Inspired by the Art of Possibility
One of the books that I use for my course is the inspirational The Art of Possibility and in one of the opening chapters the authors, Ben & Roz Zander, propose getting rid of grades. This usually invokes strong pros and cons...
Intellectualism and conservative religion
Is there a fundamental conflict for someone to be an intellectual and a believer in conservative...
Broke Bookends
Remember how impressed I was last time when I was using online research tools? Yeah, in the meantime I’ve run headlong into a less than amazing experience. I went so far as to pay for the upgrade of my copy of Bookends,...
Zotero & RefWorks: Damn Web-Based Apps that Work
I’ve been going at it all day, one tutorial after another, pausing to answer student queries...
Reading Redesigned Continues: Kindle2 & Big Rocks from the Sky
Amazon’s Kindle 2 has begun arriving in happy gadget freak’s homes this week. Announced on February 9th by Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, the Kindle 2 is reported to have cleaned up some of the style-points that...
Zander Reflections Part 3
Sometimes the reflections on the Zander book, The Art of Possibility, are much more…...
Zander Reflections Part 2
My students continue their reflections on the Zander book, The Art of Possibility. This time the musing is about the possible ramifications of the realization that “Reality” is not what we thought it was: I try not...
