Tag: Twitter
Technology Tuesdays: The Promise/Failure of Social Media: Voyeurism isn’t Community
I’ve believed in the potential of online communities since logging onto my first BBS in the late...
Video Fridays: An Introduction to Mastodon with Professor Jeff Jarvis
I hadn’t planned it this way, but apparently today is the day that the Elon-verse removed the...
Pot Calling out The Kettle: tRumpf and Amazon
The guy who bragged that not paying taxes was “smart” attacks Amazon for not paying their fair...
Daily Random Sh*t: Hurt Him Where He’s Most Vulnerable #BlockTrump
In the end, one powerful way to deal with a bully is to shut down his ability to get under your...
Fan Shaming Be Damned
Daily Random Shit for 2016-04-01: Fan Shaming Be Damned A female friend posted this article, saying that most of her male friends aren’t even into sports… That popped a balloon for me… My response:...
Blame Fail
Daily Random Sh*t for 2016-03-24 The stupid hurts. I think I’ll confront a random Catholic about the inquisition, a random German about World War II, a random Afrikaans about Apartheid, a random Japanese person about the...
Presidential Compassion & The Story We Tell Ourselves
Daily Random Shit for 2016-02-07: Presidential Compassion & The Story We Tell OurselvesI’ve seen this photo in my Facebook feed over the years, posted as example of how George W was a much more compassionate man than...
Curt Schilling & Whether to Fight with Internet Trolls
I felt prompted to post the following comment on the website of one of my favorite daily podcasts, The Morning Stream (episode 777), after the hosts discussed the controversy after friend of the show, Curt Schilling, took a hard...
Where Do You Get Your News?
Hey Online Friends, I’m doing an informal survey about where we’re getting our news these...
Video Mondays: FOMO – A Social Networking Horror Story
So what happens when our access to social networks only brings home how disconnected some of us...
Too Much Information: A More Productive Model than Getting Info via the Fire-hose that is RSS
It may just be nostalgia, but when I think about how I stay informed I always go back to memories...
The Threat the Internet Represents to What We Value in Life
Back from California, I had a great brief visit with family after a wonderful return to Macworld....
There are more of us out there than you think
I just had a chat with Karl Peterson, current month 12 student, he called to share that he’d met a professor, Jim Groom, at the University of Mary Washington who’s doing a course on Digital Storytelling as an...
freedom to screw up required if one wants perfection: emdt students reflect on blogging
An open letter to my emdt co-workers, co-conspirators & creativity enablers, On one level or another I’ve been teaching communication and writing since I took my first teaching assignment 15-years ago. One thing that I...
Twitter in Education?
One of my students recently read an article in the New York Times about how Twitter was killing the art of real conversation because twitter-ers were breaking the first rule of conversation by not really listening and only...
Little Black Spot on the Sun Today
ISS Endeavor My favorite crazy photo of the past week is by French photographer Thierry Legault,...
