Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
The name of the band is subject to argument, but like those Brits in 1970 rocking atop a roof, at the Domains 2017 Conference something happened atop a rooftop in Oklahoma City. And then after the conference, weirder stuff happened — people went home and fired up good old fashioned blog posts. Just like it […]
At a session today on “Deep Learning” at the ASCUE17 conference Steve Kenode lauded the merits of advanced machine learning, like Deep Mind‘s “learning” the best way to play Breakout I did appreciate the schematic way he explained it for a lay audience (including me) with the way weights are assigned to relationships; I’m a […]
Many people (not here) see blogging as a thing of the past; most of the regular ones I was reading back in the early to mid 2000s have fallen silent or just vanished. Insert whatever theory you have. This one keeps going, no let up since it’s start in 2003. Here is but one small […]
I said it many times Monday and Tuesday of this week that the Domains 2017 in Oklahoma City was not a conference but a gathering. Does that matter? You had to be there. This is a vain attempt to blog summarize and will fail miserably in capturing the experience. But I am, at this moment, […]
I am so old I remember both doing this and recommending it in the Ordovician era of the web- putting my email address at the bottom of every web page. Ha ha, fool. But there was no harvesting and selling of emails for purposes of sending unwanted marketing spam. Once the internet altered to become […]
My rand ambitions are some regular blogging about some behind the scenes things Mia Zamora and I did for the recently ended paused Networked Narratives class we taught. The cursed fog of time is descending. SLOW DOWN time, willya? Mia suggested the idea of doing contract grading ( prefer Miriam Posner’s writeup/example) with our students, […]
As much as I loathe those blog posts or click bait pieces about digital detox or sanctimonious drivel about giving up an iphone for a few weeks I’m letting it be known (as if it matters) that I’m going non-active online for maybe 4 days. The only, only, only reason I bother is that a […]
Have you had any success explaining what Creative Commons is to people completely outside of our field or for that matter outside the range of people who work online? My attempts veer into vague generalities about alternatives to copyright that allow creators to share— (insert eye glaze over). This is not necessarily problematic but more […]
This is sad news to share. Last night my good friend Brian Lamb’s dad passed away following un-expected complications from a surgery. I asked he and his family if this news was okay to share, as they are in the midst of those grim logistics of funeral arrangements. If you know Brian, you know his […]
In March the Networked Narratives virtual bus stopped at the Young Writers Project and I was more than blown away by the depth of writing of the 10th grade students we talked to. I reached back into my box of memories (bless you Mom, you saved almost everything I brought home from school) and found […]
