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10 reasons why Blackboard Learn sucks

By ~LS~ On October 5, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Technology and tagged Tagged With: Educational Technology, Teaching, Work Sucks

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Maslow’s Hierarchy

By ~LS~ On August 24, 2010 · Add Comment · In Humor, Pop Culture, Technology and tagged Tagged With: Facebook, Geek, Geek Cartoons, Silliness, Speech, Teaching

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Beneath the circuits, the tree of life

By ~LS~ On March 31, 2010 · Add Comment · In Random Musings, Technology, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Haraway, Tattoos, Technoculture

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Mix tape obsolescence

By ~LS~ On December 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Media Ecology, Music, Pop Culture, Technoculture

As the decade draws to a close, many commentators are remarking on the demise of various technologies. I am sometimes rueful and sometimes relieved by the disappearance of the technologies, of their associated objects and habits.

Think of letter writing. Often, the only clues to women’s history or insights into the thoughts and emotions of previous generations lie in their letters. Writing letters was a habitus, a way of being and doing. Today, our digital documentation is excessive and often thin and shallow. A constant stream of 140 characters doesn’t seem to me to capture the nuances of a traditional letter. I suppose that 19th century upper-class women writing about their tea service (see Veblen on spoons; there is no spoon?) could be considered shallow too. Both Twitter and high tea are reflections in “taste” in its fullest sense of the [...]

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The Kindle and “Picard’s Syndrome”

By ~LS~ On December 6, 2009 · Add Comment · In Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Books, Droid, Geek, Interface Value, Media Ecology, Tech Toys, Technoculture

Due to my recent tech splurge, I’m now the owner of a brand new Amazon Kindle, acquired just before Thanksgiving. I’m quite happy with it. Reviews all over the net are fairly accurate. I like the weight, the screen’s readability, the size, the forward and backward buttons. I don’t like the five-way toggle button and the lack of lighting to read in the dark. I don’t care about not having a touch screen since I despise fingerprints and smudges in almost OCD proportions. I found a cute Vera Bradley bag that fits the Kindle perfectly. I’m happy. The drawbacks and the politics of DRM management and not actually “owning” the intellectual property found in books have been discussed extensively elsewhere; there’s no point in reiterating them here. What I would like to talk about, however, is the utterly tactile experience of the Kindle.

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Droid Apps

By ~LS~ On December 1, 2009 · Add Comment · In Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Droid, Tech Toys

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