To Seed Magazine
World English(es)
General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By aeland
Your article on the widespread rise of authorship is very interesting, as is the data you present regarding publishing across the centuries. Unarguably, it is amazing to realize the impact that the internet and social networking sites have on the transfer of...
Two Hundred Percent of Population Reads One Hundre...
World English(es)
General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By depeters
If this argument holds water, it holds it from its own contorted definition of publishing. As scholars, we know publication to be something much more active than simply a basic readership of a hundred people. Maybe - and just maybe - everyone will...
Racial Disparity: All active ethics probes focus o...
Crisis!
General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By lkmurph3
The House ethics committee (OCE) is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice...
To: Seed Magazine
World English(es)
General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By anfaber
While your article presents an interesting concept, I must say that, in my opinion, your predictions are simply NOT going to happen, at least in the time span that you are proposing. "Everyone" in the world publishing by 2013? ...
Blog Response: Seed Magazine
World English(es)
General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By jdlomeli
Professors,
I hate to break it to you, but I believe there is a slim chance that your predictions will prove to be correct. You hypothesize that every person will publish by the year 2013. One-hundred percent participation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but...
Edge of the World
Jake Goldbas
General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By jrgoldba
Maybe one of the most fun parts of the College experience is this one: finishing. Everyone knows this, to some extent. There's this event that occurs like sky diving or bungee-jumping. We College seniors fall off of the Edge of the...
To the Writers at Seed Magazine
World English(es)
General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By swatson
Undoubtedly, the world has witnessed a huge increase in authorship. As technology becomes more advanced, people are more equipped with the ability to communicate. It wasn't even 30 years ago that cell phones were basically nonexistent. Now,...
Another Health Care Victory and the Same Old from ...
First Politics, Then Life
General | Sunday November 22, 2009 | By mgbaker
Congratulations to the sixty Democratic Senators who voted to allow the
health care debate to continue last night. Each Democrat, with no
Republican support, voted aye for the bill, including some of the
staunch centrists who threatened to filibuster weeks...
21st Century Skills and Cheese Steaks
21st Century as I See It
General | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By mpcook
As I write this, I am in Philadelphia at the NCTE National Convention. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it is the National Council of Teachers of English and is the largest professional organization for English teachers in the country. Relax,...
Project 3: Card suits and numbers
CSC 216 Online
Information | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By jep
When we created Card class, we used the following numbering scheme for suits: 0 = clubs, 1 = diamonds, 2 = hearts, 3 = spades
GIS, GPS and Google Earth
21stCenturyTechnology
General | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By trbounds
According to Broda and Baxter in Using GIS and GPS Technology as an Instructional Tool , GIS or Geographic Information Systems will allow you to store, retrieve, manipulate and display geographic data. In a GIS, the data can be “layered” allowing...
The Whitehouse Response Strategies to Fort Hood Cr...
Crisis!
General | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By cwu6
It has been two weeks after the Fort Hood tragedy which costs the life of 13 people. Such crisis is extremely salient given the general social, political fact that (1) President Obama is expected to make a long-awaited announcement on his Afghan war strategy...
My Favorite Quotes and Proverbs
SHRENIK SHAH
quotations | General | Saturday November 21, 2009 | By ssshah5
"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened." "O ur
greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in
rising every time we fall." " When
...
Totally unrelated posts
Fully Myelinated
General | Friday November 20, 2009 | By shgreene
For some reason, I feel like combining the following: 1) From Matt Yglesias , a nice graph showing how the Murder rate in the US is much higher than most comparable nations:
He's got a nice explanation for Finland, "What's up with Finland? I...
Le Debonnaire Launch into the Japanese Market
World English(es)
General | Friday November 20, 2009 | By menovak
To: Bell and Hawkland, Inc
From: CONTACT _Con-3CD6DBDB1 \c \s \l Margaux Novak
Subject: Le Debonnaire Marketing Strategy
First, we would like to compliment
you on the success your product has been met in the...
Silva et al REVISED
COM547: Mobile Technologies
Maurice Mathis | Friday November 20, 2009 | By mamathi2
This article (Silva et al) is a qualitative study examining the appropriation and social uses of the cell phone in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro. My first reaction to the article was the "unofficial" recognition of people in the...
Places on Campus Profile 1: The Special Collectio...
Jake Goldbas
General | Friday November 20, 2009 | By jrgoldba
I've already written a little bit about the DH Hill library, which according to a rogue statistic (I can't tell you where I got it, but it's probably somewhere posted in Public records) has seen a 40% increase in students coming here in the last year. ...
Jake's Goings on About Campus for this Weekend
Jake Goldbas
General | Friday November 20, 2009 | By jrgoldba
Windhover Poetry Slam is on Sunday November 22 7:00 at Caldwell Hall Lounge Hillel Thanksgiving is Tomorrow night Friday November 20 at 7:00PM bring a dish
So that's why we shouldn't pollute...
Blithering Blithely
General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By tfallis2
According to a series of new studies recently released, air pollutants such as carbon, particulate matter, and ozone can cause drops in ability to process and learn new vocabulary, reaction time, and even overall intelligence. The study suggests 5 year...
Continuing on moon rovers
Blithering Blithely
General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By tfallis2
To everybody anxiously awaiting my next blog installment: Remember a previous post about the Spirit rover becoming mired down in some soft soil on Mars? Well, apparently NASA read my previous post and found it apt to respond by trying to remove the...
WWWW Part III (No, this lame series will never end...
Blithering Blithely
General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By tfallis2
One popular area of scientific research recently has been working on making technologies compatible with the human body. My latest blog entry, and an interesting example of this phenomenon, are biodegradable transistors. As a student of electronics...
Final Project
My Blog ...
General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By rmlundin
Wow ... have we learned a lot! For my final project I created an example classroom website. (http://finalproject509.shutterfly.com/) I had a lot of fun learning how to create a website and working out the many many kinks that came with this...
Inner City Farms?
Will's blog on STS 302h
General | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By wmlaundo
Recently there was an article in the Scientific American talking about a possible radical change in how the world does agriculture. As population continues to grow, the world is going to need more food and more farmland. Unfortunately there isn't enough arable...
Are Republicans really this nuts?
Fully Myelinated
Politics | Thursday November 19, 2009 | By shgreene
Via TPM : The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D)
has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base:
Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election
-- instead, ACORN stole it... The poll asked this...