Archive for August, 2008

looks like the spammers are picking things up a bit – they’re bypassing mollom like it’s not even there, and are skirting akismet too. Fun… »

I took the text of Obama’s speech from the 2008 DNC and fed it through Wordle.net to generate a word cloud to visualize common words. It’ll be interesting to compare with McCain’s speech next week… »

I spent the last 2 months trying to get my password retrieved from rccl.com so I can pay for the remainder owing on our family vacation. They kept saying they couldn’t do it, because I was telling them a different email address than what they had on file. On my last email, I suggested... »

Merlin Mann wrote a great post called “Social Networks: The Case for a Social Network Pause Button“, where he suggests we need a few more states of engagement with social network applications as a way to manage the deluge of data. I’ve got a better solution. Walk away. Do something else. Here’s my social network... »

I was going to write up a post describing how to use the cool FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress to syndicate external content into a blog, and republish it in the context of a class or group. But, of course, Jim Groom has beaten me to the punch, and done a much more thorough job... »

My copy of Postman and Weingartner’s Teaching as a Subversive Activity was delivered in the mail today, thanks to the speedy Amazon.com shipping system. It’s got a fresh, blank Page 61 and I’m looking forward to having it filled up. I also picked up a copy of Technopoly. I decided to not go ahead... »

I just upgraded to wp-mollom 0.6.0 and it has a bunch of additions and fixes. If anyone has problems with it, please let me know asap. »

I’ve been wracking my brain trying to find where I heard a specific sentence about peace and peacefulness. I’m pretty sure it was triggered by this lost interview with John Lennon, although the exact quote isn’t in it. Either way, it’s a very powerful presentation of a student’s illicit interview with Lennon in 1969. »

If you want peace, you must first be peaceful. - unknown this sentence has been rolling through my mind nonstop like a mantra for the last few days. I forget where I heard it – I’m sure it was in a TED talk, or other online video. Google searches haven’t turned up anything. It really doesn’t... »

In my last post, I wrote about page 61 in Teaching as a Subversive Activity – where Postman and Weingartner asked the readers to contribute their questions to help shape an inquiry-based education, in response to their initial question “What is worth knowing?” And now, I’m wondering… If you’re reading this… What is worth knowing to... »