Collaboration in Action!

I did a pretty good job of wallowing in misery in that last post, didn’t I? Let’s just say that developing functional literacy ain’t easy. Shall I even mention the fact that I’m incredibly behind on my coding? No! Because I have something...

A Humbling Weekend

Most digital natives have likely had an experience like I had this weekend: helping mom with the computer. I’m not sure why she entrusts me with this task. I probably don’t know that much more than she does (though, of course, I have to adopt the bravado...

So What?

Around essay-grading time, there’s a beast that rears its ugly head. This beast goes by the terrifying name of: “So what?” The “so what?” beast is a simple creature, certainly not a many-headed hydra or a serpentine monster. Yet the beast...

Offline File Sharing?

This is more of an artistic statement than anything else, but I love the idea of transplating USB ports into places “offline.’ The vision behind this project – dubbed Dead Drops – is perhaps a touch anarchistic. After all, it seems as though...

Dear Diary

I have always been somewhat of a sporadic “diary writer.” Family and friends used to gift me with blank notebooks when they learned that I enjoyed writing, yet I would only write a few entries here and there in each new blank book I received. For whatever...

In Solidarity with SOPA

http://sopastrike.com/ As I hope you’ve noticed at this point, many of your favorite websites are blacked out today: Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, Mozilla, and even WordPress among others. I don’t have much to add to the discussion other than my own concerns...