Silencing the stakeholders

15.08.09

One way to make clear the power of social media is to identify the thing that is broken without it. Clay Shirky, I'm guessing, might speak about creating the opportunity to coordinate a group that can't easily act in concert, or to call to the microphone a group that usually can't speak on its own behalf. I noticed in a 5/11 letter to the NY Times from Celina Su a classic circumstance where a group...

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Formalist challenge of Twitter

12.01.09

Now I find I'm approaching Twitter like a formalist poet who likes to have the imagination provoked by the restrictions of a given form. You only get 17 syllables, or the next line must rhyme, or there must be a recognizable rhythm, etc. As you face the restriction, you see novel solutions, things you wouldn't have said, or said that way, otherwise. Two tries: Quoted: "People congratulated me when my son was born, but I worried even then. He will be drafted in 8 years....

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Moving day

01.11.09

It's official, I guess. I'm moving on over to a little more modern blogging software. The new site is: akaKenSmith.com (...also known as...) pMachine, you've been a gem.

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What students love

15.08.09

The book group had been meeting every other Tuesday for several weeks, and many good ideas about the campus came up for discussion along the way. But I sat up and took note when a colleague said this: Students love it when faculty 'own up' to not knowing something. (R. duC) I connected this sentence immediately to another thought I had been carrying around for a few weeks, something spoken by a teacher to a group of students: I don't know how you will...

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