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the long road to darkness

By caleb ⋅ January 27, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The other day, Anne-Marie posted about online craft tutorials and pointed out that they often assume some skill or knowledge on the part of the reader. If not, the reader can search for more tutorials or ask questions in the comments.
I think that one of the things she is suggesting is that information literacy lessons [...]

serious readers

By caleb ⋅ January 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Just a quick post about the Levenger catalog that comes to my house, offering “tools for serious readers”, including pens, notebooks, bookshelves, “reading tools” and books such as a replica (”facsimile”) of the Sarajevo Haggadah.
That is to say, this catalog is not for me. It comes addressed to my father-in-law, who has never lived with [...]

live from #apollo: act 1

By rachel ⋅ January 21, 2009 ⋅ One comment

On Saturday, i participated in Portland Center Stage’s experiment with allowing a limited number of people to blog/post to twitter during a performance of the new play Apollo. i’m still reflecting on the experience but want to write about some aspects of it while it’s fresh in my mind.
Since the play is in 3 acts, [...]

live from #apollo: act 2

By rachel ⋅ January 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Act 2: During
PCS had set the balcony aside for the twitterers and bloggers. i’d been really convinced that all the typing and computer screens around me would be really distracting but i really didn’t notice them. perhaps it’s because in my house there’s almost always a laptop open, almost always some keys being typed, but [...]

live from #apollo: act 3

By rachel ⋅ January 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Act 3: Like now Twitter people
When we went out into the lobby for the first intermission, #apollo was the number one trending term on Twitter. I have to admit, that was a heady feeling. I also found out that i knew a couple of the other twitter people through mutual friends - a fact they [...]

the case of the feted feline

By caleb ⋅ January 11, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

It all started as a winter weekend trip to a Forest Service cabin nestled between Mt. Saint Helens and Mt. Adams. I was looking forward to no electricity, no cell phone service, no people, and carrying all of my food, water and bedding a half mile by snowshoe and sled into what remains of the [...]

copyright driveby

By rachel ⋅ January 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Lots of chatter out there about music licensing costs on 80 year old music basically destroying the commercial prospects of the independent film Sita Sings The Blues. Interesting stuff, it’s always good to have these real-life examples of the deleterious effects of copyright maximalism. This one might be a particularly interesting one to keep [...]

resolved

By rachel ⋅ January 8, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

when we started command-f, i had this unspoken promise to myself that i’d never post anything new until i’d read, pondered, and (ideally) responded to prior posts from anne-marie and caleb. well, consider this a broken promise. i read but haven’t yet pondered caleb’s last couple posts and i haven’t even read anne-marie’s post from [...]

so here, here is some text that looks cool

By anne-marie ⋅ January 7, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

So this is related to Caleb’s last few posts if you squint really hard and look over to the left. Because Caleb wrote about text, among other things, and he wrote about it over my head (but I’m thinking - Rachel and I will catch up!). And I’ve been watching these videos in [...]

post-text information retrieval

By caleb ⋅ January 7, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I’m interested lately in how the internet would work, especially in regards to information retrieval, without text. I’m aware that the computernet is not just about information retrieval - plenty of what goes on has more to do with social interaction (including commerce and all types of communication) than it does looking stuff up.
I have [...]

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