Category Archives: Technology

Content systems: Joomla! vs. Drupal

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Kevin

Since 1991 I’ve been the list owner / moderator of Milton-L, a discussion list on the life, literature and times of the poet John Milton.  In 1994 I created The Milton-L Home Page as a support site for the discussion … Continue reading →

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Seminars on Academic Computing 2007

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Kevin

I’m in Snowmass Village for the 2007 Seminars on Academic Computing.  It’s my first time at SAC, and, after 33 years, the last time SAC will be held in Snowmass Village. I’m not the type that pays much attention to … Continue reading →

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Transmedia Learning

Posted on July 8, 2007 by Kevin

In Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins spends a chapter describing how the creators of The Matrix engaged storytellers in many different media to tell complimentary parts of the entire Matrix story.  Playing the video games, reading the comic books and watching … Continue reading →

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Social Networking and Network Stress

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Kevin

NetworkWorld has a cover story on the stress that social networking sites like MySpace put on DNS servers.  Pages on MySpace point to content all over the internet, causing browsers to perform dozens, sometimes hundreds of DNS lookups per page.  … Continue reading →

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Firefox to WordPress – Deepest Sender

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Kevin

If you can read this, I’ve got a recommendation for you.  I’m always looking for an easier way for faculty and students to blog.  Blojsom’s interface is difficult for anyone who doesn’t know HTML.  WordPress has a pretty easy interface … Continue reading →

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New Portal to Second Life: Your Phone

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Kevin

This is good, because I was getting worried that I wasn’t logged into Second Life enough. Wade Roush at MIT Technology Review writes that Comverse has developed a Java-based client for cell phones with internet connections. It makes sense. More … Continue reading →

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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Kevin

Boing Boing posted a story recently about  A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.  The chart is fantastic.  While I’m familiar with many of the types of visualizations presented, there are several I haven’t seen before.  I was happy to see … Continue reading →

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My Windows Vista Upgrade: Gone in 60 Seconds

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Kevin

Yesterday Wendy gave me the University’s Windows Vista Enterprise and Office 2007 discs.  I am a member of the University’s Software and Technology Standards group, working specifically on usability and academic issues, and while we’re not planning to upgrade either … Continue reading →

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Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Kevin

C|net posted a story on Friday of a talk that John Seely Brown gave at MIT.  Brown suggests that Universities and employers who want to improve engineering education should consider a Web 2.0 approach to changing the way they teach. … Continue reading →

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Dispatches from Blogistan

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Kevin

Dispatches from Blogistan: A Travel Guide for the Modern Blogger, by Suzanne Stefanac is a good introduction for anyone who is considering a blog.  I found the first chapters of the book to be a well-told history of free speech.  … Continue reading →

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