b.rox

Today I moderated a panel discussion titled “Web Logs and Scholarship.” I recorded the audio live, so here’s a slidecast of the entire thing.

Finally created a ROX page on Facebook.

Not sure exactly what to do with it, but if you like the show become a fan and we’ll figure something out together.
Maybe.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered my nursery school photo is being used by Cory Frickin’ Doctorow for an article on Boing Boing.

The subject? Counter-terrorism, natch.

England’s West Midlands counter-terrorism unit is putting nursery schools on notice to check out their four-year-olds to make sure that they’re not being “brainwashed” into “Islamic extremism.”

It should be noted [...]

These are my answers (from about a month ago) to a really dumb chain e-mail which I got from a really close friend. I’m posting this here just for fun but please, if you get the e-mail, don’t propagate it. Invent something better. These questions are really dumb even for a goofy “getting to know [...]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imh/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
I’ve made a few changes to the streaming audio station as I continue the constant pursuit of perfection. Finally came up with a name: radio.rox — blindingly obvious but thanks to Charlotte for prodding me in the right direction. The name suggests the new web address:
radio.rox.com
…which is where you’ll find it.
It [...]

Awrite — I’m taking the plunge and starting my own net radio station. This will be going 24/7 or as long as I can keep it up.
Want to listen? Please be my guest. If you know my “taste” in music (and I do use the word “taste” advisedly) you’ll know what to expect. If not [...]

A photo I took in 2005 was recently used to spur a collaborative writing assignment.

I have no idea where the class was even located. I only found this through Flickr’s referrer logs. The students used EtherPad to collaborate, allowing me to see the final product.
Here are their instructions.

As a group pick one image from [...]

It was some fun watching the Saints dismantle the Patriots last night. And now I’m doing the wave. No, not the audience wave — I’m not that big of a sports fan and I do still have my basic sense of human dignity. I’m talking about Google Wave.

Google describes Wave as “a personal communication and [...]

Some of my neighbors have been bickering, er, I mean debating about Comiskey Park here in Mid-City. The basketball goals that used to be there were taken down when an television production company made plans to rebuild the park for a reality show. That didn’t pan out in the long run, and the park was [...]

Yesterday I presented a workshop which I called “Global Immediacy: Using Video Telephony to Bring Distant Guests into Your Classroom.” It was designed to get faculty thinking about how they might use applications such as Skype in their teaching. I had a little help from George “Loki” Williams of SocialGumbo, we had a good attendance, [...]

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I got a strange e-mail from an old friend today:

I’m sorry for this odd request because it might get to you too urgent but it’s because of the situation of things right now, I’m sorry for this odd request because it might get to you too urgent but it’s because of the situation of things [...]

So what is it I do anyway? Lots of different things. For example: Today I’m leading a faculty workshop on Firefox 3.5, so here’s a mix of awesome cyber-geeky pop tunes.

And here’s sneak peek at the slideshow I’ll be using.

(I’m still working on this so it may be a little unfinished in places.)
I thought this [...]

Does this image of the Ten Commandments ring any bells?

Well, if you know me, it should look vaguely familiar. Those are my teeth. It’s a remix by a Flickr user “zeevveez” in Jerusalem which uses a photo I took of my own teeth just over four years ago:

That’s what I love about Creative Commons, the [...]

I don’t have much use for most of the new features in iTunes 9 (released yesterday) but there’s one thing I like: Apple has added nested AND/OR functionality to smart playlists. Very nice. In fact I’d upgrade for this feature alone.

Occasionally I get a comment so penetrating, so insightful, that it just begs to be given special attention. So herewith I present the penetrating insight of Chris Dillcog:

I was very fortunate to be born and raised in Sevier County and Pigeon Forge and was not as amused at your ramblings as you apparantly are. 1.) [...]

Our toilet is a featured exhibit in the Museum of Unintended Use. Check it out.

“Chigger Bites” has become my first and (only photo) to score over 10,000 views on Flickr.

No need to share your home remedies, by the way. This photo was taken four years ago, so these bites have long since healed up.

I just posted the following suggestion on Get Satisfaction:

When getting a notification that someone’s following me, it would be nice to see how many people have blocked them. The e-mail notification currently includes how many followers they have, how many tweets they’ve posted, and how many people are following them. However, I’m betting a count [...]

It’s official. As of about five minutes ago, “Chigger Bites” has become my most-viewed photo on Flickr, with 8,583 views and counting.

“Chigger Bites” surpasses the former champion, “Drying Her Hair.”

I find that a tad bit surprising.

I used eGroups back in the day. They got bought out by Yahoo in 2000 and became a part of Yahoo Groups, but I know at least one guy who still calls ‘em eGroups.
Sometime thereafter Google got into the game. I believe Google Groups started as a Usenet archive, but they rather quickly deployed a [...]