Enthusing about how other people share their notes. | Continue reading
_Infomocracy_, Idaho Fire newsletter, weeknotes, consensus, cycling, and words I learned. | Continue reading
_Easy A_, electoral politics, ethicswishing, etc. | Continue reading
Easy A, electoral politics, ethicswishing, etc. | Continue reading
Extraordinary Birder, Hyperlocal Psychogeography, and External Link Indicators. | Continue reading
Extraordinary Birder, Hyperlocal Psychogeography, and External Link Indicators. | Continue reading
A few movies, a few links; a pleasant little week. | Continue reading
A few movies, a few links; a pleasant little week. | Continue reading
Postrolls and Posthumans. Plus some other things. | Continue reading
Postrolls and Posthumans. Plus some other things. | Continue reading
Betty, Turkeys, Discovery, Tags, and Categories. Also, I'm back on my BookWyrm again! | Continue reading
Betty, Turkeys, Discovery, Tags, and Categories. Also, I'm back on my BookWyrm again! | Continue reading
Some of what I'm doing as of June 2024. | Continue reading
Some of what I'm doing as of June 2024. | Continue reading
I was honored to participate in this panel, plus create the linked bibliography of related resources. | Continue reading
I was honored to participate in this panel, plus create the linked bibliography of related resources. | Continue reading
Toward a definition of 'knowing' that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call 'cosmospolitanism,' while we're at it. | Continue reading
Toward a definition of 'knowing' that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call 'cosmospolitanism,' while we're at it. | Continue reading
Some of what I'm doing, as of 2024-03-19. | Continue reading
Some of what I'm doing, as of 2024-03-19. | Continue reading
Weekly Whaaa…? Mention of the Week Amy Minervini, an English professor at Lewis and Clark State College, recently published an open textbook called Music in Your Own Words. It’s a “music-inspired composition guide” for first-year English writing courses, and it looks fantastic. S … | Continue reading
Groundhog’s Day I’ve long appreciated Sri Seah’s posts on Groundhog Day Resolutions—and I felt a little lightbulb sympathetically illuminate in my mind when Rua Williams discussed their idea of a “Fractal Scaffold” during the Neurodivergent Writing Guide session. Patterns—especia … | Continue reading
Clock Rhythm by Acid Jeep distills a distinct flavor of “let’s rock some tough electro, but make the synths squigglier” bounce. Warmly overdriven but not harshly distorted. Intense but not claustrophobic. Driving but not frenetic. Clock Rhythm keeps the balance right—and surprisi … | Continue reading
Weekly Whaaa…? Poem of the Week Sorry, Carl Sandburg. This fog clearly strode in on bison's hooves. It's not looking aloof over river, city, roofs. These are all the fog's now, until it gets bored. It was profoundly foggy on Tuesday morning, and this echo sprung into my mind … | Continue reading
Weekly Whaaa…? Sound of the Week Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip… That’s thankfully not the sound of the tap or our kitchen sink, but instead the snow melting everywhere in Boise this weekend. I measured at least 8 inches / 20.3 centimeters on the ground, and that was after an overn … | Continue reading
Weekly Whaaa…? Don’t Call It a Comeback, RSS Feeds Have Been Here For Years Although I’ve been using RSS readers since well before Google Reader joined the many other projects (often mercilessly and pointlessly) killed by Google, NetNewsWire has become a much more prominent part … | Continue reading
As I was just doing some small refinements on my website related to accessibility, consistency, and… well… typos, I happened to read this on Mastodon from Vic Kostrzewski: Indeed, today is the anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s death. It’s remarkable how many of my activities today—e … | Continue reading
Weekly Whaaa…? AI and Teaching College Writing I profoundly appreciated this week’s Future Trends Forum on AI and Teaching College Writing, featuring Daniel Ernst and Troy Hicks. These English professors not only summarized their March 2023 survey of college writing faculty, but … | Continue reading
You might think of this as a Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Weeks 51 & 52. You’re also very welcome to hear Pearl Jam’s “rearviewmirror” in your head as you read this. Weekly Whaaa…? Instructional Design This was my first full calendar year working as an instructional designer, rathe … | Continue reading
Thankfully, many people have written useful guides to getting started with the community-run social media network called Mastodon. Instead of writing up my own, I’m curating a short list of the most useful ones I find over at my Mastodon starting points note. Most of these guides … | Continue reading