On the Other Hand

June 5, 2008

Transcription can be found in the comments. You can click on the image below to make it bigger (and slightly more readable).
(Why in the comments? Are you reflexively reading my typed text first? For many they do.)(Normal typewritten posts will be returning shortly.)

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Post Mortem on a Handwritten Post

June 5, 2008

Follow up on my previous handwritten post.Also, I can add, after transcribing the first post, editing is much easier in the digital form, and length seems more apparent when measured in pages.

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Untitled Handwritten Post

June 5, 2008

Ok, Eric started this meme, and PurpleCar got me thinking, so it is time for me to join in.
What is this meme? Well since I can’t just link it here I’ll tell you. Write a blog post. No, not type, write. And now you can see my fine hand
So [...]

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New Media Conference in Colorado

May 16, 2008

In a number of posts before I have talked about the plans for a Podcamp Colorado. These plans have morphed and grown to the point where we realized that we were really creating a New Media Conference and associated Film Festival and should call it like it is.
That said, this November, November [...]

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World of Warcraft Academic Conference

May 16, 2008

This past weekend there was an academic conference in World of Warcraft. When I first heard about the conference I was intrigued by the concept. The topic of the use of virtual worlds for research was intriguing, but even more so I was intrigued as to how the conference would work
As many [...]

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Technology and Travel

May 14, 2008

While I haven’t traveled that often as of late, I have traveled quite a bit throughout my life. As a child I traveled to Europe and about 15 years ago I traveled frequently for work. However, back then travel and personal technology were not so closely linked. As a child I’d get puzzle books [...]

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Twitter, The Sichuan Quake, and Emergency Response

May 13, 2008

Eric Rice started a thread of discussion on The Sichuan Quake and the Hubris of Twitter Users on his friendfeed. I had more than 255 characters worth of though (or whatever the comment character limit is), so I thought I would blog about it here.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
For those not on twitter or not following the twitter/earthquake discussion, [...]

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Found Writings

April 28, 2008

This past week was Passover, and included in that time was a lot of offline time. The offline time provided quite a bit of time for reflecting on things, but it also provided time to look at what I had on the bookshelves. In addition to many good books I had a wonderful find [...]

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Bedika Chometz

April 18, 2008

Last night was when we performed bedika chometz. It is a ritual where we hide 10 bundles of bread (well wrapped) and then search the house for any chometz (including the 10 pieces we just found.) The search is done by candle light after dark in preparation for Passover.
Passover is a holiday [...]

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Video Photos and Fun

April 11, 2008

It is fun watching as video evolves on the net and how many different ways video can be served up.
The latest in that genre is “A movie is a moving photo” – the 90 second videos on Flickr. There are quite a few folks playing with that and I’m having fun with that [...]

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