Tellio: Reflections of A Mid-Career Teacher: November 09, 2008

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-15

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@willrich45 I use the firefox extension Morning Coffee to automagixally bring up Pandora first thing in the morning at boot up. #

"No, the opportunity is not to create the next great website for modeling bottom-up community activity,but to go and actually do the stuff." #

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Let me make another metaphor: you have a hundred people playing Russian roulette, and one of them killed themselves, and ..http://lin.cr/a7p #

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Listening to the sweet drizzle of rain in a sugary patter on my roof. #

@chrislehmann still looking for laptops for family? Try this BlackFriday Page: http://lin.cr/a85 #

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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/16/2008

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb - TIME

So do you feel vindicated by this current crisis?I feel angry. Very, very angry. I described the way it happened, I described the mistakes, and I see all these people explaining it backwards. Let me make another metaphor: you have a hundred people playing Russian roulette, and one of them killed themselves, and economists are theorizing that he killed himself because he held the gun in a certain way. You require something vastly more structural. Let's go back to roots. Let's do real things. Let's have more transparency, fewer complicated products we don't understand. Let's generate economic growth by old traditional ways, let's favor technology companies, let's not favor all this financial bulls---. Because it was a Ponzi scheme, I don't know any other way to call it.

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Evolution not as random as thought | Blogs about Broadband, Technology, Telecoms and the Internet

Evolution not as random as thought | Blogs about Broadband, Technology, Telecoms and the Internet

WKU professor Charles Smith

25 Ways to Build Your Community | chrisbrogan.com

25 Ways to Build Your Community 1. Read at least 100 blogs regularly. Not every post, but a variety. Extra hint: go OUTSIDE your particular passion circle. 2. Write brief, tight, actionable posts that people want to reference later. 3. Don’t ignore the value of linkbait and viral content. Don’t ALWAYS do that, but hey, it can work. 4. Give people your best. I know that sounds trite, but I’m saying don’t charge for the best and give away your crap. That’s a yard sale. Be Tiffany & Co. 5. When you write about people, use LINKS to connect your writing to them. This encourages good neighbor policies. 6. Write great titles that draw people in. (Brian Clark is the master.) 7. Keep lists of blog topics handy for when you feel down. 8. Learn how to write more than one post a day, and put the others in your blogging platform for rainy days (or when you’re busy). This saves my butt TONS of times. (I have a day job, you know.) 9. Promote other people’s work 12 times as much as you promote your own. This comes back as great karma, plus it shows people you recognize that other people are brilliant, not just you. 10. Comment the HELL out of other people’s blogs. Not fishing for your blog. Just adding your voice to theirs. 11. Get regular or irregular opportunities to guest blog. Years ago, I was blogging for Leon Ho at LifeHack.org. That got me plenty more friends than I had before. 12. “Claim” your blog with Technorati 13. List your blog in Dmoz.org, Yahoo, Google, etc. 14. Make subscribing easy. I use FeedBurner to do that. I also use easy to find buttons. I also ASK people to subscribe in about 5 different ways. 15. Build outposts. 16. Use Twitter effectively. 17. Use plug-ins like ShareThis and AddThis that add little “share” buttons after your posts. 18. Occasionally, when it’s a really good post, stumble yourself or bookmark it in Delicious. (Then go stumble 10 or 12 other people’s good work to absolve your sin.) 19. Go to meetups, conferences, and all types of live events. The more that people know you and can put your face to your work, the more they are likely to promote your work (and you theirs). Yes, this takes time, but you asked how I did it. That’s also how. 20. Make the occasional video or audio post so that people start to connect you the human to you the blogger. This works to “humanize” your efforts, and this is vital to what I think has made me successful. 21. Don’t be snarky. There are precious few who do it well. And plenty who do it poorly. Yes, it seems to help grow traffic, but I’m not going to advocate for it. Sorry. 22. Thank people endlessly. Be so full of humility and thanks and gracious awe at the fact that people share time with you (while not being one of those put-down artists) that your work comes off as perpetually fresh and energized and useful. 23. Be helpful. Have you ever heard that from me? Be helpful. Be helpful. The more you do for others, the more they want to point it out. 24. Keep your eyes on the STRATEGY of what you’re doing. Otherwise, there are tons of ways to fall into rabbit holes. 25. Encourage participation. Make your blog about other people, not you. Share and encourage and ask questions. Give your stage to your guest performers. Make it ALL a partnership with your community.

25 Ways to Build Your Community | chrisbrogan.com

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-14

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I m presenting at the doc house. #

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-13

Collapsing on sofa. What a day! #

@alesspho Like your twitter photo #

my Twitterank is 15.69! http://ping.fm/fNJpl #

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I take my waking slow... #

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Zotero Group at Diigo 11/14/2008

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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/14/2008

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Science That Matters

he experiment was stunning in its simplicity. A group of teachers at a low-income South San Francisco elementary school were asked to begin the year by administering the “Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition” to their students. The results were processed and the teachers were given back a list of students whose intellectual abilities were expected to “bloom” that year. At the end of the school year the test was administered again and, sure enough, the bloomers were found to have bloomed, surpassing the other students. But there was just one catch: the test was actually a simple IQ test and the “bloomers” were actually chosen randomly.

The result was called the “Pygmalion effect”: teachers who expected their students to do better actually caused their students to do better. It was a classic self-fulfilling prophecy. The study (published as Pygmalion in the Classroom) was widely hailed. It made the front page of the Times, The Today Show, the New Yorker, and Time, among others. Teacher workshops in avoiding the effect spread from Puerto Rico to Saudi Arabia. LA banned IQ tests in its elementary schools. Presidents, textbooks, and Wikipedia articles repeat the notions to this day, over 30 years later.

Except none of it was true. (emphasis mine)

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FreeRinger, the Easiest Way to Make Free Long Distance and International Calls from Your Computer - MarketWatch

FreeRinger, the Easiest Way to Make Free Long Distance and International Calls from Your Computer - MarketWatch

LOS ANGELES, Oct 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GTalk2VoIP, the free and publicly open voice gateway for major Instant Messenger clients, today announced the availability of the ultra-simple to use FreeRinger, powered by Talkster. FreeRinger, available at www.freeringer.biz, is a web-based telephone service that lets anyone, anywhere in the world place free international calls from PC-to-phone to more than 35 countries.

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Harper's Index

Harpers180.gifHarper's IndexHarpers Magazine 11/5/2008Estimated value of U.S. economic growth lost due to the global credit crisis : $2,000,000,000,000 (see page 35)Portion of U.S. subprime mortgage buyers since 2003 who might have qualified for a prime mortgage : 3/5Number of times that speakers at the Republican National Convention said the word "economy" : 31Number of times they referred to President Bush by name : 1Minimum number of reporters who traveled to Wasilla, Alaska, in the two weeks following Sarah Palin's selection as VP : 90Estimated number of votes that Oprah Winfrey's endorsement swung to Barack Obama's primary campaign : 1,015,559Amount that corporate donors to both conventions have spent lobbying Congress since 2005 : $1,316,151,129Minimum amount the U.S. government has paid contractors in the Middle East since 2003 : $8,200,000,000Total value of federal small-business contracts obtained by Blackwater between 2005 and 2007 : $110,000,000Percentage of former terrorist groups worldwide that stopped operating because of military force used against them : 7Percentage that stopped because they had achieved their stated goals : 10Percentage of Afghans who say they would support a coalition government that included the Taliban : 54Chances that an Israeli Arab says he or she would rather live in Israel than anywhere else : 3 in 4Average number of religions practiced in each world nation : 32Estimated number in Papua New Guinea, which has the most : 648Percentage of U.S. doctors who think God has the power to cure a fatally injured patient : 20Chance that a U.S. conservative today believes church leaders should be involved in politics : 1 in 2Chances in 2004 : 7 in 10Percentage of Americans in 2006 who were "not at all" confident that President Bush had won reelection "fair and square" : 32Minimum number of Brazilians running for political office this year under the name "Obama" : 5Date on which the U.S. must leave its only South American military installation, by order of Ecuador, its host : 11/12/09Date on which Playgirl magazine will become an online-only publication : 11/18/08Amount that Paris Hilton's parents have donated to John McCain's campaign : $4,600Amount the co-founder of the gay-dating Web site Manhunt has : $2,300Number of registered users on AshleyMadison.com, a site for people who "want to explore the new infidelity" : 2,540,000Number of scenes of or references to sex between a married couple shown during an average week of NBC programming : 1Number showing or referencing adultery or sex with minors, respectively : 1, 1Chances that a U.S. woman who gives birth is unmarried at the time : 2 in 5Minimum number of children in the United States who have at least one parent in the country illegally : 5,100,000Average number of new federal crimes that Congress creates each year : 56Chance that a 411 call in the United States is handled by a federal prisoner : 1 in 136Number of marijuana plants found under cultivation inside Miami's Mall of the Americas in August : 360Average number of hours per week that an American and a Chinese person, respectively, spend shopping : 4, 10Number of the 77 applications to protest during the Beijing Olympics this summer that were denied : 1Number that were withdrawn by the petitioners or suspended for incorrect paperwork : 76Number of South Koreans pardoned by the country's president on August 15 : 341,864Total votes cast online last fall to decide which Thanksgiving turkeys President Bush should pardon : 27,726Margin by which U.S. dog owners favor John McCain over Barack Obama : 43-34Margin by which Americans would rather watch football with Obama than with McCain : 50-47Number of free tattoos of Obama's face given out so far by a body artist in Moore, Okla. : 300

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Twitter Updates for 2008-11-12

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I am in class showing students how to use Twitter. #

@ichbindick89 hey dude, funky name. #

@alicialdella133 hiya #

@sk8a4lyph hiya, sk8r r gr8r. #

@Sk8a4lyph I am doing the best I reckon. #

@skipper10 All is well, yes? #

@harding30 how are you? #

@mitch_ervin whoa cool underscore #

@evanmckinney428 what up my man. #

@farmgirl251 hiya and happy twittering #

@tflowers hiya hammer discus girl #

@alesspho hello and happy twittering #

getting ready for a student conference #

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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Twitter Updates for 2008-11-11

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@chrislehmann How about an Asus Eee, flash drive, light weight, cheap internet browser and wordprocessor. #

@chrislehmann http://lin.cr/8n8 Link #

@chrislehmann Should be some good Black Friday deals like this: http://lin.cr/8nb #

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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When to Work for Nothing - Shifting Careers Blog - NYTimes.com

First, let’s consider when giving it up for nothing can work in your favor:You have no clients or portfolio. If you left your staff position without any customer testimonials or work samples, you may have to do a freebie or three for a worthy small business to prove to paying clients that you’ve done this before. Pick short-term projects (several days, tops) so you’re not stuck working pro bono until the next decade.Your dream client has shallow pockets. Writers, artists and performers are all too familiar with this phenomenon. Example: The indie magazine that barely pays its freelancers but, thanks to the power of PIE, has landed many of them agents, book deals and art shows. For business consultants, speaking at a highly publicized conference might yield similar results, in the form of new clients and paid speaking gigs. Be sure to build such unpaid work into your annual promotional plan (which can be all of two paragraphs) so you don’t give away too much time each year.You’re donating time to a worthy cause. When donating your services to your favorite nonprofit or charity, my motto is, “Give big.” Think high-profile auctions, galas and fund-raising marathons; the more PIE potential, the better. Although you’re doing the job gratis, send the client a short, informal contract clearly stating what you will and won’t do, and when.

When to Work for Nothing - Shifting Careers Blog - NYTimes.com

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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/12/2008

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Cool Stuff The Web Pitch - A blog looking at how small businesses are using Web 2.0 technologies

People don’t take notes when they go to the opera.

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-10

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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-09

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7 Reasons Diigo Tastes Better Than Delicious | MakeUseOf.com http://ping.fm/XMte4 via http://ping.fm/imNVt #

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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/10/2008

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Data Unbound Sorin Matei on Project Bamboo and the role of mashups

The immediate prompt for this post is Sorin Matei's The Bamboo Digital Humanities Initiative: A Modest Proposal. Matei's post has been of sufficient interest to me that I using it to prompt some discussion in a community of humanists and technologists. Matei makes a lot of useful points, but the segment that caught my attention is:

The role of the Bamboo platform would be to simplify this task by making access to tools, by enhancing our ability to connect digital objects and artifacts, our ability to connect with colleagues and students via simple, directly intuitive and universally available interfaces that all converge on the scholars’ desktop, preferably in the format of a word processor. [emphasis mine] Moreover, the platform should integrate in the most straightforward manner the learning and writing processes with those dedicated to publishing. This should be done in such a manner that dedicated genres and modus operandi (articles, book monographs, peer review, scientific validity checks, etc.) would survive, flourish even, under the new digital regime.

Amen. That's an approach I've been pursuing for a while now (in the Scholar's Box, for example)– and one I think that Zotero, as a desktop client, with some capacity for extensibility, can embody rather deeply.Matei goes on: I stop here, rather abruptly, waiting for reactions. I am planning, however, to release a sketch of such a platform, including essential services and affordances. It will also try to leverage the idea of the mashup editor as basic architecture strategy, which could be use to support the infrastructure of the system.
Data Unbound » Sorin Matei on Project Bamboo and the role of mashups

The idea of a scholar's desktop with someplace like the Internet Archive serving the whole deal is the medieval scriptorum writ very large. (continue reading &aquo;)

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