Posts from — October 2003

Educause releases 2002 Core Data Survey (IT in Higher Ed).

http://www.educause.edu/coredata/reports/2002/

Actual Educause members will have seen this ages ago, but for the rest of us, the latest summary of their survey of trends in IT in post-secondary has just been released.

Things I found to be of interest:

[EdTechPost]

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this is the data from that report the other week.

Yesterday, afternoon i went to see the Histories panel at the < a href="http://aoir.org/2003">aoir conference. The papers were interesting, the net years papers was intriguing, i'm wondering about capital times…. if every year is 7 years of amnesiac passings on the net, then the hypertemporal perspective becomes hyperpolitical, it would be good to tie virilio into that. beyond that the thought was put forth 'what came before the homepage' to which i thought 'the home directory'….

the other two papers were about Australian internet history, one presented a cultural-political history and the other proposed a modified annales school methodology. both are interesting works and I look forward to seeing them upon completion.

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after the panels we had our reception and i met Megan Boler and Tracy Kennedy and chatted a bit, took some video. all good fun. I also ran into Rajiv Shaw who is applying for a job that I'm also applying for.

after that I went to dinner with some folks, came back to the hotel and chatted for a while and had drinks with some of the usual criminals.

she links to my site, i link to her site

well so far the conference has been excellent, I've given my ethics presentation, which was well accepted, we had alot of interesting people at the ethics workshop including some interesting thoughts on some of the implications of the canadian research experience.

I gave my presentation internet environment as work environment. My co-panellists were Gina Neff and Anabel Quan-Haase, both presented interesting papers. Gina's was on her work on social networks and the spaciality of the nyc it boom and its implications. Anabel presented a paper on IM use in a corporation where she used ethnographic methods and interface analysis of IM's to shows the relative modes of conversation are contrary to our assumptions of, people who work closer tend to use im more, but that is somewhat influenced by the networks and strengths of their relationship

I then went to the first gaming sessions, on mmorgs. It was very interesting, and there is much work to explore in that area. Of course, i was waylaid for a minute and missed some of Jennifer's presentation, but I found her work on norm construction in sims online and the way those norms are enacted in that realm to be a significant push forward into research that I usually work on. I'm less interested in the performative actions available, but the textuality of actions and its implications.

Now i am in Lucy Suchman's Keynote which deals with Ethnographic practices.

there is an internet research 4.0 blog and this link is its url

i posted this once before. pathe is putting their whole news archive on the web. this is quite a few photos…

So now I'm in Toronto, at the hilton. wee. No bank wanted to give me money until finally walked through the rain to the canadian trust where i finally found a machine that took my card, but it said i had no money too, strange…. well we'll see if i'm in the poor house or not.

New Directions in Humanities Computing (Film at 11). Complete streaming video (and a very nice presentation too) of a round table on “New Directions in Humanities Computing” from the 2002 ALLC/ACH conference in T&#159;bingen, Germany. Speakers include David Robey, L&#135;szl&#151; Hunyadi, Thomas Rommel, John Dawson, Susan Hockey, Jean… [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum]

After Holzer. Jenny Holzer has been much discussed in the Scandinavian hypertext weblog cluster. [Mark Bernstein]

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I've been a fan of Holzer for a while. I have one of her truisms posted on my office door.

off to Toronto tomorrow at 10:00am i arrive at 2:30pm.

list of things to do:

house sitter is set
Video Camera is set
workshop presentation in sort of weak state, but workable
returning library book shortly
called Hooptie for an airport shuttle


now all i have to do is go home, clean up some more and pack and i'm ready!