All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

Media @ LSE Group Weblog » Blog Archive » A university lecturer’s life in ’40s Britain?:
He has a leisurely breakfast at half-past-eight, followed by pipe and paper; reaches the University between ten and half-past; reads his letters and perhaps writes one; saunters into the Common Room for a cup of coffee; calls on a colleague, or the Bursar, or the Clerk to the Senate; returns to his room, glances through the latest issue of a learned review, has a few words with a pupil – and lo, it’s lunch-time. After lunch in the refectory, followed by a chat about the day’s news in the Common Room, he gives a lecture at half-past-two, and immediately afterwards hurries home lest he should be late for tea. After tea comes the day’s exercise (unless it happens to be a day when he has no lecture, in which case he plays golf in the afternoon) and after dinner he spends a couple of hours with a new book on his special subject (or a book from the circulating library on something else), after which, the paper again, a nightcap, and bed at eleven after a somewhat tiring but thoroughly well-spent day.

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very similar sometimes…. only about 1/10th as leisurely

Wiki Textbook Proposal:
To bing down the cost of expensive text books, and make them more universally accessible, a new project is proposing creating “wikitexts“, collaborative text books.
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isn’t this just wikibooks and wikiversity….

Top Ten Reasons you should not Blog « Messaging….. Technology…… Life…..:
Top Ten Reasons you should not Blog

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yep, 10 reasons….. it is always interesting when people make lists like this… it makes you wonder why anyone does anything… because most interesting human endeavors should not be done according to lists like this.

Pictures that lie:
news.com.com has a good photo-spread on “pictures that lie” and another one on the ways in which digital cameras are making it easier to subtly lie with without having to edit the image. A must see for anyone who believes their own eyes.

I’ll stand up right now and say that many of my sunset photos were taken in a “sunset” mode that completely changes the colour balance to make sunsets come out much “nicer.”

A third photo-spread explains High Dynamic Range (HDR), a technique used to overcome the fact that the eye has a wider dynamic range than any of the available image recording and presentational tools (cameras, films, printers, monitors, etc). These images are less like the original, but seem more like it.

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this post on educause blogs is very enlightening. it shows significant work in the construction of photography as news.

here is the current version of the syllabus that I’ll talk about today…

http://www.learninglibrarians.net/cl/digitalarchives/index.php?title=Syllabus2006

This is the first time that I’m teaching this course, so feedback on this or or my other course on Library 2.0 and Social Software is appreciated.

Rational sex ethics – Google Book Search:

Rational sex ethicsBy Walter Franklin Robie

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this is one of google’s recently released full books… unsurprisingly, i found it while looking for early sociology texts….

ok.. yes… i’m teaching it… Internet Resources for the Information Professional is a course that will cover social software and Library 2.0 applications and their use in libraries (surprise!) and the larger informational arena.

But wait… there’s more…. This course… and my digital archives course are both based in the mediawiki…. oh my… The whole course is a wiki…. yes… the whole course and every future version of this course will be in a wiki…. The knowledge will be passed from one generation to the other, we invite participants from the larger community to discuss things on the wiki at the discretion of the instructor(that’s me).

‘Digital Natives’ May Be Fleeing Lecture Halls [14]:
“Something is happening this semester that has never happened to me before,” writes Kristin Luker, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, on a forum for professors. ”[M]ore than half of my lecture class is just not showing up.” Judging by the responses to Ms. Luker’s observation, she’s not alone.
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thank god the students are finally waking up and saying ’screw this’. the lecture delivery model does not work, all it does is make students have to go home and study to learn the material… why not just bypass it and go home and study if you are able? there is generally, for any course that would be a lecture, plenty of info on the web to help you understand the material.

today was my first day… I actually got a fair amount done today academically, just didn’t get much done where it needed to be done. as usual… in any case, i also signed up for my health insurance, and all my other bennies. I think I’m going to change the blog a bit. I am actually going to blog a fair more about what i’ve do in the day… perhaps diary like, but likely i’ll post a bit of writing, a bit of work and generally just log things. For instance, today I spent a good bit of time talking on AoIR about privacy, property, and data. I also read an interesting Zygmunt Bauman article and read an article on design. I also spent some time working on my syllabus, which I’ll finish off tomorrow morning.

Blog Meme:
Here are the rules:

1. Delve into your blog archive.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

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i did not get to 5 sentences……
http://www.tmttlt.com/archives/2002/12/30/30/

Rumsfeld ‘offered help to Saddam’. Declassified papers leave the White House hawk exposed over his role during the Iran-Iraq war. [Guardian Unlimited]

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why, isn’t this surprising?