Several weeks ago I came across an open call for work to be considered for a photography exhibit that asked, "Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?" The wording of the call is wonderful, and brings into focus the relationship among space, geography,…
This Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative (NJKI) is going to have its $1 million FY2008 funding is going to be cut from the state budget. As a result, students, faculty, and staff at colleges and businesses that are associated with NJKI, which includes my institution, will no longer have access…
via PostSecret One of the greatest culture shocks of my life (that is, after the shock that came from moving to Cincinnati after an unbroken year in Europe) came when I moved to Texas and it was not because of the politics or the history or anything, but the fact that there is so…
In two of my classes this semester, Writing for Electronic Communities and Technologies and the Future of Writing, we spend some time thinking about mid-20th century predictions about the future of electronic technologies. We read Vannevar Bush’s (1945) "As We May Think," view Doug Englebart’s (1968) presentation that introduced the mouse, word processing, as…