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Category: Ideas

  • Where I Am

    When we tell people where we are – such as a Facebook status update or a Foursquare check in – we are in essence telling people where we are not. When I tell you that I’m at work, it means that I’m not at home. I was listening to a…

  • Facebook’s Project Titan

    Did you know that Facebook will be launching a full featured email capability?  I didn’t know that, but I do now.  It’ll be cool.  I already use Facebook to do alot of my messaging instead of email because many of my students won’t even check their e mail anymore.  Plus…

  • Augmented Reality

    There is real reality – the physical, touchable, face to face reality that you really don’t have to do anything to experience.  There is virtual reality or a digital reality – the interaction with a real live person across the computer screen – and you may not know if what…

  • Technology Doesn’t Change You

    I have been thinking about this since I saw a tweet about a week ago. Someone had tweeted – what the latest movies say about who we have become. They suggested that we have become more “escapist” as people. As if movies like Avatar make us want to live different…

  • Who I Am and the Process

    Identity is always in process.  You can say to people that “this…is who I am.”  You can describe who you are – at that moment, at that point in the process, but “Who I Am” is always in process.  In fact, tomorrow you will be different.  Your identity will be…

  • Tag Your Name

    I’m sure you bloggers already know this, but just in case you don’t-tag some of your posts with your name.  Add tags that describe the post, but also add your name so that you can be found. It also helps to just create a tag with your name so that…

  • Music and the Heavens

    I don’t know how else to say it, but sometimes I just hear a song or listen to a type of music that just takes me to the heavens.  Do you know what I am talking about? Sometimes it’s just one chord – a chord in the middle of a…

  • Tweet Psych

    I just heard about tweetpsych.com.  Here is my profile. Here’s what the site says about itself – TweetPsych lists creates a psychological profile of any public Twitter account and compares it to the thousands already in the database. This identifies those traits that are used more or less frequently by…

  • Digital and Real Life

    You all know that you have a real life, but did you know that you have a digital life.  Whether you spend much time on your blog or e mail, you have a digital footprint.  I’ve found friends off of their times on a 10k race they did years ago…

  • Customize Education

    College students these days customize everything.  You can customize your web browser, your desktop, your profiles, and I’ve even heard of kids customizing the clothes that they buy at the Gap.  You can’t just buy it and wear it without tweaking it somehow. I’ve always wondered how I could make…

  • The Web in Your Pocket

    Isn’t that just way too cool.  I mean, if you remember the days of dial up – where a 28.8k connection was fast – being able to access the web from something that fits in your pocket is way cool. A few days ago, I was having breakfast with a…

  • Peltzman Effect

    An economist – Sam Peltzman came up with this idea.  You can wikipedia or Google search this idea, but I heard about it this morning. Basically, the idea suggests that as the safety equipment or safety regulation improves that people’s behavior gets more risky.  A car that super safe can…