Entries from Mike Rossmassler tagged with '511'

Backchannel Frustration

Being laptop-less, i have had the "opportunity" this semester to participate in the seminar sessions in a largely analog fashion. The past few weeks have left me slightly befuddled, as my experiences with seminar have left me looking at multimodal...

Luke Moloney

Backchannel after the jump:...

Alice Taylor

Tonight's speaker was very interesting. Associated with the BBC, she talked about the growing interest in major corporations for new technology and new modes of thinking. Cool stuff, and good to hear that the beeb is thinking about this kind...

Jordan Weisman backchannel

Here's a transcript of the backchannel chat from today's seminar. didn't get to liveblog it because i chose to googlejockey instead. There's so many buzzwords in that sentence that i feel like puking. Full stuff after the jump...

Simon Penny

Liveblogging of the Simon Penny Talk......

Simon Penny

The guest speaker tonight is Simon Penny, and i'm just writing this to remind myself to bring up one of my perennial topics, the implantation of rare earth magnets. Thanks to Anthony for digging up those links. The installation. The...

511 Seminar with danah boyd

So today we had a nice sit-down with danah boyd, social network theorist, and holder of many degrees. She talks quickly and precisely, and her enthusiasm for the subject is extremely evident. The topic? Social structures stemming from online environments....

First week

Wednesday's meeting, a sort of catch-up for all all of us first years, was a lot more fun than some similar classes that i had in my years as an undergraduate. I think that's largely due to the company and...