“This land is not for sale. Some day I hope to build on it.”
I was hanging out with a philosophy professor at an interdisciplinary conference on Friday night. This is not something I usually do, but this guy was way cool. Besides specializing…
Techno-fetishists can’t see the forest through the trees.
I actually remember the speeches at my college graduation. It helps that the President of Penn when I graduated was the late, great Southern historian Sheldon Hackney. While I can't…
MOOCs as torture.
White man's neo-liberal techno-fantasy. These are not the kind of words designed to get me to read a book, yet these are the terms that keep appearing in my Twitter…
Between a rock and a hard place.
I became fascinated by Ben Nelson's Minerva Project long before I became fascinated with MOOCs. You can see the product of that fascination in my one (and so far only)…
Hell has frozen over.
This Broncos fan has written something nice about Richard Sherman.
But The Man CAN bust our music.
As a comparatively old person, I think in albums. No song from the second side of "Abbey Road" sounds right to me unless the whole thing is played in order.…
My adventures teaching digital history.
I've had an absolutely terrible semester. The reason was/still is for one more week my fourth class. Like one of those self-destructive overworked academics who my friend Kate describes so…
“I want to break free.”
So apparently I've driven Michael Feldstein to drink. I, for one, think the quality of his post is worth the cost (but then again it's not my liver that's involved).…
LMS = AOL.
Who remembers America Online? No, I don't mean the nondescript media company that's still barely around today. I'm talking about the dominant player in dial-up Internet way back in the…
How long will your course remain yours?
I am a fundamentally lazy person. That's a heckuva thing to admit in public, but really all it means is that if I don't like what I'm working on I…
