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As an obvious example of “Old Media” in the U.S., The New York Times is easy to criticize. But the paper and the media company have also been showing signs that maybe, just maybe, they are home to people who do understand what is happening online, these days. Back in September 2007, for instance, the […]
Leave a comment | tags: Austin, Automattic, bloggers, Blogging, blogging platforms, convergence, David Pogue, Houston, integrating technologies, iTunes U, journalists, Matt Mullenweg, Mullenweg, new media, New York Times, next big things, Old Media, OpenSocial, podcasting, saxophone, technology integration, venture capital, Web 2.1, Web 3.0, WordPress, WordPress.com | posted in journalism, New York Times, ramblings, wishful thinking, wishlists, WordPress, WordPress.com
On a recent episode of his Radio Open Source podcast, Christopher Lydon admits that the fact that the recent Israeli attack came between issues of the New York Times had an impact on his ability to reflect on the issue. The episode itself, especially near the end, linked “normalcy” in Israeli society with a culture […]
1 Comment | tags: consensus, current affairs, Israel, Lebanon, optimist alter-globalization, protectionism, self-determination, sovereignty, wars, Washington consensus, world without borders | posted in consumerism, groupthink, Nation-States, nationalism, New York Times, Québec, Radio Open Source, standardization
Using WordPress to build content directories and databases.
2 Comments | tags: Blancer, Child Theme, cognitive anthropology, complexity, content database, content directory, Content Management Systems, Custom Columns, Custom Fields, Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, Drupal, eliciting categories, ethnography of communication, ethnoscience, ethnosemantics, Facebook, free software ethos, freelance work, geek culture, Golden Hammer, Justin Tadlock, Konstantin Kovshenin, Kyle Jones, Metaboxes, Moodle, More Fields, More Taxonomies, More Types, More-Plugins, Super Admin, Swiss smiles, SyntaxHighlighter, Theme Hybrid, TikiWiki, Tumblr, tutorial, Twenty Ten, Twitter, WordPress Multisite, WordPress.org | posted in Anthropology, applied anthropology, comment-fishing, development, enthusiasm, experience, experimentation, expertise, geekness, informal learning, learn by doing, linguistic anthropology, linkfest, Open Source Movement, participatory culture, playfulness, productivity, qualitative research, ramblings, shameless plug, specialization, technology, training, wishful thinking, wishlists, WordPress, WordPress.com
What does social network analysis tell us about groupthink and boundaries?
Leave a comment | tags: Armenians, Azeris, blurred boundaries, borders, Charles McEnerney, Christopher Lydon, Deborah Tannen, Erik Hersman, Ethan Zuckerman, FoJ, Gerd Leonhard, Gregor Mendel, introductory sociology, Jeremy Clarke, Jonah Lehrer, journalistic worldview, journos, Kerim Friedman, macrolevel, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Granovetter, microlevel, Onnik Krikorian, politicos | posted in Actively Reading, bloggers, blogosphere, Clueing, Communities, cultural diversity, cultural identity, diversity, ethnocentrism, glocalization, groupthink, identity, individualism, language, linkfest, mass media, media, naïve, naïveté, Nation-States, nationalism, New York Times, New York Times, personal, politics, ramblings, relativism, shameless plug, social butterflies, social butterfly effect, social networking, social networks, wishful thinking
I commend some of Concordia’s librarians for the quality of their work. Because I care.
1 Comment | tags: Cameron Hoffman, Concordia University, David Thirlwall, Gerald Beasley, Jennifer Cyr, Kumiko Vézina, librarians, Olivier Charbonneau, Open Letter, Patrick Labelle, Susie Breier | posted in Academia, comment-fishing, Concordia University, Education, enthusiasm, ivory tower, librarians, personal, shameless plug
(Why Are Academics So) Misunderstood?
5 Comments | tags: academic disciplines, academic figures, academic obfuscation, Alexa Offenhauer, anecdotes, anthropologists, areas of expertise, Austin Hill, banned books, being taken seriously, Benjamin Lee Whorf, boiling-down, Bourdieu, Bruno Nettl, cautionary tales, censorphips, common knowledge, Dan Levitin, Darwin, de Man, disinformation, dismissiveness, distinction, Edward Sapir, Einstein, esteem, ethnographers, fieldworkers, fighting ignorance, Freud, Germaine Dieterlen, gift economies, Heidegger, Hugh McGuire, impostor syndrome, intersubjectivity in ethnography, James Watson, Johannes Fabian, key informants, kinship systems, Language Log, LingAnth, linguists, linktrail, Loose Leaf Writing, lowering standards, Malcolm Gladwell, Marcel Mauss, Marcia Herndon, Mark Zuckerberg, Marx, mathematicians, mathematics, misinformation, misunderstandings, Newton, Nietzsche, non-academics, NPR, onedownmanship, oversimplification, pet peeves, pop psych, pop psychology, popular psychology, popularizers, potlatch, prestige, psychologists, Regna Darnell, Rousseau, sacred cows, Savage Minds, Schutz, self-righteousness, snobbery, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, Socrates, status, sullied names, survey courses, talking through one's hat, upper-level courses, useful fallacies, watered-down, we-ness | posted in A, Academia, academics, Anthropology, applied anthropology, arrogance, audience, comment-fishing, Communities, cultural anthropology, cultural awareness, ethnocentrism, Ethnography, ethnomusicology, expertise, informal learning, intellectualism, intellectuals, interdisciplinarity, ivory tower, knowledge, knowledge management, language, language sciences, linguistic anthropology, linkfest, mass media, mindshare, Placeholders, podcasts, professionals, public, ramblings, readership, respect, responsiveness, scholarship, science, sciences, shameless plug, soapbox, sociocentrism, sophistication, specialists, specialization, stereotypes, teaching and learning, textbooks, trusting people
Sometimes, you might as well make radical changes in your life.
4 Comments | tags: adaptation, adaptive, Apple, bankruptcy, career changes, clean slate, David Allen, divorce, Done with Fish, email bankruptcy, flexibility, flexible, Google, Google Wave, GTD, homebrewing, Larry Lessig, leaps of faith, life shifts, moving on, nimble, nimbleness, podcasting, podfade, radical solutions, responsiveness, starting over, startups | posted in comment-fishing, personal life, Placeholders, quickies, ramblings, responsiveness
Sarcastic do’s and don’ts list about “improper” Twitter behaviour.
1 Comment | tags: admonitions, business models, claims, commercial promotion, dogmatism, liveblogging, microblogging, Promoted Tweets, sarcasm, self-righteousness, Tweet Police, Twitter | posted in activism, advertising, advice, advocacy, arrogance, Blogging, blogging systems, blogging tools, comment-fishing, consumerism, corporate sponsorship, development strategies, ethnocentrism, freedom, humanism, humor, humour, moral enterpreneurs, online communication, openness, opinions, participatory culture, personal, playfulness, ramblings, rants, relativism, respect, responsiveness, social contract, social dynamics, Spoofs, taste, technological determinism, wishful thinking
Sounds like iWork for iPad will export to Word but not to PowerPoint or Excel.
6 Comments | tags: export formats, features, file exchange, file formats, Google Docs, import formats, iPad, iWork, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, promises, SlideShare, Steve Jobs, Walt Mossberg, Zoho, Zoho Show | posted in Apple, Austin, cluefulness, collaborative learning, comment-fishing, content, course management systems, Crazy Predictions, Creative Commons, Education, getting things done, iPod touch, learning and teaching, learning materials, lecturecasts, linkfest, Moodle, Outlining, participatory culture, pedagogy, predictions, productivity, ramblings, shameless plug, students, Teaching, teaching and learning, techno enthusiasts, techno lust, wishful thinking, wishlists, workflow, writing
Books are modern. Online textuality is postmodern.
Leave a comment | tags: Bill Reimer, books, Claude Shannon, conative, Dell Hymes, Deschooling Society, efficient reading, emotive, eurocentrism, football theory of communication, freedom to think, Ivan Illich, J-Schools, Jean Piaget, Judith Irvine, liberal democracy, liberalism, linguistic anthropology, literacy, Mali, mandatory education, Max Weber, metalinguistic, Natural Histories of Discourse, Noam Chomsky, non-linear, PDF, phatic, Pierre Bourdieu, poetic, post-modernism, PowerPoint, reading, reading skills, referential, Richard Bauman, scribes, scriptocentrism, Shadow Conversations, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Warren Weaver, William Labov | posted in Academia, academic models, academic publishing, academics, arrogance, blog comments, Blogging, cluefulness, comment-fishing, commenting, constructivism, critical thinking, cultural capital, education systems, ethnocentrism, friends, hegemony, humanism, informal learning, intellectual property, intellectualism, journalism, knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge people, language ideology, language sciences, linkfest, literature, mass media, media, mediascape, memory, online publishing, opinions, participatory culture, performance, product and process, radio, rants, readership, relativism, respect, schools, shameless plug, social capital, social change, social networking, social networks, social publishing, sophistication, writing
I recently posted a rambling version of instructions about how to install BuddyPress 1.1.3 on FatCow: Installing BuddyPress on a Webhost « Disparate. BuddyPress 1.2 was just released, with some neat new features including the ability to run on a standard (non-WPµ) version of WordPress and a new way to handle templates. They now have […]
2 Comments | tags: BuddyPress, BuddyPress 1.2, FatCow, Tutorials | posted in Blogging, blogging systems, comment-fishing, Education, open-source, quickies, social networking, social networks, social software, Tech, training, WordPress
DoubleShot Coffee Company: More Espresso Arguments. I’m not in the coffee biz but I do involve myself in some coffee-related things, including barista championships (sensory judge at regional and national) and numerous discussions with coffee artisans. In other words, I’m nobody important. In a way, I “come from” the worlds of beer and coffee homebrewing. […]
Leave a comment | tags: arbitrariness, artifice, attitudes, barista championships, baristas, Beer Judge Certification Program, BJCP, breaking out, brewed coffee, camaraderie, Canadian Barista Championship, CBC, coffee brewing, coffee community, coffee consumption, coffee producers, collegiality, comradeship, conflicts, culinary institutes, debriefing, Eastern Regional Canadian Barista Championship, evaluation, feedback, French restaurants, hobbies, homeroasting, Iron Chef, judging, martial arts, personal attitudes, quality control, reality checks, specialty coffee, tensions, Third Wave Coffee, trip to origin, tudes, WBC, World Barista Championship | posted in amateurs, arrogance, Beer, beer scene, Beverages, blog comments, cafés, Clueing, Coffee, coffee scenes, comment-fishing, Communities, community-building, consumption, craft, cuisine, culinary, DoubleShot Coffee Company, espresso, Food, food and culture, food and society, food philosophy, French, geek crowd, geek culture, groupthink, homebrewing, Institutions, podcasts, ramblings, shameless plug, specialists, specialization, taste, tasting, wishful thinking
Installing BuddyPress on a FatCow-hosted site. With ramblings.
3 Comments | tags: #wpmtl, .htaccess, .htaccess Editor, Apache, Archive Gateway, bbPress, blog name, BlueHost, Buddymatic, BuddyPress, BuddyPress themes, building websites, business features, child themes, cloud computing, comparison shopping, content management, cPanel, CyberDuck, digressions, domain names, EarlyMorning, elite theory, extended profiles, Fantastico, FatCow, FatCow issues, FatCow problems, FatCow review, FatCow woes, FatCow.com, fatcowmysql.com, FileManager, FileManager Beta, FileZilla, forum software, forums, friendship, Google AdSense, HostGator, HostGator Subscription, InstallCentral, LAMP, Manage MySQL, MySQL 5, open registrations, Pareto Principle, personal projects, PHP 5, PHP MySQL, phpMyAdmin, public_html, sandboxes, social features, staging servers, statistical minority, subdomains, troubleshooting, Tutorials, Twitter RSS, unlimited webhosting, verbose, verbosity, web development, webhosting companies, webhosts, Websites, WordPress µ, WordPress Montreal, WordPress MU, WordPress plugins, WordPress security, WordPress.org, WPµ, WPMU | posted in Blogging, blogging systems, blogging tools, blogosphere, Clueing, comment-fishing, comments, Communities, community-building, Content Management Systems, development, Digital Life, digital lifestyle, experience, experimentation, free software, gadgets, geek crowd, geekness, geeks, learn by doing, musings, new media, online communication, online communities, online publishing, Open Source Movement, open-source, participatory culture, ramblings, rants, social networking, social networks, social publishing, social software, software, Tech, Web applications, WordPress, WordPress.com, workflow
Annotations on a critique of the OLPC project.
Leave a comment | tags: BBC, CBC, citizenship, critical thinking skills, Discovery, draft aesthetics, Kenney, media literacy, media outlets, Nicholas Negroponte, PRI, PRI's The World, The World's Technology Podcast, TVO | posted in Actively Reading, audience, comment-fishing, critical thinking, groupthink, journalism, linkfest, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, Placeholders, quickies, ramblings, shameless plug
A year ago today, I found out that I was, in fact, happy.
13 Comments | tags: #pcmtl, 1987, 1996, 2008, adolescence, airplane cold, backstories, bonheur, Boris Vian, Brasserie Benelux, Café Myriade, Camus, canon, Crescent, de Beauvoir, Descartes, downtown Montreal, empathy, ethnography colloquium, existential crisis, existentialism, folk diseases, folk medicine, Freud, Greek sweater, happiness, happiness anniversary, happy-go-lucky, Heidegger, hepatitis A, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, humankind, Intersubjectivity, jetlag, key moments in life, LA Story, life philosophy, life stages, match, Maupassant, Meaning of Life, mononucleosis, Nietzsche, opinions, others, phenomenology, PodCamp Montreal, Sartre, Serenity, sleeping, slogans, social life, social media, soulmate, St. Catherine, Swiss smiles, veiled references, Vian, well-being | posted in Beverages, bonheur, cluefulness, Coffee, confessions, douceur de vivre, enthusiasm, experience, Food, food philosophy, hedonism, humanism, joie de vivre, Laval, Montreal, naïve, naïveté, nostalgia, nostalgie, openness, optimism, People, personal, personal life, Placeholders, Places, playfulness, pleasure, Québec, satisfaction, shameless plug, social, social networks, social support systems, sociocentrism, success in life, Switzerland, trusting people
Planning my #pcmtl session.
3 Comments | tags: #pcmtl, pcmtl09, PodCamp, social media, Sociology, Web sociology | posted in comment-fishing, geek crowd, geek culture, geekness, geeks, new media, participatory culture, podcasting, quickies, shameless plug, social, social butterfly effect, social capital, social networks
A mad brewer’s approach to wild yeast and bacteria.
Leave a comment | tags: bacteria, bacterial culture, Belgian Artist, Berliner Weisse, Brettanomyces, carefree brewing, categories, cognitive anthropology, cultural diversity, darwinism, ethnoscience, folk knowledge, folk taxonomy, folksonomies, folksonomy, German Engineer, lactobacillus, lambic brewing, pure yeast, pure yeast culture, sanitization, scientific mindframe, scientificity, stereotypes, tags, White Labs, wild yeast, Wyeast, yeast, yeast culture | posted in A, adaptation, Alcohol, amateurs, Beer, beer diversity, beer history, brewing, comment-fishing, confessions, craft beer, craft beer culture, creation, creativity, cultural diversity, cultural identity, culture, diversity, enthusiasm, Ethnography, experience, experimentation, expertise, folkloristics, food and culture, food philosophy, freedom, geek culture, hedonism, homebrewing, humanism, humour, identity, informal learning, informality, innovation, interdisciplinarity, knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge people, language sciences, learn by doing, librarians, linguistic anthropology, musings, naïve, naïveté, personal, personal life, play, playfulness, pleasure, product and process, ramblings, responsible drinking, science, sciences, shameless plug, soapbox, specialists, standardization, stereotypes, tagging, tags, taste, tasting, trends, WordPress, WordPress.com
Ramblings about my passions for beer and experimentation.
2 Comments | tags: anecdotes, baking, Bièropholie, Chicago Beer Society, childhood, cooking, crazy, experimental spirit, mad, Members of Barleyment, MontreAlers, personal narrative, Prague, sour ales, Vienna, wild, wild ales, wild beers | posted in acquaintances, Alcohol, amateurs, Austin, Beer, beer diversity, beer geeks, beer history, beer scene, beerpubs, Beverages, binge drinking, brewclubs, brewing, brewpubs, Chicago, Coffee, comment-fishing, Communities, community-building, confessions, cooking, craft beer, craft beer culture, creativity, cuisine, cultural diversity, cultural identity, culture, enthusiasm, experience, experimentation, expertise, Food, food and culture, food and society, food philosophy, friendship, geek culture, hedonism, homebrewing, humanism, Indiana, mega-breweries, microbreweries, Montreal, networking, New Brunswick, nostalgia, online communities, participatory culture, People, personal, personal life, Places, product and process, ramblings, responsible drinking, shameless plug, social, social butterflies, social butterfly effect, social dynamics, social networking, social networks, social support systems, South Bend, Switzerland, taste, tasting, teenagers
The coffee world can learn from the beer world.
3 Comments | tags: Alex Scott, Anthony Benda, baristas, Bill Herne, Bridgehead, Café Myriade, Canadian Barista Championship, Cliff Hansen, coffee community, Eastern Regional Canadian Barista Championship, Vida Radovanovic | posted in advertising, advocacy, Alcohol, Beer, beer geeks, beer history, Beverages, brewclubs, brewing, brewpubs, cafés, CBC, Clueing, Cluetrain Manifesto, Coffee, coffee scenes, comment-fishing, commodities, communitas, Communities, community-building, consumerism, craft beer, craft beer culture, culinary, drinks, economics, Education, enthusiasm, experimentation, food and culture, food and society, foodies, geek culture, geeks, globalisation, glocalisation, grassroots, groupthink, hedonism, homebrewing, informal learning, innovation, knowledge management, learn by doing, linkfest, musings, openness, participatory culture, ramblings, restaurants, shameless plug, soapbox, social dynamics, social networking, sociocentrism, sophistication, Starbucks, success in life, taste, training, trends, trusting people, wishful thinking
