Is “picting” a word? Should it be?
tokyokevinSo you have "texting", and a new--some would say equivalent--literacy of taking pictures, or "picting". Norris and Soloway argue that it is becoming more and more important. To which I…
Digital Natives? Not in my class.
Digital Girl This is the first week in class, which means signing up for a lot of websites to get set up. One site had instructions printed with the URL…
Media Monday: A dilemma. No. Two dilemmas.
Up today: New and interesting Media finds. First dilemma: Which one first, and why are there only 24 hours in a day? A Netflix documentary about movie directors doing documentaries…
Politics in Rural America. Some thoughts.
Movies: I really liked Hell or High Water, and Jeff Bridges does a great job at the understated role of the hero. I kept thinking about the younger brother in…
Wolfe on Darwin and Chomsky
I thought I had decided not to read Tom Wolfe's latest The Kingdom of Speech, I had read a few reviews and remembered his declining quality since A Man in Full. I have read…