by Whitney | Jun 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Anybody who thinks books are dead wasn’t in Philadelphia this past weekend. I stood in line to hear David Sedaris do a reading and sign books. (His new book, When You are Engulfed in Flames, is out) It was about 95 degrees outside, and ungodly hot and humid. As...
by Whitney | Jun 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
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by Whitney | Jun 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Or, perhaps this should be called- Knowing Just Enough to Cause You To Waste Time. We can’t all know it all, especially in new media. New applications and tools come online just about every day, making keeping up, let alone mastery, nearly impossible for any...
by Whitney | May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Julien Smith has a great video posted on his blog, featuring a lecture by Elizabeth Warren ,a law professor at Harvard Law School, discussing the gradual erosion of the American Middle Class over time. The most important points she makes (to me) are the financial...
by Whitney | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
At a session at Podcamp NYC on Education and the Web, Chris Hambly spoke about teachers becoming “Guides on the Side” rather than simply talking heads in the front of a room. This neatly summed up something I have been thinking about for some time, which...
by Whitney | Apr 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
We just had a great Podcamp NYC. It was marred a bit for me, as an organizer, by two groups of people who helped themselves to an unoccupied sponsor table. They weren’t just sitting there, blogging- no- they made signs and set themselves up as defacto...
