Steve Ersinghaus

An interesting post on current editing of the Sarah Palin entry at Wikipedia from Dan Cohen.

Four poems from the 100 Images Project clouded by Wordle.

I’ve had odd problems with my isight camera ever since I purchased my macbook pro, switching over from a PC after more than twenty years with the IBM and Windows paradigm, even though I got interested in computers in the early eighties with Apple 2es. The problem: I’d open Photobooth or Skype and would [...]

From the Pew Research Center
Net-Newsers are the youngest of the news user segments (median age: 35). They are affluent and even better educated than the News Integrators: More than eight-in-ten have at least attended college. Net-Newsers not only rely primarily on the internet for news, they are leading the way in using new web features [...]

I think I have it. In Composition 2, Tunxis’ research course, we will be watching Wesch videos and simply infer subjects from there. It will give an opportunity to branch into media, politics, law, new media, futures, and space. Basically, I have generic assignments constructed whose content can be pretty much anything, [...]

My wife’s first video call to K at Cornell.

Here’s the same old circle
Some Web evangelists say children should be evaluated for their proficiency on the Internet just as they are tested on their print reading comprehension. Starting next year, some countries will participate in new international assessments of digital literacy, but the United States, for now, will not.
Clearly, reading in print and on [...]

Dennis Jerz sends this link to Nick Montfort’s post on a Media in Transition conference. A good one for our librarians.

As I write this big budget cuts are coming and will hit Connecticut Higher Ed pretty hard and, of course, everyone else. Indeed, slender funds will hurt much of my plans for the coming years on the subject of hyperdrama and hypertext literature.
It’s been bugging me that nationally the country has yet to be [...]

The relationship between today’s paper Courant and the digital version is interesting. The digital version pretends that the paper doesn’t exist and the paper is full of stories about Tribune Co cuts that will see 25% cuts in staff and a trimming of an already spare version.
The corporate news model never worked. It’s [...]

We’ve talking a lot about narrative distance this week (and last week). August Wilson has a neat example of this in his play, Fences. Here’s a chain:
1. Troy and Cory clash at the end of the play after building tension between them.
2. While not immediately linked to the above, but critical to it, [...]

Lots of interesting conversation and work at Hypertext 08. It’s going to take a few days to recover from the travel and the amount of ideas passed about.

The Tunxis Summer Mash-Up is a two-week intensive program designed for high school students interested in combining their creative talents with contemporary technology to explore the world of digital storytelling.
Students will produce three short films: a self-portrait, a documentary, and a work of fiction. Each of these projects will be mentored by faculty members who [...]

Roger Travis has an interesting set of activities up. I wonder if he wouldn’t me borrowing some of it.
Unit 1. The bardic occasion, then and now (A, B) (3 weeks)
* Activities: (reading) Iliad 2, Odyssey 8-9, Lord, Singer of Tales; (gaming) Play a level or quest three times, preferably in [...]