Monthly Archives: February 2009

As many of you know, I’m the director of Utah State University’s OpenCourseWare project. We’re pretty proud of what we’ve built, and it’s always nice to get a bit of recognition.

I try to avoid politics on this blog, but every once in a while I have to. CNN wrote a piece about Attorney General Eric Holder who called America a ‘Nation of Cowards’. Why are we cowards? From the article: … Continue reading →

I’m a big fan of the musical You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. I’ve written about the musical before on this blog. Usually I just listen to the music–I haven’t seen the musical itself in years. But today I went … Continue reading →

I’ve been a fan of Cory Doctorow for some time. I think he hits the nail on the head with the recent Author’s Guild/Kindle tiff. And of course David Wiley’s opinion is always worth reading.

“I look at my photography like this. When I make an image it belongs to me. It belongs to me while I take the photo. It belongs to me while it sits in my camera. It belongs to me while … Continue reading →

Looks like the Author’s Guild is not fond of the next generation Kindle. Or more specifically, what the Kindle can do. The goal of the Kindle is to provide every book ever written in under 60 seconds–for a price, of … Continue reading →

You’ve heard of remixes, right? Where you take an existing work and modify it from it’s original form? You might add elements, take elements away. The end result is a new work based on the old one. It’s most commonly … Continue reading →

An extremely interesting piece from RadioLab (a public radio program and podcast) talking about the “Obama Effect”. A researcher gave subjects a questionnaire before Obama gave his inauguration speech. He found that whites scored slightly higher than blacks. After the … Continue reading →

One more reason to buy an Android (or an iPhone, you fan boys).

Look at this image of comments on this Digg article. What exactly do you call this? Spontaneous, crowd, lyric recitation? Bizarre.