- There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick • The Register – The middle-aged Register speaks to the medicare-aged retiring. There’s more time to stay further in front of the curve when you’re old.> The kids of my day bantered in rhyming slang and Nadsat; these days they speak StartUp and DipShit.
> Age has nothing to do with the definition of culture.
> In fact, the whole age thing is overrated if you ask me. All my neighbours are long retired but they are completely up to date on modern culture, from AI in healthcare to Facebook’s naughtiness. OK, admittedly one of them thought Stormy Daniels was a rapping conjurer but that’s what you get when you strike up conversation in the automated till queue at Waitrose.
> It’s simply because most people are thick. I realise now that I’m not an old geezer worried that modern culture has left him behind. I’m just a snob. Phew! I can live with that. – (culture )
- [toread] An Apology for the Internet — From the People Who Built It – – (history )
- [toread] Fandom, Feminism, and Maker Pedagogy – – (maker_pedagogy making )
- Civil war erupts at top of FCC over Sinclair’s creepy grasp on US telly – > “We need to stand up, speak out, and call out when government is being used as a tool to attack the conditions that make it possible for news to serve as a check on power,” said Rosenworcel. “We cannot allow the cry of fake news to extinguish our inquiry into hard subjects, diminish our willingness to seek truth, or temper our support for the First Amendment.” – (fcc freespeech )
- 25 Years of EdTech – 2003: Blogs – – (#en3177 )
- RSS is undead – Reasons to love RSS: no branding, no user analytics, no ads, user rather than provider curation. Content. – (socialpractices reading marketing rss )
- The Final Surrender of Anti-Trump Conservatism – “An authoritarian can be a Republican in good standing.” Not really a novel conclusion. But conservative support for Trump has revealed the anti-democratic ideology at its core. – (authoritarianism politics trump )
- The Fall of the TV Family in Trump’s America | WIRED – The TV family sitcom never was a forum for debate. The Beaver never sat dow with Wally and had it out. Rosanne has was a Snidely Whiplash melodrama.> rushed through on the way to the next joke – (none)
- 25 Years of EdTech – 2000: Learning objects – LO couldn’t die fast enough. Locally, they were pushed top down by admins looking for standardization. Pedagogically, the problem was decontextualization that drained them of worth outside of training. – (open_learning learningobjects )
- Better than the Printed Page: Reading on an iPad – Modding the iPad for reading. – (ipad reading visual_perception )
- Language Log » Cultural diffusion and the Whorfian hypothesis – Co-diffusion as a mechanism – (Linguistic_change classification linguistics )
Tag Archives: Linguistic_change
on pinboard for April 30th, 2014
- Feed: Texting, Twitter, and the Student 2.0 – TECHStyle – The changing position of the writing instructor. "Consider … the tangible violence technology has wrought upon grammar" and then tweet your own 140 character essay. An exercise in composition. – (DH Linguistic_change fyc )
- James Joyce Scholars’ Collection | University of Wisconsin Digital Collections – Fist drifts of FW, knots on Ulysses, gaze at eers and muzyroom stuffs. Mind your as goenin tip – (DH joyce books ms FW Ulysses BritLit )
on pinboard for January 10th, 2014 through January 11th, 2014
- Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow. – An interesting look at SWE on the digital cusp. – (DH language languagechange )
- New Liberal Arts // Snarkmarket & Revelator Press – Collection of short pieces – call them discussion starters – on redefining the lib arts as digital. PDF, and the html is here: http://snarkmarket.com/nla/new-liberal-arts.html – (book culture DH libed libarts2.0 )
- Works Cited: Humanities scholarship is incredibly relevant, and that makes people sad. – Interesting defense of more or less traditional humanities study in part by bringing in a mindset from trendy DH. The argument suggests that DH might be a way of dragging/sneaking humanities values (which – let's face it – challenge the capitalistic credo) back into the classroom. – (humanities DH )
- Fear and Loathing of the English Passive – Hey, FYC faculty. Get a read on. It ain't gramma you wanna call into play, it's rhetoric. What we see here is that, like many critiques of style (ponderous, heavy, lively! active! wonderful!) the critique of The Passive is a critique of rhetorical choices, not grammatical ones. Your move. – (linguistics Linguistic_change )
bookmarks for February 15th, 2013
- The changing complexity of congressional speech – Sunlight Foundation Blog – Linguistic and ideological analysis of public language change. – (Linguistic_change linguistics rhetoric )
- Comparing Facebook networks with the students – Overview and tools from jill/txt – (data_visualization facebook social_media )
- Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) « Scholarly Open Access – How to ID a potential predatory journal: the usual criteria of openness, names, dates, places, and association. – (OER library2.0 )
bookmarks for April 25th, 2010
- Internet Prof Scam TechCrunch – TechCrunch enacting blogging position for addressing scam. – (Blog Blogging Scam En3177 Journalism )
- Internet Prof Scam TechCrunch – TechCrunch enacting blogging position for addressing scam. – (Blog Blogging Scam En3177 Journalism )
- Who follows AP anyway? TechCrunch – – (Journalism Styleguide AP Newliteracy Linguistic_change )