Circle gets the Square: Early Thoughts on Google+
So, like, it’s Facebook but it isn’t owned by Facebook? It’s sort of like Twitter, except it’s linked to your search history? I’ve spent a few days playing around with Google+, the so-called...
View ArticleW. A-S-H. I-N-G. T-O-N, baby… DC: Thoughts on Remembrance and Ruins.
A few months back I found myself wandering the Mall in Washington, DC, accompanied by my informative and delightful tour guides. It was my first trip to the city, and despite having ‘seen’ much of DC...
View Article(Sometimes) Good Enough in Practice, but NEVER Good Enough in Theory
After a week or two of venting, ranting, and general stewing, I’ve collected a few of my thoughts on the recent HST referendum here in British Columbia. Please note: this is not about the HST in and of...
View ArticleIt’s the Corporations, MAN: Thoughts on Taxes and the State
This post is inspired by the recent HST referendum, as well as the horrific spectacle of the Republican Party nomination process in the US. I’ve been wrapping my head around a series of questions first...
View ArticleFancy Book Learnin’ in Eastern Canada: Notes from Congress 2012
Ok, so apparently I haven’t posted here in a month. My adoring public (all 8 of you) must be upset. I spent last week in Ontario, attending various conferences and generally schmoozing with...
View ArticleMore Eastern Book Learnin’: What I Actually DO for a Living
Two posts in one day? Has he gone mad? Here is a second paper that I presented in Kitchener-Waterloo last week. This one summarizes three empirical case studies and the methodological strands...
View ArticleM.F. on Human Rights and Action
Spending my day in a library, surrounded by various notes and books I’ve collected over the past few years, trying to better articulate my own uses of ‘genealogy’ in my research. I’m hoping to post...
View ArticleSummer Lovin’, Had Me A Blast: My Vacation with Michel
It occurs to me that I still have a blog, and that I haven’t posted anything in weeks… I thought about a ‘Lance Armstrong is Innocent’ post, but decided at the last minute NOT to share the inane...
View ArticleShameless Hustle: Scenes Research CFP
Thought I’d share this here, as it’s something I’ve been involved with for a little while now… For those interested in ‘scene’ as a research tool: Call for Papers Scene Again: Social Life, Research,...
View ArticleOn The Vanishing of James Rennie
Not dead, just resting. I’ve been ignoring this site for the past several weeks, as I’ve been rather busy putting my entire life into boxes, moving those boxes, and then unpacking them in a new place....
View ArticleHaters Gonna Hate: Thoughts on Lanier’s “Who Owns The Future?”
Jaron Lanier’s new book came out last week, and if the reviews online are any indication, I may be the only person on the planet who actually READ the damn thing from cover to cover. The Globe and Mail...
View ArticleWhat’s the Deal with McLuhan’s Laws of Media, Am I Right? Thoughts on...
I’m teaching first-year Communication Studies again this semester. This course is definitely one of my favourites, as it gives me a lot of room to make material my own (something we as sessional...
View ArticleI Frickin’ Love (being deeply ambivalent about) Science
This post is my attempt to sort out various ideas and arguments that have been rattling around my head for the past several weeks. As with so many similar posts, this is not an ATTACK on anyone. In...
View ArticleGet the Power-Up and Win the Game! On Gamification and Education
<in Cartman voice> YOU GUYS! YOU GUYS! <pauses to catch breath> Guys… It happened. I didn’t think it would happen, but it happened. I attended a pro-d session on ‘Gamification’ and it was...
View ArticleBlinded By Science (… Science!) A few scattered thoughts on knowledge,...
I recently picked up a copy of Ellen Rose’s “On Reflection: An Essay on Technology, Education, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-First Century” thanks to a recommendation from a colleague I see...
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