Klara Prowisor, now 92 and living in Tel Aviv, escaped the gas chamber at Auschwitz by leaving her sick father behind as she jumped from a train in Belgium. Two decades later, she received a message from him. This 13-minute story is haunting and incredi ...
I was talking yesterday with a podcast group thinking about vlogging. One subject that came up, but that might not make its way into their episode is the impact of Facebook Live and Instagram Stories trying to poach YouTube's hold on vlogging. Given ...
Oscar Wilde once wrote that “Each man kills the thing he loves”. I don’t know exactly what Wilde meant by that, but our collective attention and obsession, amplified by the speed and intensity of the internet & social media, tends to ruin the things we lo ...
7 10/2 Sketch 6: Data viz from everyday life 10/3 Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck. Read all of chapter 2 "Harbingers of the Holodeck," including its update (pp 33-79), plus the update for chapter 1, "Lord Burleigh's Kiss" (pp 29-31) and the ...
Tuesday of next week, we'll be reading an excerpt from Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace and then on Wednesday, Murray herself will be giving a lecture in the library about how her argument holds up now 20 years ...
There has been a dramatic increase in seismic activity in the United States in the past ten years, some of which is caused by fracking but much more of which is the result of waste water from traditional oil and gas drilling; this waste water is rei ...
Apropos of the Nicholas Carr reading for Thursday, our data conversation today, and the data viz assignment coming up, it seems worthwhile to pass along a post I just saw about children and marshmallows. Are you familiar with the famous marshmallow test? ...
6 9/25 Sketch 5: Music Mix Have a /code/ subfolder in your class subdomain created and load a basic landing page with index.html and style.css files. 9/26 Guest: Katie Rawson Dylan Matthews in Vox “These colleges are better than Harvard at maki ...
I promised a screencast video showing you how to upload files onto your Reclaim Hosting server, which I am embedding below. I didn’t really deal with the coding itself, but focused instead on getting the file published once you have them. ...
5 9/18 Sketch 4: Triptych 9/19 Podcast graphics & intro, data gathering, Creative Commons, 9/21 Writing Online, chpt 1 “Hello World” 9/22 Podcasts 1 & 2 6 9/25 Sketch 5: Music Mix I've made some changed to the schedule ...
