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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-01-30

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  • sooo ready for a new phone… but waiting, waiting… G2, Pre, G1, iPhone? #
  • just found Lifestream. It aggregates from many sources including Twitter *and* Google Reader, the two things I use the most! #
  • hmm… looks like if I set the time to update too close to current time, it resets it to 1 am… I just set it to 10am, so 1.5 hours til … #
  • maybe it isn’t set to Pacific time… #
  • bah! #
  • If all worked, the blog should now get weekly digest of my tweets every Friday at 8:30 am… 12 min countdown to see if it worked! #
  • trying out Twitter Tools. This tweet was made from my WordPress admin page… #
  • messing around with twitter updates to my blog. #
  • meeting Robin for lunch on the Ave. #
  • reading Steven Fry’s latest blog post on Twitter. 🙂 #
  • needs sleep. #
  • tried to check out Metaplace but it doesn’t fit on my netbook’s screen resolution. 🙁 #
  • reading Lipsitz, the Possessive Investment in Whiteness. Depressing stuff. #
  • reading before class. #
  • in the Cafe on the Ave, waiting for ride home… (trying to twit when I remember but its so sporadic as to be meaningless…) #
  • at Finn MacCool’s for a bit… come join me! #
  • Happy new year! #
  • reading a ton of papers today… transfer, marx and engels, activity theory… #

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Testing out two new tools

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Twitter Tools and Lifestream

Twitter Tools will hopefully post a weekly digest of my tweets.

Lifestream does tweets and any RSS feed, but it looks like it can only do daily digests, not weekly. I am interested in it, though, because I use Google Reader quite a bit and Lifestream can grab my shared items (the same stuff on my right sidebar). I want to move away from using the sidebar for the display of these shared items because I have a hunch that most of my site visitors actually just read my feed.

Anyway, both plugins are activated right now. I’ll give it a couple of days and decide which to ditch…

Life, web 2.0

blog posts

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So, should I be converting batches of my twitter updates and google reader shared items into daily or weekly blog posts on this site, or would that be too spammy?

Are you all (all 2 of you) interested in that at all, or should I restrict my posts to original thoughts and writings and items of particular significance? (And we all know that means I only post about once a week…)

Life, web 2.0

Inauguration event featuring all sorts of new media

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On Tuesday, I watched the inauguration at a local cafe (The Aster Coffee Lounge) with some friends. Robin commented afterwards that it was amazing how many different forms of media were present.

We had a live stream of the event from the web being projected onto an inflatable screen. This was their workaround for a USB antenna thing that wasn’t working. The stream kept stuttering, though, with periodic stops for buffering. So we turned off the audio and were listening to the NPR live coverage while watching the video stream. But the video lagged about 5 seconds behind the audio, so that was kind of odd, especially when Roberts and Obama had their repair moment during the swearing in.

There was at least one live blogger at the event, at least one twitterer, and people texting and calling each other on their cell phones.

King 5 news, a local TV station, was there, as was print media in the form of Ballard News Tribune. Since I ordered one of the Aster’s special Inauguration Waffles, King 5 shot me taking a bite, and Ballard News took a photo, too. Here’s a photo Erik took:

After the inauguration ceremony, King 5 interviewed me really quickly. (Maybe because I was the only Asian guy in the place… They also interviewed the only Black guy in the place…) I said something like it was prophetic to have happened the day after MLK, Jr. Day and that I hoped that the nation took seriously Obama’s call for collective responsibility and action.

And, of course, there were the multiple sub-groups of people interacting with each other through verbal talk.

Life, web 2.0

new rash(er) of spam this week…

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hit with about 90 spam comments in under an hour on Wednesday… Not sure why, but I deleted them…

Academia, Games Research, Misc., web 2.0

Working on paper revision today

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I’ll post the draft when I get a chance. It was originally a paper on expertise development in WoW, submitted to Transformative Works and Culture, a new online journal. I didn’t have time to get into it as much as I wanted and turned the paper into one that highlighted ethnographic methods and how they were useful. I am now revising it, however, to be re-reframed back to being about expertise development, on the advise of the editors. Makes sense, and there’s plenty material… It’s just sort of haphazard now, though…

But anyway, I ended up cutting this paragraph out and thought it should be saved somewhere:

Part of the meaning players derived from playing World of Warcraft depended heavily on body performance. Playing successfully was not just a cognitive function but required experiential knowledge in a sort of physical sense—both the real aching, tired wrists and back after a long session of playing and the virtual movement and actions on-screen. For example, I experienced finding the “groove” for my character, hitting a particular tempo with the activation of his abilities that everything seemed to “flow” perfectly. While I don’t think “flow theory” (Csíkszentmihályi 1990) applies to most of the game, “flow” is an apt description of the perfect rhythm I was feeling and the muscle memory I was developing.

Academia, web 2.0

So pretty… maps of networked learning

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Will Richardson at Weblogg-ed has a nice summary post about some other people’s posts on the future of classrooms and learning, including highlights from one by Bill Farren: Weblogg-ed » Networked Learning: Why Not?

What caught my eye was the pretty visual representations from Farren. eg:

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Twitter and google reader

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I’m finding myself using Twitter more often these days, doing status updates rather than longer blog posts… and since I also just share items I find on the web using google reader, I am not really posting cool web stuff I find, either. Most of the stuff I’ve been posting lately has either been exceptionally cool in some way (completely subjective of course) or stuff that isn’t itself an RSS feed, so I can’t share it with google…

Anyway, if you want to see my status updates, you’ll have to either get a Facebook account and friend me or follow me on Twitter (username: McDanger).

And if you want to see the stuff I’m sharing through google, you’ll either have to visit this site and look at the embedded shared items gadget I have (on the right) or get a google account and start using reader yourself (and add markdangerchen as a contact). The latter method is probably more in line with my personal practices… I mean I don’t really visit other people’s blogs or news sites anymore, I just read their feeds using my preferred app, and you should too!

Long story, short: this is my blog post that semi-apologizes for lack of updates.

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Wordle!

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Check out Wordle, a cool website that lets create a word cloud of urls or documents!

(via Lucas)

Here’s my blog’s cloud:

Misc., web 2.0

Some states already have more early vote-by-mail turnout than their turnout in previous elections!

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And… it seems to be coming from states with higher percentage of black voters!

FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: The Black Turnout Surge, Already In Progress