Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
Revving up Your RSS (Re-post)
3 Comments Published by Mark Marino September 16th, 2009 in Features, Off Topic, Criticism, Software.Ah, the Internet. Gregory Zobel ran this wonderful interview about managing your RSS feeds with WRT-amigo David Parry (of Academic Hack) on the now-defunct “Adjunct Advice.” Unfortunately, that “long tail” can sometimes be severed, so to help it grow back, we are reposting that interview here. This marks the second […]
SOS Classroom: Crowdsourcing Education
5 Comments Published by Mark Marino July 18th, 2009 in Features, Off Topic, Social.At the end of the school year, LAUSD, the second largest school district in the U.S., canceled summer school for K-8 students. Reports estimate 225,000 students affected, but surely this is an understatement because every child is affected when children in their class have not received the instruction they need. This summer, my […]
A Novel Protagonist with a Health Meter?
6 Comments Published by Mark Marino December 9th, 2008 in HCTI, CYOA, Features, Off Topic, games, Criticism, Fictionality.I Love You, Beth Cooper was described to me as a John Hughes film as a book. It has the nerdy protagonist. The unreachable cheerleader (slated to be played by the quintessential cheerleader, Hayden Panettiere). The wacky friend and loads of comic violence thanks to Larry Doyle, writer for The Simpsons (and […]
Bunk Satirizes Wikis and Los Angeles Times
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino April 9th, 2008 in hyperfic, Features, Off Topic, Text Art, Publications, Social, Multi-Modal.The 10th anniversary issue of Bunk Magazine is online with a new issue, featuring:
Los Wikiless Timespedia
The premise: The Los Angeles Times, to save its flagging enterprise, has relaunched itself in an entirely wiki format as The Los Wikiless Timespedia.
LA Times Switches to All-Wiki Format in 11th-Hour Battle for Life
In a desperate attempt to stop the involuntary leakage of its readership, the slightly less-old gray lady has tried the Depends of new media, embracing a technology that almost spelt its d-e-a-t-h in bright blue hyperlinked Arial.
The Folksonomic Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino February 8th, 2008 in Features, Off Topic, News, Social.[Updated 2/9/2008, see Suggestion Box below]
Before one brick for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture has been laid, its online instantiation is already being constructed by those who preserve and people that history. Surely, this is not the first museum to use a website to allow people to shape […]