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Think Thunk: Welcome to Swarthmore visitors
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Wednesday, January 26, 2005. Welcome to Swarthmore visitors. If you weren't in attendance at the talk that Tim Burke. And I gave at the faculty luncheon today, please forgive me for cluttering your RSS feed. At the talk today ,. Welcome. If you have any questions or comments about what you heard, I'll be glad to field them here. (I'm sure Tim will chime in if he feels he has anything to add.). Posted by EB at 1:00 PM. The short format can be quite unforgiving&...
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Think Thunk: October 2005
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Tuesday, October 18, 2005. Useitcom has weighed in: this blog sucks! Jakob Nielsen weighed in two weeks ago with his annual Top Ten Web Design Mistakes. Since we continue to work on the large-scale overhaul of our organization sight, I was feeling pretty high about that we'd managed to avoid 9 out of 10 of his mistakes, and the one we did violate, we did for good enough reason. Then today he published the Top Ten Design Mistakes for Weblog Usability. The Tippi...
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Think Thunk: July 2004
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Saturday, July 31, 2004. Having recently finished his Visual Explanations. And The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint. I was thrilled to have the opportunity on Thursday to attend Edward Tufte's one-day course: Presenting Data and Information. For those of you unfamiliar with Tufte, you owe it to yourselves to explore one (or more) of his texts. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Surely," I asked, "there's some price in aesthetics that we have to be wi...
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Think Thunk: Speed Bumps (on the Road of Application Migration)
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Thursday, February 17, 2005. Speed Bumps (on the Road of Application Migration). From the category of little things making a big difference. When I tried the installation on the Mac, though, I was not offered an option to convert my Eudora stuff. The only migration I was offered was from Netscape. (Somebody actually used Netscape as a mail client? Posted by EB at 12:30 AM. Eric, Do you use the spam filtering that the full version of Eudora provides? Ed-Tech To...
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Think Thunk: October 2004
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Tuesday, October 26, 2004. Calgon.manage my content! These web sites have a lot of data elements to manage. We recently performed a quick review of the types of data that each department was attempting to publish on its site. (You may download. Unless you count some cutting and pasting. I've been investigating for a while, but I've not yet heard the argument that convinces me of the right way to go. We'll be talking to some fancy schmancy consultants about...
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Think Thunk: Firefox conversion survival kit, tip #1
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Monday, February 07, 2005. Firefox conversion survival kit, tip #1. Back from a week of flu. Hackity-hackity, cough-cough-cough! A faculty friend just got the rundown on why he should switch his browser from I.E. to Firefox. Then he asked how he sets up Firefox to be his default browser. I had to do this myself only weeks ago, but I'd already forgotten. Posted by EB at 5:01 PM. Were not bad. Were just drawn that way. Welcome to Swarthmore visitors. They Might ...
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Think Thunk: Ed-Tech Toolbox Essential:
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Friday, January 21, 2005. Database Solutions with FileMaker Pro 7. On the one hand, it's a little bit worrisome that there are generations of scholars floating around who continue to be trained, from what I can tell, to approach their research with rather medieval methods for information storage, processing, and retrieval. On the other hand, it makes my job both fun and rewarding. Alas, to search and sort? The professor in this case knew her data very intimate...
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Think Thunk: February 2005
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Michael Gormon vs. The Blog People. Back in December, Michael Gormon griped about Google and its ambitions. More recently, he tore into blogs and the people who keep them. Since the Prexy-elect of the A.L.A. is weighing in with comments that fall somewhere between professional criticism and open mockery, and since they've in turn been picked up on the ultimate tech-salon, Slashdot. Gormon's remarks in both pieces, are, of course, g...
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Think Thunk: When all-campus communications go bad
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Monday, January 24, 2005. When all-campus communications go bad. 01202005. Republished with permission from the artist. For the longest time, the campus had a printed publication called the Weekly News. Which was mostly announcements and classifieds. To cut back on expenses, the publication went online-only, which pretty much killed it. Everybody I talked to says that they no longer read the Weekly News. Unless and until we're able to put forward a real campus...
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Think Thunk: April 2005
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Computing, academia, and academic computing. Tuesday, April 05, 2005. Blogger Van Winkle meets CMS. Where the heck did March go? So, yes, I've been insanely busy. But that's not the full story for why I've been on a month-long hiatus. Work has recently been taking me into areas that probably would be interesting to write about in play-by-play mode, but given my position, it clearly wasn't appropriate to discuss. That sounds much worse than it is. This is specifically NOT a critique of our clientele. ...
