Posted by: kegill on: 29 January 2007
Once upon a time, I’d heard of TED — I’m certain of it. But it wasn’t until last week, when a COM300 student suggested I watch a clip featuring Ken Robinson, that I (re)discovered it. I’ve now sub’ed to TedTalks and am grateful for my fall 2006 video iPod splurge. I’ll be checking out 2008 [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 25 January 2007
Links and notes for webcast to Leadership Spartanburg (SC), 25 January 2007.
Posted by: kegill on: 22 January 2007
I’m not exactly sure where to start with this … but it seems to be a great example of media convergence, long tail economics, the power of internet media …. and the problems facing institutions like record companies. Since I can’t figure out how to start, I think I’ll just write chronologically.
Warning: adult content (SNL-like) [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 19 January 2007
Engadget reports, in a “non-scientific sampling,” that Sony has disabled Zune’s song sharing feature for “popular artists by Zunerama and Zune Thoughts.” They go on: “it looks like it’s roughly 40-50 percent of artist that fall under this prohibited banner, and the worst news is that there’s no warning that a song might be unsharable [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 17 January 2007
I feel a little bit better about my struggle to find a SmartPhone that I’m willing to live with for a year or so. That’s because I expect by 2008 I will have migrated to Apple’s iPhone. But my (ahem) six-year old phone has a stone-cold dead battery, and I’m just not gonna put more [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 17 January 2007
Gack! It’s been a month since I posted here. In the interim, we had the windstorm from hell … resulting in a nightmare experience with Delta on our holiday tirp to the Bahamas. Seattle has been locked in the grip of Arctic air fronts and ice and snow and sub-20 weather … until now. Two [...]
Posted by: kegill2 on: 16 January 2007
Students in COM300 create a PPT presentation as part of their role as a discussion leader. This tutorial (part of the COM300 website) walks students through creating a basic powerpoint presentation and saving it as HTML. [HTML version required Winter 2007 only, not Spring.] In addition, students learn how to [...]