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Thanks for this really thoguhtful post! My $0.02 — would an economy based on doubt have something to do with a positive attitude towards failure [another class theme btw]?

Thanks Naomi, the westerners-deciding-what-the-rest-of -the-world-should-learn issue occurred to me too but I couldn’t figure out how to put it as eloquently as you did. I hope you bring in the XO if you can.

One interesting/creative use of PPT is for Artistic Performance Art Slideshows! Artists are subverting this medium for sure. I thought of this during our discussion, and an example is made by my […]

Buchanan seems to be suggesting with his “doctrine of placements,” that seeing relationships among any type of object is a critical skill of design — and to me, this is one way of looking at interdisciplinary […]

Thanks, Ria! I’m looking forward to some QT with Construction.

One quick aside related to the article — Dawson mentions the “dark side” of networks; how the majority of computing power is used for State and […]

Oh., and I re-themed and built out the website for the conference using a WordPress theme that works with BuddyPress. I also installed BP and realized that actually, I only need forums right now, so figured out […]

What I learned in class was to reduce the scope of my idea for a proof-of-concept, and the scope that was suggested was to just try building a Flickr API with some specific tags [street art, protest, TBD] and […]

Add-Art!! Thanks for these examples, Michael, seeing how Steve Lambert talks about failure, collaboration, and development from an artists’ perspective is helpful in deciding how to describe work as a non-coder.

Thanks Ria for the points about pushing students to go new places and to explore resources that *are* available to them. There’s an adventure narrative in there somewhere that must be exploitable for motivating […]

Congrats! I’m going to be honest–instead of encountering Lone Rangers, I got sent a cup of tea on my page by a random stranger a few weeks ago and it felt…welcoming. Here’s the code to share the same: […]

Good question, Janice: I’m not certain there’s ever been a democratic distribution of any applied pedagogy in the US [but I’m really wanting to be proven wrong] and as much as I constantly want to bring up class, […]

Also, this piece made me think about theorists Hardt & Negri, whose book Multitude CAE seem to presuppose. One quote from this book which I like a lot and that relates to CAE’s cellular suggestions in both theory […]

Amy, there are folks working to raise awareness about these issues — one organization I like a lot is the Center for Media Justice [http://centerformediajustice.org/] a decade-old org based in Oakland, who have a […]

These folks staged an occupation of the internet in Oct or Nov of 2011 with some javascript — http://fffff.at/occupy-the-internet/ — which placed a bottom-aligned moving .gif banner of people and creatures […]

Ria — your site has functional pages, readable text, links…you’ve got all the moving parts! Are people using it? Maybe you can make a white/black and a black/white one and A/B test it…oh wait, you can’t do […]

Ria — can you put up a URL to your site? We — at least I — will not judge the design!