Latest Thinking
My current mind waves related to JAG-wire. Find all of them at JAG-wire.blogspot.com.
Shaking Up the Blog
10.21.2008 @ 7:05 PM
So in the past this blog has been intended to serve as a dynamic introduction for my personal-professional website, JAG-wire.net. I've tried to make large posts periodically, written in a verbose and clever (if not mildly nonsequetor) style, illustrating my 'faffing about' in Graduate school. Unfortunately I write these sorts of entertaining blurbs best when I have enough time to really consider them and they're most often a sort of report-in newsletter kind of format with a few questions here or there. After going several months without really hunkering down to chisel out a post I decided it was time to retool the format. As a preamble I've been writing down little snippets of ideas that come by and flirt with me throughout the day. They're all things I'd like to write about but wouldn't exactly fit in a personal-professional blog that's meant to showcase my development in academe.
But let's face it, nobody reads something so stagnant and it doesn't do me much good to write it. So from now on I'm going to start posting up fragments, humor, curiosities, and drama that intersect with my mind. It'll be notably more personal, more offensive, and probably a lot more interesting. So long as the wrong professors don't find their way to it I should be okay... and if they do, oh well, I'm not really interested in hiding who I am.
Excitment Refresh
10.27.2008 @ 3:52 AM
So I had the chance to go visit an amazing childhood friend tonight and we hung out talking... he's probably one of only 3 or 4 people in the Universe that I can do that with - sit down without food or activity at hand and talk with endlessly, it's a comfort I've learned to cherish. Anyway as we were talking the topic came to his excited interest in a girl he's met in the Quaker group he belongs to who sounds unreasonably cool (she wrote a book! and has a had a really interesting and deviant life). He was thinking about telling her that he'd like to see her outside of a Quaker meeting sometime, etc... effectively ask her out. As we were talking I brought up the possibility that she could be seeing someone already, and Tom had thought about it but didn't know. But what I remember most is just how joyful he was about the excited possibility of a person he likes - an opportunity, a connection, a thrill, the prospect of so much happiness!
I didn't know this sort of thing still happened these days.
Recent Posts
- Facebook Friends, False Connections and Social Norms
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I toss up the footprints of my most recent activities here on the home page for easy tracking.
Puffin'Snuff Returns!
I figured it was about time for the yearly Puffin'Snuff update! Not only is this one about about three times as long it's had a full production crew and some high-flying theatrics! The film (picture) techniques were considerably improved and we even added a new character...
- YouTube (low quality)
- Flash Video (high quality)
- Download HD (1080, avi)
Introducing : the Community Informatics Projects Sandbox
I finally found the time to put up my new website for community informatics! Community informatics is an area of library and information science that's about helping communities (especially disadvantaged ones) achieve their needs with information technology (or information processes). I wasn't really sure how to organize all of the different things that would go there so I really just structured it literally around what I do with CI: website development (it's a handy non-University testing platform and I can host community resources freely there), publications and research, and the CI club. The site will feel a little bit like JAG-wire in that it reports on all of my latest activities - but just those related to CI.
Much Amuck on the World-Wide-Wibley
I've actually been spending a lot of time on work websites... more information to follow.
- Community Informatics Initiative [actual] [preview 1] [preview 2]
- Community Informatics Multimedia Archive [actual] [beta concept]
- Youth Community Informatics
- JAG85.com Redux(concept)
Freeze Tag with the Facebook Project
I've put the Facebook Project on hold for this semester as I begin to dabble in Community Informatics, which surprise, surprise has little to do with Facebook research. I did find a way to fit a paper on Facebook into my distributed knowledge class recently, however. Jenny Ryan (another FBP hobnob) is also busy transitioning between jobs but you can still follow her blog; she's currently researching for danah boyd. As such we haven't had all that much new material there but Eric Gilbert expects to release a very cool paper on Facebook and Social Capital sometime soon.
For now we suggest you make use of this website as a resource. The wiki could still use your help. Jeff might even post up additional interview transcriptions if enough people find them useful.
Inside of Me Lurks an Artist...
A Collaborative Drawing, part II!
We finished the first collaborative Drawing Project, which is now hanging in my living room. As we've now moved into a new apartment we need a new project, and we named this one in memory of our friend Alex Herder, who has left us for far-away lands.
A Wallflower
Is in process, pictures to follow.
