Rex Sorgatz wrote last year about the concept of the nanocelebrity when he wrote "[t]he point is that renown is no longer the exclusive province of a select few. Nano-celebrity is there for the taking, if you really want it." I believe that he was talking about celebrity at the...
I really wanted to explore a few different avenues when starting this blog. The first one was to briefly verbalize my thoughts on this new channel of communication (microblogging/microcommunication/anything that uses XMPP to transmit information). I hoped this did not become a boring academic exercise only a few people would...
I want to apologize for not posting in the past couple of weeks. It seems that my life as a retail superstar has interfered with my ability to act as an academic, let alone a public academic. So, I might as well attempt to write something before the end of...
It was hard for me to start writing this week. Suffering from a combination of writer's block and a series of allergies made it tough to put words on the screen. However, there came from the Internet a significant amount of chatter that the writer's block or sickness didn't matter...
Ping.fm is just one example of a "modular distributed conversation" application designed to work with multiple social media services. (illustration/Courtney Engle Robertson) I've been using Ping.fm for almost a month and what I noticed that the service allows me to form my thoughts without worrying about how it may fit...
First of all, the Association of Internet Researchers held a fantastic conference this year at the IT University of Copenhagen. The building is indeed an architectural work of art and is a beautiful complement to the learning that occurs in this institution. I feel that sharing what I've learned during...
