Tag: public academic

Writing for Geek Bar DLC

Writing for Geek Bar DLC

In addition to working on my SxSW proposals for 2016, two conference presentations, and the various other academic pieces I written in the past six weeks, I have also been hired in by Geek Bar DLC to be a quasi “academic-in-residence” and write a series of articles. This assignment was kicked off by my article that I wrote …

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Happy End of 11111011000

Happy End of 11111011000

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 the year. As my relatives …

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In Defense of Distributed Conversation Applications

In Defense of Distributed Conversation Applications

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 into the structure of most of the social networking sites. However, there has been a backlash against the use of such a “megaphone” application like Ping.fm. The …

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