Visualize the Twitter Feed at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Fest

» 13 June 2011 » In Events, Social Web » No Comments

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This is our 10th year at the Jazz Fest. Amazing lineup  - with the “club pass” you can see it all. Here’s a visualizer of the Twitter feed following the hashtags #xrijf and #rocjazz.

Now that the festival is over the twitter feed has died out.
Here’s a screen shot.

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Innovations in Teaching and Learning: Top Down or Bottom Up?

» 14 March 2011 » In Commentary, Web 2.0 » 3 Comments

Corporate music, publishing and film were transformed from below. Do we expect education to be spared the forces of the digital revolution? Unlike the vanishing local newspaper, schools won’t disappear entirely. After all, someone has to watch the kids. While it may be difficult to replace the custodial function of schools, I suspect that education’s “top-down” approach will eventually be breached. Or perhaps life will just become an “open book test” and we’ll no longer notice how our information moves through it.

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Five Reasons Why I Blog

» 05 March 2007 » In Commentary » No Comments

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Blogs compensate for my lack of originality. They allow me to easily synthesize content from different sources and present it in a new context. As W. Somserset Maugham said, “…Quotation…is a serviceable substitute for wit.” (See, I borrowed again. ) That why I call my blog Copy / Paste. – and here’s 4 more reasons why I blog.

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