[...] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.

I am taking a hiatus for the remainder of the summer to finish some hulking, be-fanged programming projects. Once those are complete, I am going to “take off the training wheels” on erelevant–redesign and revision it around a broader central theme. It will be less personal, less inflammatory and more topical and content-oriented. [...]

Friday Reports give a rundown of what I did over the week. It’s a window into the process here at WWC as well as a way for me to keep some records.
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The biggest development this week was the addition of the Podcast Crew as a subdivision of the Web Crew. Discussion started early [...]

VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT
Warren Wilson College invites applications for the position of Vice President for Advancement, with a starting date of July 1, 2007.
Position Summary: Reporting to the President, the Vice President for Advancement leads an aggressive fundraising/development operation and supervises the Office of College Relations. She or he must have the qualities and experience [...]

Friday Reports give a rundown of what I did over the week. It’s a window into the process here at WWC as well as a way for me to keep some records.
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I did not consider this week particularly productive. At work, the upcoming Presidential Inauguration and several tangential political issues related to the [...]

Friday Reports give a rundown of what I did over the week. It’s a window into the process here at WWC as well as a way for me to keep some records.
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Last week was swallowed largely by loose ends and everyday concerns.

Friday Reports give a rundown of what I did over the week. It’s a window into the process here at WWC as well as a way for me to keep some records.
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This week I have focused most of my efforts on continuing preparations for work on a simple PHP MVC Framework to support [...]

Warren Wilson College recently underwent a change in leadership with a new President. At the same time, the exciting changes happening all over the internet have finally managed to trickle into higher ed. The many projects underway made Karine Joly, in her University Business article, declare 2006 “the year of the redesign.” [...]

I’m scheduled this afternoon to attend a pre-conference seminar. From the conference website:
Breaking the Frame of Web Design
Presented by Fritz McDonald, Creative Director
In terms of innovation, the Web is opening up possibilities in a way it hasn’t done since the great dot.com age. Yet, in spite of these gains, many Web sites are only [...]

I’ve arrived in Philly. I left this morning, boarding one of those tiny turbo-prop planes with seats made of concrete and about as much foot room as a VW beetle full of clowns.

(The Swannanoa Valley from the air. Warren Wilson is in the middle-ground, left edge of the photo hidden by clouds.)
After the delayed [...]

From ‘A Softer World’

There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.

Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…

I HAVE A MYSPACE ACCOUNT!!1!