[…] 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.
Latest Bookmarks
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.
Latest Bookmarks
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 […]

Taking a mental health break from spending 24-7 thinking about college marketing. Back soon.

It’s time for a pep rally folks. It will be opinionated, so if you have thin skin put on some fire-retardent clothing. First off, a little sharing (which we’re all about here at Whole Wheat College).
Last Spring I went to Orlando for the php|tek conference. It was the first time the conference […]

Richard Blomgren, the Dean of Admission here at Warren Wilson College, participated in a radio program “The State of Things” that focused on higher education in North Carolina. From their site:
The State of Higher Education: From the pages of the New York Times to the cover of Time, colleges and universities in North Carolina […]

The new students are arriving this morning. I wore one of the shirts that have been given out to peer group leaders and the residence folks. As I was walking across campus from my house, I tried to make that extra effort to be helpful and personable. I remember my first day […]

So there are two conferences happening this fall and I need to pick one. One is in Philly and one in Rochester, both are aimed specifically at web professionals in higher ed. They are:
Stamats Interactive Marketing Strategies
&
Higher Ed Wed Dev 2006: Collective Intelligence
They both look pretty good, although the Stamats presentations do look […]

[…] 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.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ - Blog of Danah Boyd. A PhD student studying privacy and the internet.
http://greenteaicecream.co.uk/ - “Social Value and the Social Web”
http://www.fastcompany.com/ - Interesting blog associated with Fast Company magazine.

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. […]

When Time magazine named “You” as its person of the year in 2006, it was a ham-handed attempt to salute “user-generated content” as the driving force behind Web 2.0. Last year MySpace and YouTube commanded $580 million and $1.6 billion, respectively, because regular folks participate in the grand techno-democratic experiment, baring their souls to the […]