Robin Sloan, on generation vs recitation. Lots to think about. A specter is haunting the internet, and I think it’s even scarier than the challenge of getting people to pay money. It’s the challenge of getting them to pay attention. I think it’s only going to get worse—which is to say, better, because we as [...]
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Seth’s Blog: The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations. The answer is simple enough to surprise you.
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Over at the New Yorker, George Packer has an interesting and important essay about social media and its effects on culture, particularly the news. “Any journalist who cheerleads uncritically for Twitter is essentially asking for his own destruction,” he says. I’m not sure he’s right about that, but there are lots of hidden costs we [...]
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Al Kauffman and I recently presented a workshop on the job search strategies, focused on the idea that you aren’t looking for your next job, you are actually looking for the job after that. Here is the presentation
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Part of a guest lecture in our intro to communication course. The topic was writing as career and vocation. This is the last eight minutes of the video, looking at the influence of their fathers on three writers: Zinsser, Leax and me.
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[The following essay was excerpted from a presentation on "Writing as Vocation" at the student media convention sponsored by College Media Advisers in Spring 09, New York City. See related presentation here.] Why do you write? Whatever your answers, they tend to break out along two dimensions: the esthetic and the persuasive. On the esthetic [...]
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George Herbert Mead believed the world we live in is mostly in our head, and that language frames not only how we perceive things but what we are able to perceive. Mead, who influenced many prominent thinkers in communication and sociology today, believed that symbolic naming is the basis of human society, and in fact [...]
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a wired classroom
