“What does it look like, this orbital ball from the fringes of the Milky Way? What does it feel like, this orbital ball from the fringes of the Milky Way…. There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn’t….Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes…..If the rain has to separate from itself, does it say, ‘Pick out your cloud?’….When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don’t touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?”
~Tori Amos
I had the pleasure last year of being asked to produce a radio drama for WONB-FM as the conclusion of an Acting for the Camera workshop hosted by the Department of Theatre Arts and taught by Malcolm Raeburn Read from the University of Salford's School of Arts and Media. All of...
One of the traditions from the old site was to give an end-of-the-year review that would focus of the issues surrounding computer-mediated communication, cyberculture, or some tangent of those themes and what I thought might happen in the upcoming year regarding those concerns. I thought it would be a good...
One of the first orders of business I had after finishing my Master's degree work was to start writing more. Producing academic articles and essays was an area of weakness. It was difficult to synthesize and analyze theories and apply those thoughts to what was happening in the world. I...
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...
The "Fountain of Wisdom" from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila seems like a good visual metaphor for wisdomatic. (Wikipedia photo/T0p 16) I’m trying to create a new word in the hope that I can make it the Webster’s Word of the Year for 2012. That word is wisdomatic. I’m...
Over the past 15 years of dealing with online communication and the web, in particular, there have been three reoccurring themes in my interactions online. The first being that when a new service comes out or a new channel of online communication is released, I want to be on it....
It’s been more than a decade since I’ve been in front of a microphone at a radio station. So when WMCO asked me to come back for their 50th anniversary, I was happy to do so. The station put together a radio drama to celebrate the occasion and I was...
During the summer of 1996, I experience my first taste of freedom. Since I recently graduated high school, I had the summer to myself. There was no track or cross country practice. There was no band rehersals. It would be three months till I found a job. I had no...
Being an education professional in the field of computer design, I have always told students to back up their work, or else they may lose everything they’ve been working on for the last class period. I also tell students to back up their work in at least two locations online,...
Scott Brown wrote a humorous article in Wired Magazine regarding how our generation would deal with depression the likes that have only been seen by our great-grandparents during the "Great Depression." The question that comes from this half-hearted look into the future is what are we doing to prepare for...
