In a Strange Land

I greatly enjoy studying military history. It's less pleasant looking at ongoing conflicts, because they represent failures of diplomacy...

Location: In front of a large screen image credit: U Penn Library Exhibit, " John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Compu...

Location: Front Porch Verizon's phone book landed on the porch a day or two ago, and only this morning did I get around to unwrappin...

Location: Perfect June Day, Not a Zombie in Sight What follows are a few reflections culled from a longer non-fiction piece I hope to pu...

Location: VWER Meeting I want to pull out a few choice remarks from a March Roundtable, where moderator Chris Robinson posed this provo...

Location: Faculty Office, Already Nodding Off Hamlet Au provoked his readers to crowdsource the meaning of Oz Linden's post on Thir...

Location: Real State of Concern If you think the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurt the Internet as we know it, I urge you to look at w...

image credit: Encyclopedia Virginia site , University of Virginia. Fredson Bowers, standing, works with Matthew Bruccoli  at a Hinman Collat...

Maddie's story was the people's choice in last week's competition. I'd not followed this story and, despite a lifetime of ...

  Location: VWER Meeting image courtesy of Sheila Webber's flickr photostream Back on Feb. 3, were pleased to host two Greg Moxness...

  Location: Certainty image credit: Raph Koster, of Ultima Online, Metaplace, and more, via Cory Doctorow's Flickr Photstream ...

Location: Doing That Blog Thing My students in the first-year seminar are spending one day tracking how they use a form of collaborative c...

Location: Viper Cockpit (I wish) hat tip to Hiro Pendragon, for announcing this on the SLED list image credit: Syr Villota's Flickr...

Location: Scarlet Tiers of The Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority Image credit: "Hangars Liquides" by Ka Rasmuson at Flickr ...

Location: Montclair State University Virtual Campus I've been setting out virtual furniture for a group of technologists from a major...

Location: Midpoint of Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis image credit: Barclay Shaw The students in my first-year seminar may not understa...

Location: Reading Tea Leaves Apple's die-hard faithful probably let out a collective moan today. Steve Jobs' decision to take medi...

Location: Using Google's System to Talk About It This post begins a series to coincide with my Spring 2011 course, Cyberspace: History...

Location: Fixing a Virtual Roof When I am social, in either my physical or virtual lives, it tends to be with folks as smart and, believe...

Location: Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum in Second Life Cry, "Infringement!" and let slip the dogs of copyright! This is q...