http://lisaspangenberg.com/it Useful tools, sites, references, and opinionated commentary about technology, with particular attention to Instructional Technology and the Humanities, from the perspective of a Digital Medievalist. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:45:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My friend Dawn also works in IT. We both have had badges to wear at work, and we both attend conferences, where you also wear badges. Mostly the badges are on fiber-lanyards, and whether you're at a jeans-and-t-shirt SF con, or IT conference, you look like a dork. And if ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2008/08/16/beaded-badge-lanyards/ James D. Macdonald, SF author and exceedingly experienced online moderator (remember Yog Sysop? That's him) offers some rules for moderation under the heading: Here’s what moderators need to know: a) Sure, there’s freedom of speech. Anyone who wants it can go start their own blog. On Yog’s board, Yog’s whim ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2008/07/31/yogs/ Tor, my favorite fantasy/sf publisher, has just gone public with their new Web site, one that has been re-designed with community engagement with content as a core principle. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, an editor at Tor, and one of the founding bloggers at Making Light, has a fabulous essay on blogging. In ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2008/07/23/blogging-as-conversation/ I've copied the following, with permission, from a post on an online forum. The original poster is a professional educator and adminstrator in a graduate program which relies on online instruction. I think the post asks some good questions. It will come as no surprise to anyone here that the biggest ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2008/07/21/239/ Yes, I’ve changed blogging tools. Again. I began this blog in January of 2002, using Radio Userland; I eventually moved to MovableType, and now, I’m using WordPress. I’ve also changed the location; I was over here, at digitalmedievalist.com, but I’m finally realizing I need to distinguish the scholarly me from the geek me, ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2008/02/06/hello-world-again/ According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Google is no longer accepting AdWords ads from mills: Academic paper-writing services, or "paper mills," will no longer be able to buy search terms in the Google AdWords program, and thus their ads will no longer pop up in the "sponsored links" sections of ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2007/05/23/google-no-longer-accepting-termpaper-mill-ads/ I've posted already about the hateful way Kathy Sierra was treated by other bloggers. The reaction has been interesting. Yesterday Chris Locke and Kathy each posted, collaboratively, their takes on the specific incidents, and the larger issue of hate speech and threats in the blogosphere. The core issues are ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2007/04/03/online-communities-women-and-misogyny/ My friend Dawno alerted me to this story about anti-plagiarism service Turnitin.com being sued for copyright violation by four students. Turnitin is a service contracted by universities and schools. Faculty submit student papers for analysis by Turnitin which compares the text to papers stored in an internal database and to ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2007/04/03/turnitin-sued/ Blogger and UI expert, Kathy Sierra, had to cancel her talk at the Etech conference, because of really really nasty death threats, and threats of sexual assault. You can read about it here. There are fairly well-known "A-list" bloggers skirting the outskirts of this. And there are certainly quite a ... http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2007/03/27/death-threats-are-not-ok/ Take Control Ebooks is having a sale! http://lisaspangenberg.com/it/2007/02/09/take-control-ebooks-monthly-sale-1/