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December 28, 2013
Lol My Thesis
After seeing “lolmythesis.com” come through my Twitter feed twice in one day, I knew this was a site I had to check out. The website is very simple, “summing up years of work in one sentence.” The About page states that the site was started by an undergraduate student looking for a way to distract herself from her own thesis. The site contains a collection of one-sentence summaries from undergraduate …
December 16, 2013
More than your (past) employer may see what you post on Twitter
This is great: this pub just fired the head chef but forgot he was running their twitter: https://t.co/p5xbA0X4Yx — James Bloodworth (@J_Bloodworth) December 16, 2013 As a personal rule, I do not follow any of my students on Twitter (even if current students follow me), unless they are doing undergraduate research projects with me (I find Twitter a great way to connect with them, especially when we are at conferences, …
November 25, 2013
Is a parody copyright infringement or fair use?
Trending these days is the GoldieBlox video, a clever video with three young girls that set up their own Rube Goldberg machine, showing that girls are just as smart and clever with innovative design and curiosity. And the background music is just a clever, a re-do of the Beastie Boys song “Girls,” recorded with younger voices and new girl-friendly lyrics. GoldieBox video (unfortunately, the original video has been taken down …
January 17, 2013
The Up-Goer Five text editor – explaining my geoscience research
Although it’s a crazy-busy day today, I couldn’t resist taking this challenge that came across my Twitter feed! For the full explanation, please visit the Highly Allochthonous blog posting on Explaining geoscience using only the 10 hundred most common words….
September 26, 2011
Tweeting Haiku
This 2010 NPR story titled Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time and 2009 NPR story titled Twitterers Message by Haiku remind me of my own haiku/Twitter experience earlier this year. I even created a Storify about it,…