Posted in 3424, 3423, 3425, 3426, 3428, 3427, 3422, 3421, and, my, a, 2754, 3420, 3256, General on May 29th, 2008 Comments Off
Given my love of metaphor, juxtaposibility, and “mappingness” (to say nothing of my love of oddball neologisms), I have to report on a particularly intriguing juxtaposition I found for my talk at the 2008 CHEMA meeting in Louisville last week. As I was finishing my prep for the talk, I’d pretty much settled on beginning […]
Posted in 3189, 3190, 3188, 3187, 3186, 3191, 3192, 3196, 3195, 3194, 3193, 2751, 2754, session, the, educause, brian, inspiring, and, 3028, 2898, a, 2831, General on Feb 7th, 2008 Comments Off
At EDUCAUSE 2007, outgoing President Brian Hawkins delivered heartfelt and inspiring farewell address in a special session on lessons of leadership. It was pure Brian, and it was marvelous. At one point in the talk, Brian gave us the stern warning to “avoid incrementalism.” I tweeted that moment, and Chris Lott, a blogger of tremendous […]
Posted in 3046, 3047, 3045, 3044, 3043, 3048, 3049, 3053, 3052, 3051, 3050, 2766, 2754, and, today, students, the, an, 2742, 2752, a, 2757, 2756, General on Jan 24th, 2008 Comments Off
Courtesy of the University of Mary Washington Computer Science Department, I and an SRO crowd of students, faculty, and staff got to hear a fascinating talk today by Dr. Eric Miller (CSAIL, MIT). There’s no questioning the depth, intelligence, or intensity of his commitment to a data web; he made the best and most inclusive […]