Last night’s ds106 Listening Party was a blast & a half, and I was happy to see the idea taken in with such open arms. It’s a whole lot of nothing without the ds106 Radio misfits – can I call you misfits? How about heroes? – and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Knowing that a ...

One positive side effect of watching this year’s NCAA Div. 1 basketball tournament by my lonesome – being surrounded this season not by rabid college ball fans, but rather quite nice, regular folk – is that I’ve taken to watching the first half of most games on mute while doing other, more productive things. Like ...

Hey, it’s time for a shameless plug! Tonight I’ll be premiering myself on ds106 radio with a nice little program I’m calling The Judges 5:27 Fine Music Radio Hour, Live! After much haranguing and coddling and loving, much-needed assistance from Jim, I think I’ve got the routine down and I’m ready to make a go ...

I’ve come to understand over time that there are two main tributaries of bloggers: those who write to document, and those who write to write. These can also be known as writing to think & writing to be read – the former serves as a personal thought-sifter, and the latter as a public product. I ...

The ever-brilliant McSweeney’s today put up one of the funnier evaluations of the generation gap in today’s digital age: “A 12-Year-Old Explains the Information Age’s Facts of Life to Her Mother” This satire cuts deep & is good for more than a few sly smiles. “I’m getting older, and I’m not always gonna be around ...

I’m going to be honest in parsing my thoughts on Gardner Campbell’s “Cyberinfrastructure” essay: the whole time I was reading, I was thinking, Are you sure this is a student’s top priority? We are all involved in this course, ds106, because we already have an interest in digital identities & the intricacies of online architecture ...