About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Taking chances
We took some chances with the way we set up The Internet Course. The skeletal syllabus in particular was a big risk. It meant that the whole course hinged upon the students putting the effort into finding, analyzing, synthesizing and … Continue reading
Everything old is new again
We were talking about how everything old is new again in The Internet Course yesterday. E-commerce is a new thing, with a huge economic impact, but it’s also kinda like the 21st century version of the Sears & Roebuck catalog. … Continue reading
Impacts
I used to work in printing. The internet had some impact on the way we did things at my company, but nothing major. When we were being bought out by one of our competitors, I started working on an advanced … Continue reading
Eversion
I started writing this a few weeks ago and never got around to finishing it enough to be postable until now. I mentioned William Gibson’s work before. He said something about the “increasingly atemporal nature of music” (may or may … Continue reading
Ed on TED
Snowden gave a talk at TED about privacy and security and IP. I’m fascinated by his rolling robot presence – like Max Headroom 2.0. I wonder what that might mean for the future of the internet?
Digital serendipity
After Tuesday’s discussion of digital identity, in an amazing bit of serendipity, Bon Stewart tweeted about her blog post on that very subject. She talks about creating a secondary identity for research purposes and then having to come to terms … Continue reading
Digital Identity
A lot of last week’s discussion touched on issues of digital identity, which is cool because it gives the course an extra level of flow and cohesion. There seemed to be quite a bit of concern over privacy, which is … Continue reading
Privacy and openness
One of the things I like about the topics in The Internet Course is that they can be interpreted pretty broadly. This week we’re looking at privacy and openness. They can be seen as in opposition to each other, or … Continue reading
OSS
Open source software came up in the discussion of intellectual property and fair use in The Internet Course. I wasn’t really expecting it to come up at that point, but I was planning on bringing it into the discussion of … Continue reading