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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Down a gopher hole
I was curious about this Gopher thing. I had heard of it before, but I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone actually using it, even back in the day. Here’s an image I used to use with classes when talking … Continue reading
Mapping the course
One of the things we’re doing in The Internet Course is mapping out ideas and concepts from the students’ research, visualizing connections between them and how they relate to the major topics of the course. I sort of stole the mapping … Continue reading
Map happy
The class has come up with a lot of great concept maps so far. It is interesting to look at all the different approaches too. There’s no one right way to do it, although some end up being more useful … Continue reading
The future of communication
Future, past and present are all zones on the continuum of history. There is a trend we can see throughout human history that more people sharing more information more widely, more rapidly, leads to more and more advances in the … Continue reading
History
One of the things about history is that it is ongoing. That is not only because of new events, but also because of the reinterpretation of old events. Many of the Internet History articles we found were a little old, late … Continue reading
Talking CRAAP
We have started color coding the entries in the reading list – red, yellow and green. Red means find a different reading. This could be because someone else got it first, or because it didn’t stand up to scrutiny. Green … Continue reading
Bravo to Amber!
… for putting the first reading on the list: “Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility?” This article makes a good test case for what is good enough for the list. Two big points from the CRAAP test are Authority … Continue reading
Internet on training wheels
I liked the things Jim said in class: “People had to be taught how to use the internet.” When AOL was the big thing (Is it still a thing?), people used to snark on it as “Internet on training wheels.” … Continue reading
Putting a Cmap into a blog post
There are a few different ways to put a Cmap into a blog post. If I wanted to be lame, I could make the map into an image either by taking a screen shot or exporting the map as an … Continue reading
Playing with CMAP
Here I’m experimenting with mapping things out with Cmap Tools. I used Vannevar Bush’s seminal article “As We May Think” as the central concept and connected some related things, like a little about the author and what he envisioned, and … Continue reading