"About 12 million Americans keep blogs, according to a survey released last July by thePew Internet & American Life Project. But even more people might become bloggers if blogs weren't so, well, public. After all, who really wants to share a high-school-reunion video with stockbrokers in Istanbul or teenagers in Tokyo?"

Here is a MIT Technology Review short article on the latest instantiation of the hundred dollar laptop:

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17416&ch=infotech

Highlights in no particular order:

1. Barbecue lunch Friday

2. Locke Carter's schema of frontier scholarship modes

3. Rick Branscomb's characterization of the gaps between outr students and ourselves in terms of cognitive styles

4. Learning that the Sophie beta comes out in a month

5. Matt Barton's talk on wikis

5a. Virginia Kuhn on "suspicion of non-alphabetic literacy"

6. Going to Rudy's barbecue with colleagues--more BBQ

7. Hallway conversations

8. Coming changes in Kairos

9. Dean Rehberger and Dan Anderson on sound recording and podcasting (workshops). Tons of links and stuff from both workshops.

I'm in Dean Rehberger's audio workshop Thursday morning. I feel like I am trying to drink from a firehose. There is a ton of good stuff I need to know. Dean has lots of terrific information, great handout packet, a zillion links, and even a combo mic/earphones set. Way cool.

What lkinds of things are possible? Loads. According to to Dean: Digital history projects, NPR-type documentary, usability studies, a "show", etc. Another idea: have students use Audacity or something like and read their papers into a file, then listen to it. They (and we) can note the ways they revise the paper while reading it aloud, and after they listen to it.

My colleague Rob Dornsife just published the following in _Radical Pedagogy_:
"Coming to (Digital) Terms: The Work of Art in the Age of Non-Mechanical Reproduction" at http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue8_1/dornsife.html.