Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Sidebar Follies 

Back when I got paid to think about Media Literacy all day, the blog was chock-full of pop-culture analysis snapshots. These days, I teach teachers and students how to use technology thoughtfully, and I mostly blog about my family, and my environment.

But the mediamind hasn't gone away entirely. I'm still a culture vulture, a social scientist among the geekculture elite. For example, I still tag and save the braingasp tidbits. And, as always, I still post 'em on the sidebar, just a quick scrolldown to the right.

No one reads it, of course. But maybe you should.

Now playing on my rollover-for-commentary, delicious-driven tinyblog:

• Kent State's Facebook Ban for Athletes. A day after the initial discussion of Kent State's new policy, Slashdot's second-tier summary post reads like a blog entry, weaving a clear spectrum of the basic arguments raised in their previous thread discussing how, why, and whether it was right for Kent to ban use of the popular Facebook tool for their student athletes.



• Kid Music + Indie Cred = Kindie Music. Salon finally finds what some of us have known for years: that there's a whole genre of music for parents and kids who refuse to live with the sappy stuff. Thanks to Clea of ((sm))all ages for the linkback after I pointed out she was mentioned in the article -- hope it brought in a ton of new "listeners"!



• An amazingly hilarious billboard urging people to like, stop, like, sounding stupid.

Wanna check out the rest of the tinyblog? Scroll down and stay to the right for my ongoing compendium of all things medialit, informatic, and just plain technofascinating. Or, see it in its original form over at del.icio.us.

posted by boyhowdy | 9:23 PM |

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