Look what 17 of the University’s top employees did this weekend. I’ll have to ask someone in the history department if they’ve gotten more money this semester so that they can make copies of handouts for students – the budget wouldn’t allow it last semester.
I found this Flash mind reader on Blogdex (on which I am now included). Took me a while to figure it out, but it’s a cool little trick. A nice… variation. 
Lesson two learned in the wonderful world of blog research: someday I’ll have to break down and learn CSS.
Planning for the possible/probable new media showcase that the New Media Society will be holding next year has gotten me to thinking – could Maine be a suitable location for a show the size of MacWorld Expo or Comdex? I’m not even talking about the quality of the idea; I’m talking about the feasibility.
Bangor held the National Folk Festival last year, which had an attendance estimated somewhere between sixty and a hundred thousand people. Granted, that’s about the population of Eastern Maine as a whole. If Apple suddenly said, “Yeah, we want to have MacWorld 2004 at the Bangor Auditorium in Bangor, Maine,” could it be done?
The showcase by the NMS, in my opinion, could be as big as we want to make it. If it did, in fact, become Maine’s MacWorld, it could be a great boost to everyone involved; the University, the new media program, the students, the faculty, the state itself. For the showcase I’ve been mulling over speakers, exhibits, workshops… everything, really. It has a good possibility of being an awesome show if we do everything right. Who knows; in ten years, we could be beating the attendance of Comdex.
UMaine and the state itself have often been leaders in technological initiatives, and that spans back much farther than Angus King’s MLTI (laptop plan). It could be another way of stressing this to the citizens of the state and to people coming to visit. But could UMaine and eastern Maine in general handle it?
Hampden Academy once again has a web site. A pretty good one, too. So many new names…
So does the math team… kinda.
And yes, Laura, there’s an HA JCL page.
You know when some people say it’s snowing like a snow globe outside? That’s exactly how it looked this afternoon. Itsa brizzer!
I went to the Union for a few minutes and I was glad to see that a bunch of people had laptops there. Good to know that the University’s prices and the wireless is being used.
Everyone rise up and welcome the wonderful and talented Morgan Webb to the world of non-LiveJournal blogging… and to the world of personal domain names.
I’ve created a new category for me to keep track of my thoughts on the Web itself. Basically, this will probably turn out to be a show of the M@ineSites side of me; what I think should happen on the Internet, what I think’s possible, and just general ideas.
I’m doing a presentation in new media coming up soon about blog styles. Doing research got me to thinking: it looks like the successful blogs – the popular ones that are the most fun to read and the most interesting all at the same time – strive on some sort of theory or prediction. I chose ‘theory’ as the name of this category for lack of a better term; I think it’s basically a way to brainstorm what could happen. SOme of the entries will make no sense at all. If anyone ever wants to build on my thoughts or actually try something I’m thinking, just leave me a comment to let me know what you’re up to; I’d love to know, but please by all means take any suggestions I have to give and run with them. I’ll probably be doing my fair share of development of them, too. So skip over them if you want, read them if you have time, have fun.
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