Jersey Professor

Why Academics Suffer Burnout - Inside Higher Ed

Why Academics Suffer Burnout - Inside Higher Ed.

3-D Avatars Could Put You in Two Places At Once

Looking forward to the day when I can teach all my courses in a virtual classroom. No more long commutes!

Sears Redecorates Its Website for Halloween

Who knew that Sears could be so cool! Check out the Sears website [Psst: watch out for the zombies]

Briliiant Mash-up

Definitely deserves to go viral.

 

Here's Glenn Beck's response:

 

 

And here's  the artist's website.

Puppy Tweeting

The Dayton Daily News reports:

LOS ANGELES — So your dog follows your every move around the house. Now, when you leave home, you can follow your dog.

Puppy Tweets is an electronic dog tag with a sensor that you attach to your dog's collar.

It detects your pet's movements and sounds and sends a variety of tweets to a Twitter page you set up for your dog on a computer or smart phone. You can invite all your friends to be followers, too.

The new Mattel Inc. novelty is aimed at the pet-loving social network crowd, said spokeswoman Rachel Cooper.

Follow the link to read more.  And Here is the Mattel site for Puppy Tweets.

What's next? Favorite hydrants showing up on  Foursquare?

Future of Media Forum

 

I attended this yesterday. Pretty interesting.

Future of Media Forum

"Cyborg" is 50 years old.

Read about it here: The Man Who First Said Cyborg.

 

Incidentally, so is Fred Flintstone

I Am Woman; See Me Shop

In today's New York Times magazine, Peggy Orenstein weighs in about ads promoting female "empowerment."

Elsewhere in the paper, an article in the fashion and Style section reports that a research study  found that men who earn less than their wives are more likely to cheat. The same is true for men who make significantly more.

"The safety zone, apparently, is when women make 75 percent of what men earn, which sounds suspiciously like the national average of women’s salaries relative to men’s."

For the record, women earn, on average, 77 cents to a men's dollar. 

My Review of Aurelia's Oratorio

Aurelia's Oratorio at McCarter Theatre, Princeton, N.J.

Henry Jenkins and Sherry Turkle Together!

Talking about identity and participation in social media.

Go here:

http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/scratch:1231/videos/8131-scratchmit-friday-keynote-rethinking-identity-rethinking-participation