Jersey Professor

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?

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

Dueling Books: Making Us Stupid or Creative Disruption?

So is the digital media making us stupid as Nicholas Carr maintains, or, is it as Nick Bilton says, simply “creatively disrupting” our brains.

In his book titled, The Shallows, Carr argues that there are cultural and intellectual consequences and there aren’t positive.

On the other side, Bilton, the lead writer for the NY Times Bits Blog  points out that all major technological innovations, from the telephone on, have been met with anxiety and suspicion.

Who’s right? Probably both of them, with the truth somewhere in between, Technology giveth and technology taketh away. And when one generation replaces another, we barely remember what was lost and how life was previously.

Links to:

Slate.com article on I Live in the Future and Here's How It Works

Bilton's Website

Slate.com's article on The Shallows

Nicholas Carr's website

Business
Online Giving Meets Social Networking
By AMY WALLACE
Published: September 4, 2010
The actor Edward Norton and his partners started Crowdrise, with a mix of edginess and good-humored competition, to bolster online giving.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/business/05proto.html