Generally speaking, my online presence (that presence that produces, not necessarily consumes) falls into three categories.
Professional/Academic
These are posts, retweets, reflections that center around education and technology. In short, the realm of misterv.net.
Family
My wife and I maintain an active family blog. The blog started as a way to document our journey as [...]
The NYTimes is running a great piece called “How the US lost out on iPhone jobs.” It’s essentially a piece on capitalism, globalization and comparative advantage (sort of…that actually might be the most debatable part of the article…as comparative advantage usually is).
A section that stood out:
At the same time, [...]
As both a technology guy and a (former) social studies teacher, watching the SOPA/PIPA debate and struggle is fascinates me. These are bad bills. And they deserve to die – for obvious reasons.
Yet it’s the way in which Wikipedia, Google and the like are fighting this bill that intrigues me. I once [...]
Slate is running a great future-tense piece on how society reacts to new technology. Briefly, Brian Johnson qualifies this reaction into four steps:
It will kill us all! It will steal my daughter! I’ll never use it! What are you going on about?
I’m usually on step 4…although I am very suspicious that my [...]
I do work anywhere in the district. It can get busy sometimes. Here’s my virtual world (screenshot) while having 2 teachers visit at the same time.
I love it.
The quote under the RSS feed reads:
The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to crime instead.
