This is the best Nigeria scam e-mail I've seen so far. ———- Forwarded message ———-From: Ministry of Foreign Affairs <no-reply@mfa.gov.ng> Date: 2010/12/23Subject: An Open Letter To All Scam VictimsTo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Federal Republic of Nigeria Lagos Liaison Office 13/15 Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, G.P.O Box 1727, Lagos. Re: An Open Letter To [...]
A lot has been written about WikiLeaks. Too much perhaps, which is why I’m a little reluctant to add what might seem like an obvious point. But it seems important to me, so here we go: The real importance of WikiLeaks is that it burst the security clearance bubble. A short time before cablegate happened, [...]
Three tips on using Google’s new ngrams word search.
台大人類學系演講 講者：Dr. P. Kerim Friedman（傅可恩）（國立東華大學民族文化學系助理教授） 講題：”Tomorrow the Community Shouldn’t Blame Us for Revealing Their Secrets”: Collaborative Filmmaking and Ethnographic Refusal. 時間：2010年12月10日（五）下午2：30-4：30 地點：台灣大學水源校區行政大樓人類學系201室（台北市思源街18號） ～～歡迎參加～～
I finally figured it out. The last time I traveled abroad for a conference I tried setting up a Google Calendar to schedule my conference events and it was a complete disaster, but this time finally go tit working and I thought I'd write a quick note about how I did it, including getting the [...]
Eight out of ten voters told exit pollsters that they are frightened by the economy; four out of ten report that their own families are still worse off than they once were. Columnists say that this explains why they turned on President Obama and deserted the Democrats. But that is not a solution to the [...]
Over and over again there are stories about people whose supposedly anonymous online identity is made public, or (as with this recent story about Facebook) people who thought their privacy was preserved by using a walled-garden like Facebook. It is time to face the fact that there is no such thing as online privacy. The [...]
Here is a brief rundown of the advantages and disadvantages of posterous, tumblr, and wordpress for teaching. Posterous is the easiest for having students sign up, because they don’t have to sign up. You can just enter their e-mail address and they will be able to post to the blog by e-mail and receive updates [...]
Another problem with Posterous vs. WordPress is that WordPress automatically shows the name of each person when they post. Posterous does not seem to do this for group blogs. The only work-around I could find was to have students "tag" their posts with their name. This can be done by e-mail by including ((tags: NAME)) in [...]
I'm trying Posterous for teaching this semester, as an alternative to WordPress or GoogleGroups. The main advantage is that setup is much easier than the other two options. And posting is via e-mail, so if students can use e-mail they can use Posterous. However, a big problem is with Chinese language support. While Posterous works [...]