« Hmmm.... An Ethical Dilemma | Main | Machinima Friday (Flashback Edition) »

February 22, 2007

A Digital Dartboard?

Over at the course blog for CyberCultural Studies, I've started a "briefly noted" series I'm calling a "Digital Dartboard," because it gives the students ideas about digital culture to put on their dartboard. Each Dartboard post will include three or four odd, amusing, disturbing, and/or otherwise provocative tidbits about digital technology and culture that you (and, ideally, my students) may find stimulating.

The awesome aleatoric power of the dartboard (which is similar to, but independent of, the outstanding oracular power of the Magic 8 Ball), cannot be overestimated, especially when one considers that I am making my students write ten (gasp!) short analyses of digital culture over the course of the semester. I know, I know. I am cruel.

So, check it out. The first entry in the dartboard is here, and I'll post links to later entries as they get uploaded.

Finally, this weekend, the Spouse, some friends, and I will be driving down to Boston, where we will experience TOMB. I'll post about it when we get back. Even (especially?) if it stinks, it should be interesting. I may even be able to wrangle an article or a conference paper out of it.

Super, ultra, I-really-mean-it-this-time finally, you may have noticed that I'm (still) having problems with comments on this blog. The spam is killing me, and that's even after I've set the security level to Shoot On Sight. So, bear with me. I'm not willing to require TypeKey (even though it's free), because some of my very favorite people have had problems with it. This means that sometimes your comments may not show up right away. They may take a few hours (or days) to show up.

Posted by reparent at February 22, 2007 11:30 AM