Entries from May 2007

May 25, 2007

"There’s nothing that’s wrong with Kentucky politics that can’t be fixed by what’s right about it."

Sadly, Mark Nickolas (of BluegrassReport.org) is leaving our fair state at the end of the month. As one of the pioneers of political blogging in Kentucky, I have to say his voice will be sorely missed. In a post earlier today, Mark had this to say about Kentucky politics:

There’s nothing that’s wrong with Kentucky politics [...]

May 24, 2007

Globalization and Homogenization

I was over at Warren Ellis‘ website this morning and came across this video of a Spider Jerusalem rant from Transmetropolitan (which I’m using again for PS 240 this fall). I’m teaching PS 212 Culture and Politics of the Third World this summer, and as I prepare for the globalization portion of that course, this [...]

May 24, 2007

Eerie similarities to Student Course Evaluations

Sometimes I suspect that this is what is really going on in the heads of many of my students during class as the semester goes on.

May 23, 2007

How to be a Human Aggregator

Whether you are a hard-core blogger, information blogger or just a person with a healthy sense of curiousity about the world (information addict ), learning to be an efficient user, reader and processor of RSS feeds is an essential skill. In the following video (tip of the hat to MicroPersuasion), Human Aggregator robert Scoble explains [...]