News Genius was probably created as a way to speak truth to power, but it has incredible potential to punch down. I am not a highly paid journalist at a huge publication; I am a survivor with a blog.
This is a really challenging point for me (working at a similar annotation service). What's the line between speaking truth to power and silencing someone else's truth?...
News Genius puts comment sections in the margins, just as most publishers are taking them away to protect their writers.
This is the moment we are in. Your take on it could go either way.
if you have an interactive assessment application or virtual chemistry lab, it can be securely connected to an educational platform in a standard way without having to develop and maintain custom integrations for each platform.
from simple communication applications like chat, to domain-specific learning environments
Ed-tech need not scale.
But it does need to sustain...
Most startups fail.
Like most relationships.
A collaborative reading environment seems to me a fair foundation for dynamic and thoughtful interaction, which, in turn, holds the potential to mirror the kind of rich and complex dialogue we aspire to in a working democracy.
Great line!
The terms of how to expand your reading community are up to you.
While this might seem overwhelming, especially to teachers thinking about how to integrate h into their classes, such flexibility allows the tool and practice of web annotation to fit a lot of places in a curriculum.
has always
I'd quibble with this claim a bit. Certainly within the past century reading has been intensely private--the fireplace, comfy chair, etc. But in the long history of reading, especially at the beginning of print and before print, I believe reading was always already a social act.
to use a favorite Trump word, “disgusting.”
This is such an intense word. I feel like I really haven't heard it since middle school when kids used to police each other's differences with it.
The murder was grisly.
This reads a little like an Onion article. Are wild animals killing each other murderers?
This is a far less compelling use case. I imagine if I'm recreating the text of a poem I might as well do so in really any blogging or wiki platform rather than in Google Docs with DocentEDU.
More compelling is the actual changing of the published web resource--in this case the poetrs.org text.
Interestingly, both LMS and Google Classroom/Docs integration is not quite as integrated as you might expect.
In the case of the former, they simply show you how to create a link to a "Docent(ed)" text. In the case of the latter, you have to publish the Doc to the web just as you would for a Doc you wanted to annotate with h.
Last year, Yiannopolous attended London’s SlutWalk and held up a sign that said, “Rape Culture’ and Harry Potter. Both Fantasy.” He was later escorted off the premises.
Yikes.
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I.e. money.
They are tools like SPLOT, Wikity, Reclaim Hosting, Known, Github, and Hypothes.is to name a few.
Word!
if someone is willing to commit to talking through hip hop
I got this...
like the personal API
I need to learn more about this movement...
At least on dating apps everyone can agree that everyone on the app has the same desired goal: a relationship.
Interesting distinction. So we don't have the same goals in the algorithm of, say, an adaptive learning program?...
You can listen to the “I Love My Label” playlist on Spotify, but you should support artists by buying their music. Unless it's Metallica. Then share freely.
Badass.
counterintuitively perhaps less “personalized.”
But isn't the point that is is more (or more actually) "personalized"?
“Personalization” might sound like it’s designed especially for us; but “personalization” is an algorithm based on a profile, on a category, on a label.
This is a powerful argument. But could a proliferation of labels, enabled by computational power, better approach personalization?
I've been thinking about a similar idea in relation to the music industry/algorithm while reading the above: are Spotify/Netflix recommendations looking for the hit? Or are they looking for musical/filmic suggestions that will keep me individually as a customer? I'm much more compelled by that model than what's offered on top 40 radio or the megaplex.
What position are we in – artists, musicians, scholars, students, citizens – to challenge algorithmic decision-making, something that is even more opaque and “black-boxed.”
A better one, I would argue (as students and listeners, citizens, at least) than in the age of "the A&R man." Isn't the point of an algorithm that it learns from its audience?
Algorithms and analytics will “personalize” our world, we’re told. The problem, of course, is that the algorithms and the analytics also make everything sound the same.
I'd love to just accept this argument, but want there to be more evidence. No doubt there are more radical forms of self-education, but isn't it true to some degree that there is personalization in, say, adaptive learning programs?
What happens in the face of an algorithmic education to intellectual curiosity?
Fair enough, but is it either/or or both/and. I'm happy to be recommended a new band by Spotify, but ultimately will make the call if I like it or not, perhaps even clicking a reaction so that the algorithm gets better? Or is that a fantasy?...I'm also not going to be deaf to my friends recommendations, etc. that might also direct my musical curiosity.
I call myself a “serial dropout,”
Little by little the subversive features of the computer were eroded away: Instead of cutting across and so challenging the very idea of subject boundaries, the computer now defined a new subject; instead of changing the emphasis from impersonal curriculum to excited live exploration by students, the computer was now used to reinforce School’s ways. What had started as a subversive instrument of change was neutralized by the system and converted into an instrument of consolidation.
Wow, This is a great quote, and so apt in this new context of the rise of the LMS.
Once something sells, than we hear it and echoes of it again and again and again and again.
Love this sequence of slides:
No one – well, except my parents, I guess – knew how many times I played that 45 of Autograph’s “Turn Up the Radio,” how many times I rewound the cassette to replay Guns & Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle.” But now the software knows
This seems empowering to me (or potentially so)...
predict hit songs
Different from predicting what songs I might like.
a desirable location to sit back and consume it.
Long way to go here IMO.
“Twitter is live: live commentary, live conversations, and live connections.”
Granted this is a small user base, but for educators and academics, there needs to be an archival value to the content as well.
As a result, often the best way to find all the crazy, interesting things happening on Twitter on any given day is to read about it somewhere else.
This a big differentiator from Facebook, which has a more centripetal force. Is that the major problem?
the air of a docent showing off a collection of Donald Judd sculptures.
I love this line. Great writing.
the world’s chattering class
Is it a single class?
“It wasn’t that we were watching a puddle,” he says at Twitter’s offices in San Francisco. “It was that we were watching a puddle together.
This formulation seems like it could be used to salvage almost anything:
It wasn't that we picked our noses, it was that we picked our noses together. (#together)
It was that we killed your husband, it was that we killed your husband together. (#onthelam)
It wasn't that we disposed of the body in hydrofluoric acid that smelled like overripe plums (#tweetstorm #breakingbad)
It wasn't that we voted for Trump, it was that we voted for Trump together. (#trump2016)
Until 2015, Mr. Black was employed by the city’s Education Department, first as a special-education teacher and then as a librarian. He was honored in 2013 by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences for his exceptional work as a school librarian. Advertisement Continue reading the main story But just a year later, he lost his permanent teaching position and then was arrested and charged with bank fraud. His $76,706 salary was suspended, and he ended up in the shelter in Harlem.
How does this happen?
Mr. White was accused of killing Deven Black
Seriously?
He insults the office Abraham Lincoln once occupied by running for it with less preparation than most of us would undertake to buy a sofa.
Ouch. One can only imagine how Trump might redecorate the White House...
the proper thing to do in the face of demagogy is to go the other way
But is this true of democratically elected demagoguery?
additional cognitive load you’re adding for your users.
Arguable...
creating visual complexity in your design.
An exit sign creates visual complexity above a door. It also communicates something simple and essential.
add decision points for users,
I'd say there are more decision points in creating a password. Facebook is a click. Password is a "should I use the same one I use for Facebook and Twitter?..Oh, wait, this one asks for uppercase and symbol..."
Sometimes you log in with Twitter, sometimes with Facebook, sometimes with a username and password specific to that app. It’s hard enough to remember your username and password, let alone which service you should bloody use to log in.
According to who? If we're going on personal anecdote. I find it much easier to login with Facebook then remembering endless variations on the one password I user because of different rules for different sites.
Also, this is not just about remembering passwords. It's also--I would argue more--about signing up and getting started.
But if they help at all, why kill them? Even a 3.4% drop in failures is worth having them there, right? Maybe not.
So the whole discussion above is not the point of the argument?
Social login buttons can hurt brands
So can not ever being heard of or used.
test on JD_05
test on JD_04
test on JD_03
test on JD_02
test on JD_01
test on bridge
(If you've seen a picture of highlighted text on Twitter, you've seen a person who needs an annotation tool.)
Agreed that this is a kind of hack the Twitterati have invented to annotate. Twitter seems interested in building out related features.
? Which trends and technology developments will drive educational change?
Why not annotation?
Participants in #profchat often play multiple roles in their higher education worlds – as teachers, designers, researchers, and provocateurs.
I'm particularly interested in the difference--if there is one--between classroom and scholarly use cases for collaborative annotation. Are they of a continuum? Or does each require some specific features not necessarily required by the other?
open annotation.
I'd like to hear discussion around the term "open" here. How exactly are you using it @remiholden? To mean public as opposed to private?
For me, open has specific infrastructural connotations: it's about a variety of annotation clients like hypothes.is conforming to certain wider standards so that web annotation--like the web itself--is an interoperable system.
But I'm curious the degree to which that matters to teachers and learners. And why? We're using hypothes.is, which promises to conform to standards being developed by the w3c, but could DIIGO do the trick even though they're system (for now) is closed?
Republican candidates had sent certain messages to voters for years, and now the party hears them coming back from Mr. Trump translated, or perhaps decoded.
This captures a lot of what's going on with the GOP IMO.
6LYD
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In 1964, days before the presidential election which, incidentally, we lost, Ronald Reagan went on national television and challenged America saying that it was a "Time for Choosing."
Here's the video of Reagan's "Time for Choosing":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
And here's the annotatable transcript.
her own courageous voice.
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What the humanities need are large theories and bold concepts.
This seems a different definition of relevant that I normally work with and more high-minded than my own.
it would make sense to look to the sciences to see the ways in which a biology lab and the biology department function together.
Except funding? Though maybe in any case this is going to be a grant-based effort...
are they mutually exclusive
For some reason it's troubling to me that they could be, that they are not both part of some holistic, humanistic line of inquiry, both reaching for the same thing. But I suppose that's pretty essentialist.
even within the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Link?
the neoliberal bean counting destroying American higher education.
Interesting. Does DH really have that much power?
The feed is how stuff enters their content system. But the feed itself is outside, leaving it available for other services to use. It's great when this happens, rather than doing it via a WG that tend to go on for years, and create stuff that's super-complicated, why not design something that works for you, put it out there with no restrictions and let whatever's going to happen happen.
Interesting approach for hypothes.is to consider?
Library
Scribd test
They have also embedded five scavenger hunt-style clues among the texts
I love this.
Here they are, slightly edited:
This is pretty great general advice to annotators. Would love to share on hypothes.is/education.
form
forum?
I think not.
Well, at least not in this context with grad students. While I think the same ethos applies--you take notes for your own intellectual edification, not to be assessed formally--I think, say, an 8th grade class collaboratively annotating a novel, might benefit from a rubric and assessment.
And might learners be assessed favorably if they annotate with more than text (for example, if they link to related resources, or embedded images or GIFs)?
There are lot of different way to guide and assess annotators in a classroom. But, for me, the answer to this question is yes. Such an annotation explores and embraces the full lexical and grammatical possibility of the genre of composition. Just as I would encourage a student to vary sentence structure and word choice, I would encourage them to make rhetorical use of images and links in an annotation.
Some learners were initially concerned about publicly identifying with their open annotation, and subsequently owning the ensuing discussion.
In a way any different from the way one has to own their commentary on Twitter, which also seem required of the class?
moves the center from the designer’s imagination of the system to the designer’s imagination of the user of the system
Don Norman at Apple in 1993 (referenced by Peter Merholz[10]Peter Merholz. "Whither "User Experience"?". peterme.com. (1998): [http://www.peterme.com/index112498.html] ):“I invented the term [User Experience]
Apple invented the concept of "user experience." Makes sense.
Modernist
As anti-user.
what word do architects use for the people who dwell in the buildings they make?
Inhabitants?
rich commenting features
Including inline annotation!
rapid publication
?
antidisciplinary ethos
Shots fired!
The numbers simply don't work, unless the field unexpectedly narrows before March.
Aggghhh!!!
What Trump understands better than his opponents is that NASCAR America, WWE America, always loves seeing the preening self-proclaimed good guy get whacked with a chair.
Don't know that it's wrong but this whole article is pretty elitist.
the presidential election campaign is really just a badly acted, billion-dollar TV show whose production costs ludicrously include the political disenfranchisement of its audience.
One of several real zingers in this article.
the stones
Watermelon-sized stones, mind you.
The future first lady is a Slovenian model who, apart from Trump, was most famous for a TV ad in which she engaged in a Frankenstein-style body transfer with the Aflac duck, voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.
He steps to the lectern and does his Mussolini routine, which he's perfected over the past months.
When you win as much as he does, who the hell cares what anything means?
Great line. Could apply to (a certain kind of) celebrity generally.
because of feelings of belonging and obligation to the community.
However, our results do not point to any significant decrease in users’ wishes to continue using the site or recommend it to friends after being faced with a website’s requests to participate.
Very interesting. We are perhaps too shy about this at hypothes.is.
“lurkers” who passively consume content.
More via/direct linking on social media will allow this type of behavior.
comment options,
I'd be interested to drill down here. Is there a difference between page bottom comments and those made inline? Is there a difference between making such comments in personal notes/private groups/public?...
Content organization refers to features that require little effort from the user and that help fellow users receive useful information about the content. These features include the “like” button and options such as ratings (star ratings or a numerical scale) or tagging content with user-suggested keywords.
Hypothes.is lacks this first step in the ladder. We don't have a like button. Tagging doesn't seem as easy as it could be.
Maybe when we rethink page level notes, we might prioritize calling user to action there: tag the text; maybe offer a broad statement/description.
if we were to ask people whether clicking on a “like” button next to a short video clip is identical to leaving a detailed comment, the answer would probably be a clear “no.”
Sequencing calls to action from liking to commenting.
Social activity on a website can increase users’ commitment to the site and willingness to pay for its services.
So social engagement increases brand loyalty.
Seems like that could be a key to Medium's success.
When the tasks that users were prompted to engage in were not presented in increasing order of effort level, users tended to donate and participate less than when tasks were ordered that way.
Awareness of a user's lifecycle from exploring to adoption to megauser is key.
“calls to action,” issued at different points in time
To do this, website managers must understand the current user community, identify how they would like that community to evolve, and select the participatory features they offer — and the order of their introduction — accordingly.
This should inform product thinking at hypothes.is.
ladder of participation — a framework for strategic thinking about using site engagement to improve conversion
Interesting. Step by step conversion. Make it easy at first and let folks get more and more involved.
It’s why I ran (against her husband) in 1992. I wanted my vagina on that chair. Now I want Hillary’s there. I want to look back on my time. Even from right here. I went to the hardware store for a door. And I got it.
Badass.
So now information is spectacular too meaning that where it’s a little bit true that Hill was a Republican when she was a kid and she did say something stupid but specific about some black youth, so if we tweak it this way it will stick to the next accusation and soon we have a hovering ominous witchy form.
This is an elegant and horrifying description of the alchemy of modern media.
Bernie Sanders has written about women’s desires to be gang raped not while he was in high school but when he was a grown man.
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there’s a romance about who Kennedy was, but Johnson did the thing and I think Hillary Clinton will be like that.
Such an interesting analogy:
Clinton is to Johnson as Obama is to Kennedy?
a 1930s chill.
Subtle evocation of Hitler.
Because here in the great state of Texas we do things our way. That’s how a man runs his life.
It's all so gendered, isn't it?
willing to wait, you know, standing around being a good citizen, when suddenly it swerved to politics.
One would hope these weren't exclusive.
“She took Henry to the Apple store,” Olivia said, tearing open her box of squishy balls. Henry was her brother, age 12.
"Typical."
typical American teenage girl
Typical, how?
“My mom’s credit card is on there,” she said, “so we can just like get whatever we want. She never notices.”
"Typical."
when they went to science camp together at an Ivy League university
"Typical."
"Typical."
Now if we could only figure out how to fit "the egalitarian economic benefits of the postwar American economy were disproportionately available to white Americans because of officially sanctioned racism" on a hat.
you should be accountable for more than just sales.
I still don't get why people are so eager to celebrate Apple's position here. There is literally nothing stopping them from doing this kind of things themselves, while there are lots of legal obstacles for at least our government to do so. It's odd to me that people seem generally skeptical of the government to the point that they are happy to get in bed with corporations.
not wanting, even indirectly, to become an arm of the government.
Er, more so.
Mr. Cook says Apple’s ultimate goal is to provide customers “safety” from “attack.” But Mr. Cook does not seem to be talking about the kind of attack that took 14 lives in San Bernardino.
Damn!
First, the phone is owned by the County of San Bernardino, which issued it to Mr. Farook, an employee of its health department. The county, as Apple’s customer, has no problem having its phone opened.
Hadn't heard this point before.
If your deadline for changing your party affiliation has not yet come, re-register and vote for Rubio, even if, like me, you cannot stomach his opposition to marriage equality.
Texas makes this pretty easy.
The truth is that the vast majority of voting Americans think that Trump is unacceptable as a presidential candidate,
If this is true, part of me wants to just let it happen and then Hillary can trounce him in the general election and we can all rest assured that this is not a fascist country. But I'm too scared to actually wait that out...
why not let Trump pay for his own ads when he wants to broadcast foul and incendiary ideas?
I don't see how journalists can not cover the terrible things Trump says. Pretending they aren't said would seem to have its own dire consequences.
Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate.
The parallels are not insubstantial IMO.
In Texas, registered voters may vote in either political party’s primary; however, a voter may vote in only one party’s primary in each election cycle.
Maybe some good can come of living on a Blue island in a Red State.
Amazon thinks that what OER needs is a marketplace (albeit with the money removed). But OER are living documents, and what they need is an environment less like Amazon.com and more like GitHub
Very interesting...
We don’t know if content will be interoperable – that is, usable beyond the Amazon (Kindle) ecosystem – or if there’ll be integration with other software systems.
If not then it really wouldn't be truly "open."
a shift in power from governmental bodies to technology platforms as the locus of control.
I'm really broadly interested in this shift. Especially interesting given the other news about Apple last week--that is, their fight with the FBI over encryption software.
Robert Levine makes the argument in this NYTimes opinion that it should really be the government's job not private industry's to regulate privacy.
wicked
wc?
Regarding the major obstacles for higher education, blending formal and informal learning is considered one of the solvable challenges
Clearly also very important, if not more so, at the secondary level.
In higher education, the BYOD movement addresses the same reality; many students are entering the classroom with their own devices, which they use to connect to the institutions’ networks.
Hypothesis needs a robust mobile strategy to accommodate these users.
It was the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president showing off the demagogue's instinct for amplifying the angriest voice in the mob.
This really hits at what's so scary about Trump (for me). It's the hatred that Trump seems to thrive off. He brings out the worst in people and amplifies it.
“You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.”
I've found this to be incredibly helpful as style/psychology tip.
maybe publishing is not in fact dead, but like the proverbial Monty Python parrot, lying on the floor of its cage, eyes screwed tightly shut.
Having a legacy business configured around a website is now almost as much of a headache as the rumbling printing press, fuelled by paper and money.
Scary!
contexts
And texts!
I welcome a conversation about the extent to which (online) discussion of academic literature should be playful, and how best to create the conditions for such playful learning.
I'll start that conversation. I think you've already pushed well beyond my sense of playfulness--the example below especially introduces the idea of a treasure hunt that could really spark the engagement of fellow readers.
For me, playful begins with the informality and intimacy of reading with someone else. Your marginal comment may be a researched claim, but it can also be a joke, not necessarily less insightful, about the text.
I feel allowing students the space, to do what bjauw, especially at the non-graduate student level, can engender some joy around the process of reading and discussing texts.
One student recently wrote to me: This format [Hypothesis] is much better for me as far as encouraging participation. With the old discussion format that listed all the readings then posed questions for group discussion, I felt a bit overwhelmed by the long responses people offered and had a hard time jumping into the conversation. With Hypothes.is, I can offer my thoughts as I go, which I find to be much more effective in my assimilation of the information.
Love this:
Death to discussion forums! Long live annotation!!
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I had the opportunity to meet with Hugh McGuire
Side note: read Hugh's excellent essay "Why We Can't Read Anymore" on Medium if you've been wondering the same.
(SPOILER: This is how a lot of my day went: thinking things were going to be more complicated than they actually were.)
As a psychologist once told me--scolding me for being late to an appointment--there's no such thing as an accident. Maybe it was my subconscious desire to dig into the code that led me astray from how easy things really were.
Reading the detailed PressBooks plugin installation instructions was helpful but a bit daunting,
You can skip the rest of this section, which largely details my troubleshooting, if you'd rather just get to the tutorial part.
and hypothes.is has a WordPress plugin.
Which, ironically or appropriately, was created by the great Tim Owens of Reclaim Hosting.
a few greasy looking smears and next to them, written in soft pencil– by a beautiful girl, I could tell, whom I would never meet– “Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”
The poem climaxes with a description of a marginal note that the speaker remembers in a library book, and that he imagines was written by a beautiful girl. These final lines show the speaker imagining the note-writer leaving her message after becoming so enthralled with Holden Caulfield that she drops her sandwich on the book.
Both the original emotionally-wrought stain, and the speaker's emotional response to it, serve to demonstrate the power of reading, how deeply we can become engaged in the books we read. More broadly, marginalia is the perfect vehicle for that human relationship to literature.
I was just beginning high school then,
Just about the time many of us read J.D. Sallinger's Catcher in the Rye.
the one that dangles from me like a locket,
A lovely metaphor for memory: like a treasured piece of jewelry, one worn (as lockets often are) in memory of someone or something.
enwreathed with Blake’s furious scribbling.
William Blake took particular offense with Reynolds' Discourses on Art. The two had radically different views on the role of art, Blake believing that men were born with artistic knowledge while Reynolds arguing that such knowledge was only gained from experience.
Collins alludes to Blake's famously harsh annotations of Reynolds (see this article from the Andrew Graham-Dixon archive for more). On the title page of Discourses on Art, Blake wrote, “This Man was Hired to Depress Art.” Later he went further:
Having spent the vigour my Youth & Genius under the Oppression of Sr Joshua & his Gang of Cunning Hired Knaves Without Employment & as much as could possibly be Without Bread, The Reader must Expect to Read in all my Remarks on these Books Nothing but Indignation & Resentment. While Sr Joshua was rolling in Riches, Barry was Poor & Unemploy’d except by his own Energy; Mortimer was call’d a Madman, & only Portrait Painting applauded by the Rich & Great ... Fuseli, Indignant, almost hid himself. I am hid.
the pains of copying,
Before the 1440 invention of the printing press, books like the Gospel would have been painstakingly copied by hand.
Johannes Guttenberg, inventor of the press, is most famous for his definitive edition of the Bible--the copy below is at the NY Public library.
a bird singing near their window, or the sunlight that illuminated their page–
As the Lapham's Quarterly has blogged such marginalia ranged from the bizarre to the pornographic.
We
In this stanza, the poet includes a community of active readers in his ode to marginalia. These are active readers who engage the works under study with their own thoughts--just like the communities of hypothes.is! You are right now experiencing Marginalia 2.0!
And if you have managed to graduate from college without ever having written “Man vs. Nature” in a margin, perhaps now is the time to take one step forward.
It's true. This is a favorite theme of both high school and college English teachers. William Golding's Lord of the Flies would be a great book to note this theme in the margins.
rain down along the sidelines.
The sidelines here a metaphor for the margin of the page and continue the sports analogy begun in the opening lines of the stanza.
Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers, hands cupped around their mouths.
For the eager to learn students described in this stanza, Collins uses an extended sports analogy for their marginalia. They are fans shouting support of the favorite teams/authors.
The analogy of course begs comparison between the relative audiences for the type of written works described in the poem and popular sports.
Another notes the presence of “Irony” fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.
Refers to 18th century satirist Jonathan Swift's famous--and oft taught--A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick (1792).
It is indeed a classic example of "irony" in literature.
Students are more modest
The next two stanzas cover the marginalia of school children, a familiar image to high school and college English students. This stanza covers less enthusiastic students, who seem to just copy down what their teachers say about certain passages.
I remember once looking up from my reading, my thumb as a bookmark, trying to imagine what the person must look like
This is the first of two specific marginalia that the speaker of the poem recalls in the poem, the later one encompassing the final two climactic stanzas.
These lines also establish the speaker as a thoughtful reader, pausing to reflect not only on the books he is reading, but their marginalia as well. But it should be noted that he himself does not write in the book.
If I could just get my hands on you,
Here the removed interaction between the author and the reader/annotator is imagined metaphorically as a physical, somewhat brutal, one, the speaker reading such critiques as a physical threats.
Collins may be mocking marginalia here in the same way he mocks a certain kind of student's approach to poetry in "Introduction to Poetry":
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope<br> and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose<br> to find out what it really means.
what does a president sound like?
Just for fun, here's an annotatable transcript of Bill Pullman's speech from the movie Independence Day. It might be kind of interesting to look at this Hollywood version of a Presidential speech and answer this question as well.
the site builder side via a WordPress plugin.
Really, via JS embedded on the page, any page, which the WP plugin does for WP pages.
Part 3, Pressbooks dependencies:
I skipped this section for now, wanting to just have my book(s) on the Web for starters. Looks like we are definitely chaning .php files below though.
Navigate to: My Books → YOUR_SITE → Dashboard
I believe the names of these categories has changed in the current UI: "My Catalog" has replaced "My Books."
Part 1, WordPress generic:
But for starting another WP install, skip this section entirely if following my lead, enabling Reclaim/Instrallatron's automatic configuration of multisite at installation.
Pressbooks works with PHP 5.6.x and WordPress 4.4.1.
I was working in 5.5 but Tim Owens quickly allowed me the ability to upgrade within the cPanel.
Network Enable "Pressbooks."
All I did of the above was download the PB plugin. You can "Network activate" from the plugin installed page.
Do not install Pressbooks on an existing WordPress blog -- create a new WordPress install instead.
This is pretty important. But it's easy to add a second WP install in Reclaim's Installatron. In fact, you can select "multisite" in the process and skip all of Part 1 below, including editing php files.
Reubens engaged in thrift-store binges he likened to acts of rescue, filling his house, and several storage lockers, with salvaged treasure.
The treasure of "capitalist flotsam"...
As a kid, born in Peekskill, N.Y., and reared in Sarasota, Fla., he showed his action figures great reverence, taking care never to leave them facedown between play sessions.
I love slash identify with this detail.
But over the course of this campaign it feels as if there’s been a decline in behavioral standards across the board.
Isn't this always the case though?
Media Bias?
Check out this sketch from Saturday Night Live that mocks the news media for being uncritically in love with then candidate Barack Obama. There first and second questions for him are whether he is completely comfortable or if they can get anything for him.
truthiness
Stephen Colbert invented this term on the debut episode of his satirical political talk show, The Colbert Report.
Some studies see the rats pressing the dopamine lever 700 times in an hour.
...to the point of passing out from exhaustion/starvation.
For the past couple of years, my evening routine has been a variation on: get home from work, exhausted. Make sure the girls have eaten. Make sure I eat. Get the girls to bed. Feel exhausted. Turn on the computer to watch some (neo-golden-age-era) television. Fiddle with work emails, and generally piddle around while that golden-age-era TV consumes 57% of my attention. Be bad at watching TV and bad at getting emails done. Go to bed. Try to read. Check email. Try to read again. Fall asleep.
Sounds eerily familiar.
And so, starting in January, I started making some changes. The key ones are:No more Twitter, Facebook, or article reading during the work day (hard)No reading of random news articles (hard)No smartphones or computers in the bedroom (easy)No TV after dinner (it turns out, easy)Instead, go straight to bed and start reading a book — usually on an eink ereader (it turns out, easy)
Gonna steal this for 2016--most of it. ;
to find, and follow, a link to a good, really good, article in the New Yorker,
Not read.
They fight as though they are insurgents while they operate as though they are kings.
Great line. The n million dollar underdogs.
Worse, a collection of unicorns who see themselves as underdogs in a world where instability and inequality are rampant fail to realize that they have a moral responsibility.
I don't even think it enters into the daily conversations at these offices, at least not on the same terms as boyd, Barlow and others deploy "moral responsibility."
bubbalicious
Bubblicious?
Not only was everyone attached to their iPhones and Androids, but companies like Salesforce and Palantir and Facebook took over storefronts and invited attendees in for coffee and discussions about Syrian migrants, while camouflaged snipers protected the scene from the roofs of nearby hotels.
What a powerfully terrifying image!
a limited sphere of the World Wide Web
Contradiction in terms?
60 percent of humanity remains offline.
How wide the screen is
5
How far the projector is from the screen (throw distance)
18