Originally posted on Hapgood: A lot of people have been tweeting and emailing me and DM-ing me the recent Guardian piece by Iran’s “blogfather”. You should read it yourself, but in short it is the story of a man sent to jail for blogging in Iran at the height of blogging’s influence and coming out…

Audrey Watters (Source: The Functions of Education-Technology Criticism) Really good work of writing about the often times over promotion of educational technology over real actual learning. Much appreciated on my part and worth a read if you find yourself in the unenviable position of questioning what is we actually DO here in higher ed.

Wow, now that’s a happy ending if I ever read one. I remember Jon’s earlier posts about his pain. Glad to know he found a resolution and it’s working for him. It gives me hope too! Sometimes there is a medically viable solution that’s better than living with the pain. And it sounds like Jon…

One Bright Idea: University of Rochester River Campus Libraries’ Digital Academy Presents. Lots of exposure to lots of different tools.

Despite all the good will towards Google Now, Google did have Google Reader at one time. It was the premier web-based RSS reader and everyone migrated to it after Bloglines hit the wall and shutdown. Now I’m on my 3rd reader: Feedly. I hope this helps with the hard core adherents to Google Apps. But…

Another day and another friend of my wife meet up. This time we went to West side of Tokyo to a little community center. My wife’s friend instructs a class in Fulongon. And I got drafted to participate so I did my best, gambatte. I was surprised to discover I could cross my legs over…

We met with Mariko’s college friend to attend an exhibit of old art. It’s the oldest known example of fanciful artwork of anthropomorphic animals. What’s really odd is it was in the collection of an old Buddhist Temple in Kyoto, Japan. http://www.tnm.jp/modules/r_free_page/index.php?id=1707 It’s notable for art historians and pop culture types who follow manga (the…

I’m traveling in Japan and wanted to take advantage of my WordPress site and document my travel. Here now an essay on how I love NHK Morning shows. They do more international stories than their US counterparts. There was a short segment on India (I think as I’m not Japanese proficient). But I feel I…