Category Archives: New Media

Finding Your Center

By Agricola | August 28, 2009

What with the start of a new semester and exposure to a slightly different weltenschauung, a lot of "philosophy" has come my way. If you follow my tweets, you might have seen the pearls that recently came from one professor on the danger of using a pda or phone in class. Not for her the [...] Read more »

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Finding Balance

By Agricola | August 14, 2009

It’s important to find and achieve balance in your life…too little is as harmful as too much.  Thanks, then, to flowing data for this wonderful guide to finding the right balance for your social media needs. I think they’ve got it about right… Read more »

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The Death of Serendipity?

By Agricola | August 5, 2009

I found this quote while visiting a site that has been in my reader for a couple of years. Honestly, it has not had a continuous presence; I enjoy it for a while, remove its feed, and then some other great site mentions it and I am drawn, like the unsuspecting fly, into the nearly [...] Read more »

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Repaving the Information Highway (My Lane, Anyway)

By Agricola | April 8, 2009

This blog has been around since February, 2006. It happened that the local paper wrote an article about some local folks that had started to blog. Providentially, the bloggers mentioned happened to be writing about topics that caught our attention; the links opened the door to the blogosphere. Fumbling with bookmarks, and laboriously working through [...] Read more »

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Uncertainity and the Newspaper

By Agricola | March 14, 2009

 Clay Shirky sheds some light on the chaos that is the current state of the newspaper business. Lots of time, money, and thought has been applied by the problem, yet no solution has been identified, at least to the satisfaction of the owners and their employees. Shirky’s analysis of the situation demonstrates that there may [...] Read more »

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