http://karik.wordherders.net/ en-us kkru@mail.rochester.edu 2006-10-31T13:53:51-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/006457.html I'm teaching two sections of an undergraduate honors seminar next semester at the University of Maryland, which I'm really excited about. Here's the course description: HONR298T: Rip, Mix, and Burn: Social Creativity Online When the British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor... 6457@http://karik.wordherders.net/ teaching 2006-10-31T13:53:51-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/006174.html The defense was last Friday, July 28. I'm feeling a predictable mix of relief, exhaustion, and elation. After four days, "Dr. Kraus" doesn't sound stale yet--I'm still reveling in the novelty of it. Expect to see a little more... 6174@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2006-08-01T12:41:39-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/005346.html The Economist reports on a Yale University researcher who has designed a computer game that requires participants to invent a primitive language: The birth of a new language is such a rare event that scientists who want to watch it... 5346@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2006-01-12T16:34:21-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/005322.html I've blogged a fair amount of my teaching the last couple of years, but have said far less about my research. In an effort to counterbalance that lopsidedness, I thought I'd post a formal abstract of my dissertation, which is... 5322@http://karik.wordherders.net/ research 2006-01-07T12:21:56-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/005218.html In retrospect, I wonder if this helps explain Jimmy Wales' reluctance to characterize Wikipedia as an idyllic example of emergent behaviour during the talk he gave last week at the Institute for International Economics. No mention on boingboing yet--I'd like... 5218@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2005-12-07T12:37:39-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/005204.html Sean Watkins, technical director for the Art and Visual Technology Program at George Mason University, is also an MFA student in my Research Methodologies course. He wrote to tell me about a new use he's discovered for the Wayback Machine,... 5204@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2005-12-03T17:53:17-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/005199.html (Cross-posted to ElectraPress) Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, spoke today at the Institute for International Economics in Washington DC as part of a lecture series organized by the Center for Global Development. Superficially a summary of Wales's remarks, this post... 5199@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2005-12-01T17:40:18-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/004219.html No, not my favorite Kirschenbaum. Named after its developer, Evan Kirshenbaum, this ASCII version of the International Phonetic Alphabet was originally designed as a workaround to the problem of rendering native IPA symbols in plain text. Pretty cool, huh?... 4219@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2005-06-02T09:07:11-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/004182.html The philosopher John Dewey on knowledge production: Old ideas give way slowly, for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply engrained attitudes of aversion and preference. Moreover, the conviction persists—though history shows it... 4182@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2005-05-27T21:37:18-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/004175.html While blogisms like "blogosphere," "social software," "link whore," "technorati," "comment blogging," and the like have become common currency, I've yet to see a term for the frisson that comes from flesh-and-blood encounters with people whom you follow on a regular... 4175@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2005-05-26T23:04:07-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/004166.html My submission to the 60 second story project. Since the project is part of the Contagious Media Showdown , I wanted to play with ideas of transmission and mutation. My touchstones were things like Telephone, spoonerisms, the Translation game, even... 4166@http://karik.wordherders.net/ transmission 2005-05-24T23:12:07-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/003932.html . . . just long enough to welcome Claire at Still Just Writing to Wordherders. Her inaugural entry is lovely, if you haven't had a chance to read it yet. And a brief word on my blogging hiatus: I'm furiously... 3932@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2005-04-08T14:44:58-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/003162.html Does IP legalese anywhere stipulate that only human-authored works are copyrightable or patentable? Not according to John Koza, an early pioneer of genetic programming, who is banking on software overtaking wetware in the knowledge-production race. Koza cites the following language... 3162@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2004-12-05T21:33:58-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/003150.html Colophon of a 12th-century Beatus manuscript from Silos: If you do not know what writing is, you may think it is not especially difficult . . . Let me tell you that it is an arduous task: it destroys your... 3150@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2004-12-02T15:06:48-05:00 http://karik.wordherders.net/archives/002929.html James Ginzewski, the same scientiest who brought you the world's smallest abacus, has been in the recording studio of late: "UCLA scientist James Gimzewski positioned a sensitive instrument called an atomic force microscope over a cell to try to detect... 2929@http://karik.wordherders.net/ 2004-10-31T23:03:12-05:00