Have you had enough INFOgraphics and the wiggle effect.

'Big Data' doesn't just mean increasing the font size.

Something about this seems relevant to social media....  however, I cant seem to figure it out.  It will come to me...

This world is a great wiggle-effect. The clouds are wiggling. The waters are wiggling. The clouds are wiggling, bouncing. People— but people are always trying to straighten things out. You see, we live in a rectangular box, all the time; everything is straightened out. Wherever you look around in nature you find things often straightened out. They’re always trying to put things in boxes. Those boxes are classified. Words are made from some boxes. But the real world is wiggly. Now when you have a wiggle like a cloud, how much wiggle is a wiggle? Well, you have to draw the line somewhere, so people come to sorts of agreements about how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a “thing.” One wiggle. Always reduce one wiggle to sub wiggles, or see it as a subordinate wiggle of a bigger wiggle, but there’s no fixed rule about it.

- British philosopher Alan Watts

First Day of Class

As someone studying Management Information System I am interested in taking my twelve years of experience and proving to a peer group that I have the skills and tools to potentially be a revenue generating employee.

Knowledge and experience in a collegiate setting is a positive leg up, many questions were asked today in the beginning of the class today and I embarrassingly felt like I was answering a lot of the questions. Application of knowledge can be the difference between intelligence and wisdom.

[[A venn diagram. The left circle is labeled "things on the front page of a university website" and contains "campus photo slideshow," "alumni in the news," "promotions for campus events," "press releases," "statement of the school's philosophy," "letter from the president," and "virtual tour." The right circle is labeled "things people go to the site looking for" and contains "list of faculty phone numbers and emails," "campus address," "application forms," "academic calendar," "campus police phone number," "department course lists," "parking information," and "usable campus map." The only item in the overlapping section is "full name of school."]] {{Title text: People go to the website because they can't wait for the next alumni magazine, right? What do you mean, you want a campus map? One of our students made one as a CS class project back in '01! You can click to zoom and everything!}}

Knowing how to be relevant is the task of this class...



Hopefully we wont miss the mark like this.

Comic Corner - Trebuchet.

I have often found that its not the actual comic that makes me laugh but the hover text that is associated with the comic, today's "XKCD" is a prime example. The Comic is funny, but the below hover text is the meat of the joke.

If the flyers don't work, we'll switch to the LEAST subtle

method of informing a town of the existence of a trebuchet club.