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Category Archives: Technology
What’s in a tagline? My blog’s identity: Version 4.0
I’m developing a new course at MSOE called “SS 3700 Digital Society.” To say I’m excited is to understate my enthusiasm for this topic. As a political science major who took computer programming classes in the late 1970s using a … Continue reading
Posted in Higher education, Learning, Life, Popular culture, Science, Teaching, Technology, Writing, blogging
Tagged blogging, curiosity, digital society, lifelong learning
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April “Fake News” Fools
These videos have been around for over a year but didn’t receive as much attention as I’d have expected. Given the strong resemblance to “pranks” in their inherent trickery and potential for malicious intent, it seems appropriate to highlight them … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Political Analysis, Popular culture, Technology, Television
Tagged AI, April Fools, digital manipulation, fake news, fake video
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Discovering Twitter’s “Bookmarks”
Maybe you’re not a Twitter user, in which case you’re probably not going to be interested in today’s blog post 🙂 But if you do use Twitter, maybe like me you didn’t know about Twitter’s bookmarks. The bookmark feature has … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Popular culture, Technology
Tagged facebook emoticons, likes, Twitter, twitter bookmarks, twitter favorites
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20 gallons’ worth of network security?
Saw this truck parked outside an office building in downtown Milwaukee last Friday morning. I don’t know what business these hats’ owner works in, but given the “white hats,” I figured network security was as good a guess as any … Continue reading
Posted in Milwaukee, Photography, Technology
Tagged Downtown Milwaukee, network security, white hat
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The Weather Channel’s amazing new “Immersive Mixed Reality”
The Weather Channel this week introduced new technology that will add astonishing visual effects to their broadcasts. Check out this Co.Design article, with video, where you can see a demo in which the anchorman barely escapes being crushed by a … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, News, Popular culture, Technology, Television
Tagged augmented reality, special effects, The Weather Channel, virtual reality, visual effects
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Unleashing the potential of VR (virtual reality)
Virtual reality (VR) is going to shape itself into an art form that is quite different from contemporary cinema. We can’t really predict yet how things will turn out, although my bet is that movies as we know them are here … Continue reading
Posted in History, Learning, Life, Movies and film, News, Popular culture, Teaching, Technology
Tagged Auschwitz, Germany, history, museum exhbits, Nazi prison guards, virtual reality, VR, war criminals, World War II
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More interesting stuff about pigeons and people
After my post on dovecotes ran a few days ago, my friend, colleague, and fellow blogger Sally Cissna published a really fascinating blog post about the relationship between humans and pigeons a century ago. Her post contains several old newspaper … Continue reading
Posted in Food, History, Popular culture, Technology
Tagged agricultural history, Commercial fishing history, homing pigeons, pigeons, texting, World War I
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