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One year as an ex-academic

03-May-12

I realized the other day that it’s been just over a year since I quit graduate school, and by extension gave up on a life in academics. It was around the middle of April 2011 when I submitted my resignation letter. (I was spending the month teaching a course at my alma mater, and I [...]

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2011

01-Jan-12

A bunch of stuff happened in 2011. I quit graduate school I traveled a bit: WordCamp Phoenix, API Workshop at MITH, Jamaica, NC barbecue roadtrip, THATCamp I co-taught a class about WordPress in the graphic design program at Queens College I proved myself the 76th best crossword solver in the universe I taught an intro [...]

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The GPL is for users

02-Sep-11

The General Public License (aka the GPL) is for users. This observation seems so obvious that it needn’t be stated. But for those who develop software licensed under the GPL (like WordPress and most related projects), it’s a fact that should be revisited every now and again, because it has all sorts of ramifications for [...]

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Dropout

21-Jun-11

I’m a grad school dropout. A little over a year ago, I left my full-time instructional technolgy gig at Queens College. At the time, I cited my languishing thesis as one of my reasons for leaving. Through the summer and fall of 2010, I put in an honest effort toward my dissertation. It was certainly [...]

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Hub-and-spoke blogging with lots of students

20-Aug-09

Inspired by some of the blog posts that have recently come through my reader on the topic of classroom blogging, I thought I’d throw my hat in the ring. In particular, I wanted to respond to some of the concerns raised in the comments to Mark Sample’s post regarding the “hub and spoke” method, where [...]

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